| Institution | Field of Study | Degree & Year |
|---|---|---|
| Westlake High School | High School Diploma; 1998 | |
| California Institute of Technology | Physics | BS; 2002 |
| Technische Universiteit Eindhoven | Applied Physics | ; 2003 |
| International Space University (ISU) | Summer Program; Jun–Aug 2003 | |
| Stanford University | Applied Physics | PhD; 2008 |
| Stanford University | Electrical Engineering | MS; 2008 |
| Harvard University | Physics | Postdoctoral Fellow; 2010 |
Dirk Robert Englund is a full Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a principal investigator of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) and MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratory.
Englund also serves as part-time senior technical staff with the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, and he is a scientific member of DARPA's Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC).
Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002, winning the D.S. Kothari Prize in Physics for research in quantum optics and biophysics supervised by Prof. Hideo Mabuchi. Following a year at TU Eindhoven as a Fulbright Fellow (with Prof. Bert Koopmans), he began graduate studies at Stanford in 2003, earning an MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics in 2008 (supervisor Prof. Jelena Vuckovic). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2010 (supervisors Prof. Hongkun Park and Prof. Mikhail Lukin), when he joined the faculty of Columbia University as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics. He joined the MIT faculty in 2013.
Englund's research focuses on devices and systems to study, control, and use complex information processing systems: large-scale quantum computing, quantum networks, and machine learning/artificial intelligence accelerators. His research addresses these challenges by a full-stack approach spanning algorithms to large-scale photonic systems, including programmable optics, large-scale control of atoms and spins, to precision measurement and control.