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Bane Vasić is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and mathematics at the University of Arizona and a director of the Error Correction Laboratory. He is one of the inventors of the soft error-event decoding algorithm, and the key architect of a detector/decoder for Bell Labs' data storage read-channel chips regarded as the best in industry.
His pioneering work on structured low-density parity check (LDPC) error correcting codes based on combinatorial designs has enabled low-complexity iterative decoder implementations. Structured LDPC codes are today adopted in a number of communications standards and data storage systems and are a prime candidate for quantum error correction. Dr. Vasić' work on codes on graphs, trapping sets and error floor of iterative decoding algorithms has led to decoders for the binary symmetric channel with best error-floor performance known today.
He is a founder of Codelucida, a company developing advanced error correction solutions for flash memories. He is an IEEE Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, da Vinci Fellow, and a past Chair of IEEE Data Storage Technical Committee.
Job Titles:
- Covert Communications and Sensing, Quantum Security in Optical Systems, Quantum Signal Processing
Anderson was a member of the research team that first created and observed quantized vortices in BECs in 1999, and since then has been primarily involved in experimental, numerical and theoretical studies of vortex creation, manipulation and dynamics in BECs.
joined the University of Arizona Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory in the Spring of 2019. His research focuses on space instrumentation, wavefront sensing and control, and high-contrast imaging of extrasolar planets and debris disks. Dr. Douglas is the lead payload engineer and project scientist for the Deformable Mirror Demonstration Mission, a CubeSat under construction to test technologies for imaging of Earthlike exoplanets by demonstrating adaptive optics in space using a microelectromechanical deformable mirror. As a postdoc since 2016 in the MIT Prof. Kerri Cahoy's Space Telecommunications, Astronomy, and Radiation Laboratory, Ewan has also worked on new approaches for sensing wavefront errors in space telescopes using lasers on small formation flying spacecraft as guide stars, techniques for managing systems engineering requirements that have been applied to the NASA WFIRST mission, and is leading a team to conduct coronagraphic observations of the Epsilon Eridani star system with the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS coronagraph.
Dr. Douglas graduated from Tufts University with a bachelors in Physics in 2008. He worked for a year at the Hanford Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory before attending graduate school at Boston University, where he received a PhD from the Astronomy Department in 2016. In graduate school he worked with Prof. Supriya Chakrabarti on sounding rocket missions demonstrating technology for interferometric coronagraphy of nearby star systems, built a portable lidar for measurement of forest leaf area and carbon content, and tested methods for characterization of Earth's ionosphere using extreme ultraviolet spectroscopy. Since 2006 he has taught in the University of Arizona's week long Astronomy Camp program for high school students on Kitt Peak and Mount Lemmon.
Jennifer Barton received the BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and University of California Irvine, respectively. She worked for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) on the Space Station program before returning to The University of Texas at Austin to obtain the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 1998. She is currently Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences, and Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Arizona. She has served as department head of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Vice President for Research, Interim Vice President for Research, and is currently Interim Director of the BIO5 Institute, a collaborative research institute dedicated to solving complex biology-based problems affecting humanity.
Barton develops miniature endoscopes that combine multiple optical imaging techniques, particularly optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy. She evaluates the suitability of these endoscopic techniques for detecting early cancer development in patients and pre-clinical models. Additionally, her research into light-tissue interaction and dynamic optical properties of blood laid the groundwork for a novel therapeutic laser to treat disorders of the skin's blood vessels. She has published over 90 peer-reviewed journal papers in these research areas. She is a fellow of SPIE- the International Optics Society, and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Quantum Optics and Open Quantum Systems. Quantum Fluctuation Phenomena, Collective Atom - Photon Interactions, Waveguide and Cavity QED / 520 - 626 - 2915
Job Titles:
- Physics of Cold Atoms, Study of Spin Squeezing, Quantum Feedback Control, Quantum Simulation, and Tomography
Job Titles:
- Professor at the University of Arizona, Colle
Saikat Guha is a Professor at the University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, starting July 2017. He is also the Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks (CQN). Saikat received his Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1998, and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2017, he worked for Raytheon BBN Technologies, where in his most recent role as Lead Scientist, he led various sponsored projects funded by DARPA, ONR, NSF, DoE, and ARL, in topics surrounding quantum enhanced photonic information processing. He was one of the founding members of the Quantum Information Processing group at BBN, formed in 2009.
Saikat's research interests are in the quantum limits of optical communications and quantum-secured communications (rate) and optical sensing (resolution)-both in the evaluations of these fundamental limits using tools from quantum information and estimation theory, as well as in the associated circuit synthesis problem, that of trying to piece together familiar classical and non-classical optical building blocks to realize transmitters and receivers needed to attain those limits. He is interested in the design of quantum repeaters for long-distance entanglement distribution. He has also been lately interested in continuous variable photonic quantum computing, and quantum networks.
Saikat received the Raytheon 2011 Excellence in Engineering and Technology Award, Raytheon's highest technical honor, for work his team did on the DARPA-funded Information in a Photon program. He was a co-recipient of an honorable mention in NSA's 2016 Cybersecurity Best Paper Award for a paper on Quantum-Secure Covert Communication on Bosonic Channels, which he supervised. He was a recipient of Anita Jones Entrepreneurial Award 2013 from BBN Technologies, a co-recipient of a NASA Tech Brief Award for his work on Phase-conjugate receiver for Gaussian-state quantum illumination, and received the Raymie Stata Award for outstanding performance as Teaching Assistant for Signals and Systems, Fall 2005, from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT. Saikat was a member of India's first team to the International Physics Olympiad at Reykjavik in 1998, where he received an Honorable Mention and the European Physical Society (EPS) Award for the experimental component. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. Prof. Guha also has appointments with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona.