Dirk Englund

MIT EECS | ORCID: 0000-0002-1043-3489
Format: NSF Biosketch

Professional Preparation

2006–2008 MS in Electrical Engineering — Stanford University
2003–2008 PhD in Applied Physics — Stanford University
Jun–Aug 2003 Summer Program — International Space University (ISU)
2002–2003 in Applied Physics — Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
1998–2002 BS in Physics — California Institute of Technology
1998 High School Diploma — Westlake High School

Appointments and Positions

2024– Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022–2025 Member — DARPA Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC)
2020– Deputy Director — NSF ERC Center for Quantum Networks
2020– Co-lead — MIT-MITRE-Sandia National Laboratory Quantum Moonshot Program
2019– Member — MIT Lincoln Laboratory Campus Interaction Committee
2018–2024 Associate Professor (tenured) — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS
2018– Senior Technical Staff (part-time) — Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy)
2017– Scientific Advisor — Lightmatter, Dust Identity, QuEra Computing, Quantum Network Technologies (QNT)
2016–2018 Associate Professor (untenured) — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS
2013–2016 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Microsystems Technology Laboratory
2010–2013 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics — Columbia University
2008–2010 Postdoctoral Fellow — Harvard University
Physics

Products

(a) Products Most Closely Related to the Proposed Project

  1. Dirk Englund; Yuqin Duan; Qiushi Gu; Yong Hu; Kevin Chen; Matthew Trusheim. Atomic Localization Fluorescent Microscopy. Research Square. (2025)
  2. Dirk Englund; Chao Luan; Alexander Sludds; Chao Li; Ian Christen; Ryan Hamerly. Demonstration and Non-volatile Trimming of a Highly-Parallel, High-Capacity Silicon Microdisk Transmitter. Research Square. (2025)
  3. Dirk Englund; Chao Luan; Ronald Davis III; Zaijun Chen; Ryan Hamerly. Single-Shot Matrix-Matrix Photonic Processor based on Spatial-Spectral Hypermultiplexed Dispersion. Research Square. (2025)
  4. Dirk R Englund. Compiling Machine Intelligence on Optoelectronic Systems. (2024)
  5. Dirk R. Englund; Saikat Guha. The Center for Quantum Networks, part I: building a quantum network using spins and photons. (2022)

(b) Other Significant Products

  1. Dirk R Englund. Quantum Networks with Artificial Atoms in Scalable Photonic Circuits: Architecture Designs to Proof of Concept Systems. 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2021. (2021)
  2. Dirk Englund; Linsen Li; Lorenzo De Santis; Isaac Harris; Kevin Chen; Ian Christen; Matthew Trusheim; Yixuan Song; Yihuai Gao; Carlos Errando-Herranz; Jiahui Du; Genevieve Clark; Mohamed Ibrahim; Gerald Gilbert; Ruonan Han. Heterogeneous integration of spin-photon interfaces with a scalable CMOS platform. Research Square. (2023)
  3. Dirk R. Englund. Large-scale quantum photonics for computing and communications. (2021)
  4. Dirk Englund. Scalable Quantum Networks with Artificial Atoms. IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics In Defense Conference (RAPID). (2021)
  5. AxQM: A Textbook-Scale Benchmark for Formal Proof Synthesis in a Library of Finite-Dimensional Quantum Mechanics. (2026)