Prof. Dirk Englund

Prof. Dirk Englund

Associate Professor, MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Email
englund@mit.edu
Websites
Prof. Englund's EECS Page
Prof. Englund's Research Page
Admin. Assistant Contact
Janice Balzer
balzer@mit.edu
Roles and Accreditations
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Dirk Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002. Following a Fulbright year at TU Eindhoven, he earned an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics in 2008, both from Stanford University.

He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2010, when he started his group as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University.

In 2013, he joined the faculty of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Dirk's research focuses on quantum technologies based on semiconductor and optical systems.

Recent recognitions include the 2011 PECASE, the 2011 Sloan Fellowship in Physics, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2017 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award, and the OSA's 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal, a Bose Research Fellowship in 2018, and a 2020 Humboldt Research Fellowship.

Current Projects