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Appendix D: Biographical Information
Pages 77-93

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From page 77...
... Dr. Wadley has invented and commercialized several vapor deposition technologies that enable the growth of novel thin films and coatings, and numerous multifunctional cellular materials including those that support stress while also serving as impact energy absorbers, heat exchange media, electrochemical power storage systems, or shape morphing structures.
From page 78...
... , and in 1997 served as president of MRS. He has also chaired a Gordon Research Conference on thin films, and chaired the Commit tee of Visitors for the NSF's Division of Materials Research.
From page 79...
... While at IBM, he was most recently in the quantum computing hardware group, focusing on qubit integration and fabrication, materials, and processes. Prior projects included a large effort on DNA nanopore devices and many years working on interconnect materials, device integration and fabrication, and ­nanometer-scale films and devices, including basic work on the size, effect, and development of novel sputtering technologies, several of which are in broad manufacturing ­usage at virtually all semiconductor manufacturers.
From page 80...
... Dr. Thomas is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer and is passionate about promoting engineering leadership and student design competitions.
From page 81...
... His group pursues research in basic optical and quantum phenomena in materials for applications in novel photonic devices that enable a new generation of information processing systems for communication, computation, and sensing.
From page 82...
... She is a member of the NAE, the Metallurgical Society (TMS) , AIAA, ASM International, SME, SWE, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Tau Beta Pi and is a commissioner to the Accredi tation Board for Engineering and Technology.
From page 83...
... Gerhardt has worked with a variety of ceramic materials such as d­ ielectric insulators, ionic conductors, and ceramic superconductors in bulk and thin film form, as well as with intrinsic conducting polymers. Her work also extends onto non-electronics-related materials such as fiber and particulate reinforced composites and metallic alloys that are used for wear applications and as components in the hot sections of gas turbine engines.
From page 84...
... Dr. Levi's expertise in m ­ aterials processing includes physical vapor deposition, pow der processing and solidi­fication technologies, fabrication processes for inorganic composites, and synthesis of inorganics from precursors.
From page 85...
... In this role, he was responsible for the technical oversight of DoD science and technology activities in materials, processes, and structures ­associated with current and future defense systems, and for technical assessments associated with materials manufacturing and engineering applications. He was executive secretary of the White House Committee on National Security, and member and chair of the White House Nanotechnology Subcommittee, among other National Science and Technology Council assignments.
From page 86...
... This included the areas of air vehicles and propulsion, aerodynamics, aircraft structures, gas turbine engines, control systems, and ship- or air-launched weapons. She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in October 2006.
From page 87...
... Dr. Awschalom's group explores optical and magnetic interactions in semiconductor quantum structures, spin dynamics and coherence in condensed matter systems, macroscopic quantum phenomena in nanometer-scale magnets, and implementations of quantum information processing in the solid state.
From page 88...
... JERRY CHOW is a physicist who conducts research in quantum information processing.
From page 89...
... She is also interested in network information and communication theory, and applications of ideas therein to developing scalable realizations of photonic quantum computing and a quantum communication network. PAT GUMANN is manager of Quantum Processor and System Integration, Quantum Computing at IBM Research.
From page 90...
... Dr. Hemmer's research areas are in solid materials for quantum optics, especially "dark resonance" excitation, materials and techniques for resonant nonlinear optics, phase-conjugate-based turbulence aberration and compensation, spectral hole burning materials and techniques for ultra-dense memories and high-temperature operation, quantum computing in solid materials, quantum communication and teleportation in trapped atoms, holographic optical memory materials, smart pixels devices, optical correlators, photorefractive applications, atomic clocks, and laser trapping and cooling.
From page 91...
... In 2000, Dr. Monroe became professor of physics and electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, where he pioneered the use of single photons to couple quantum information between atoms and also demonstrated the first electromagnetic atom trap integrated on a semiconductor chip.
From page 92...
... Since 2009, his group has investigated the use of ultrafast laser pulses for speedy quantum entanglement operations, has pioneered the use of trapped ions for quantum simulations of many-body models related to quantum magnetism, and has proposed and made the first steps toward a scalable, reconfigurable, and modular quantum computer. WILLIAM OLIVER is jointly appointed a Lincoln Laboratory Fellow in the Ad vanced Technology Division and a Professor of the Practice in the MIT Physics Department.
From page 93...
... More specifically, Dr. Sergienko research focuses on quantum information, quantum communication and cryptography, quantum networking, and linear-optical quantum computing.


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