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Quantum key distribution research team
Steve McLaughlin
Steven W. McLaughlin received the B.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1985, the M.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1992, all in electrical engineering. From 1992-1996 he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He joined the School of ECE at Georgia Tech in September 1996 where is now Vice Provost for International Initiatives and Ken Byers Professor of ECE. As Vice Provost he is responsible for Georgia Tech’s global engagement and is the point person for international initiatives in research, education, and economic development. In 2005, he was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was also Deputy Director of Georgia Tech - Lorraine - the European Campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology - in Metz, France from 2006-2007. He has held positions at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, AT&T Bell Labs, and Eastman Kodak.
He was the first Georgia Tech recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) where he was cited by President Clinton “for leadership in the development of high-capacity, nonbinary optical recording formats.” He also received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for this work. He received (with Dr. David Warland at UC-Davis) the Information Storage Industries Consortium Technical Achievement Award in 2002 for “pioneering work in the development of multilevel optical disk storage technology”. From 1999-2003 he was also the Principal Scientist for Calimetrics where this work was commercialized (Calimetrics was acquired by LSI Logic in 2005). He received the Friend of the Graduate Student Award in 2002 from the GT Graduate Student Association.
His research interests are in the general area of communications and information theory. His research group has on-going projects in the areas of turbo, LDPC, and constrained codes for magnetic and optical recording; FEC and equalization for wireless and optical networks; quantum key distribution, wireless and RFID security; and theory of error control coding. He has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences and holds 26 US patents. He has served as the research and thesis advisor to more than 50 students at the bachelors, masters, doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and served as an Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transaction on Information Theory. He also served as the Publications Editor for that journal from 1995-1999. He co-edited (with Sergio Verdu) Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1999). He has also served on the IEEE Publications Activities Board (1998-2001) and is a former Secretary of the IEEE Atlanta Section (2000).
GT website : http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-s...
email adress : swm@ece.gatech.edu
Paul Voss
Dr. Voss received the B.A. degree in Humanities with an emphasis in French Literature from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1994. In 1997, he received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He was awarded the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 2000 and 2003, respectively. After pursuing postdoctoral studies at Northwestern University, he joined the Georgia Tech faculty in January 2006.
His research has involved experimental and theoretical study of optical amplifiers that make use of nonlinear mixing to provide gain. These amplifiers, called fiber parametric amplifiers, can also wavelength convert signals. In addition, they can also serve as sources of entangled photons for quantum key distribution. Dr. Voss has identified theoretically and verified experimentally the fundamental limits on the performance of these devices for optical communications and quantum key distribution. He also developed ultrasensitive detection techniques for photon counting and quantum optical homodyne tomography. His research at Georgia Tech involves the development of novel and improved devices and systems for optical communications and for quantum communications.
In his short career, he has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications and conference presentations and holds 1 patent.
GT website : http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-s...
email adress : voss@ece.gatech.edu
Quyen Dinh Xuan
Quyen Dinh Xuan was born and grown in a coast town of Hai Phong City, in northern Vietnam. In 2000, he obtained an undergraduate degree in physics at Hanoi National University of Education - Vietnam, where he learned quantum mechanics and has improved his experimental skills in High Temperature Superconductors.
In 2007, he obtained a Ph.D. in physics from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - France for his work in optoelectronics and photon counting experiments, and for his elementary realization of a secure optical transmission system using two close wavelengths (110 MHz gap) at 1550 nm for data and synchronization in one-fiber channel. he was hired in October 2007 and work from then, as a post-doc by Prof. Abdallah Ougazzaden and Prof. Paul L. Voss, for a French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) project in Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution experiments.
email adress : quyen@georgiatech-metz.fr
Zheshen Zhang
Zheshen Zhang was born in China and earned his Bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. During his undergraduate study, he participated in several research projects and published three papers on quantum cryptography in international journals.
In Fall 2006, he became a Ph.D student of Georgia Institute of Technology and got involved in Georgia Tech-C.N.R.S UMI 2958 international laboratory. As a Ph.D student, Zheshen Zhang has authored or coauthored five conference publications and given two conference talks so far. Zheshen Zhang’s current research interests include quantum information/communication and nonlinear optics theories and experiments.
email adress : zzhang@georgiatech-metz.fr
Keywords
cryptography
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Steve McLaughlin
Steven W. McLaughlin received the B.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1985, the M.S.E. degree from Princeton University in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1992, all in electrical engineering. From 1992-1996 he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He joined the School of ECE at Georgia Tech in September 1996 where is now Vice Provost for International Initiatives and Ken Byers Professor of ECE. As Vice Provost he is responsible for Georgia Tech’s global engagement and is the point person for international initiatives in research, education, and economic development. In 2005, he was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was also Deputy Director of Georgia Tech - Lorraine - the European Campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology - in Metz, France from 2006-2007. He has held positions at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, AT&T Bell Labs, and Eastman Kodak.
He was the first Georgia Tech recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) where he was cited by President Clinton “for leadership in the development of high-capacity, nonbinary optical recording formats.” He also received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for this work. He received (with Dr. David Warland at UC-Davis) the Information Storage Industries Consortium Technical Achievement Award in 2002 for “pioneering work in the development of multilevel optical disk storage technology”. From 1999-2003 he was also the Principal Scientist for Calimetrics where this work was commercialized (Calimetrics was acquired by LSI Logic in 2005). He received the Friend of the Graduate Student Award in 2002 from the GT Graduate Student Association.
His research interests are in the general area of communications and information theory. His research group has on-going projects in the areas of turbo, LDPC, and constrained codes for magnetic and optical recording; FEC and equalization for wireless and optical networks; quantum key distribution, wireless and RFID security; and theory of error control coding. He has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences and holds 26 US patents. He has served as the research and thesis advisor to more than 50 students at the bachelors, masters, doctoral and post-doctoral levels.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and served as an Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transaction on Information Theory. He also served as the Publications Editor for that journal from 1995-1999. He co-edited (with Sergio Verdu) Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1999). He has also served on the IEEE Publications Activities Board (1998-2001) and is a former Secretary of the IEEE Atlanta Section (2000).
GT website : http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-s...
email adress : swm@ece.gatech.edu
Paul Voss
Dr. Voss received the B.A. degree in Humanities with an emphasis in French Literature from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah in 1994. In 1997, he received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He was awarded the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in 2000 and 2003, respectively. After pursuing postdoctoral studies at Northwestern University, he joined the Georgia Tech faculty in January 2006.
His research has involved experimental and theoretical study of optical amplifiers that make use of nonlinear mixing to provide gain. These amplifiers, called fiber parametric amplifiers, can also wavelength convert signals. In addition, they can also serve as sources of entangled photons for quantum key distribution. Dr. Voss has identified theoretically and verified experimentally the fundamental limits on the performance of these devices for optical communications and quantum key distribution. He also developed ultrasensitive detection techniques for photon counting and quantum optical homodyne tomography. His research at Georgia Tech involves the development of novel and improved devices and systems for optical communications and for quantum communications.
In his short career, he has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications and conference presentations and holds 1 patent.
GT website : http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-s...
email adress : voss@ece.gatech.edu
Quyen Dinh Xuan
Quyen Dinh Xuan was born and grown in a coast town of Hai Phong City, in northern Vietnam. In 2000, he obtained an undergraduate degree in physics at Hanoi National University of Education - Vietnam, where he learned quantum mechanics and has improved his experimental skills in High Temperature Superconductors.
In 2007, he obtained a Ph.D. in physics from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan - France for his work in optoelectronics and photon counting experiments, and for his elementary realization of a secure optical transmission system using two close wavelengths (110 MHz gap) at 1550 nm for data and synchronization in one-fiber channel. he was hired in October 2007 and work from then, as a post-doc by Prof. Abdallah Ougazzaden and Prof. Paul L. Voss, for a French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) project in Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution experiments.
email adress : quyen@georgiatech-metz.fr
Zheshen Zhang
Zheshen Zhang was born in China and earned his Bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. During his undergraduate study, he participated in several research projects and published three papers on quantum cryptography in international journals.
In Fall 2006, he became a Ph.D student of Georgia Institute of Technology and got involved in Georgia Tech-C.N.R.S UMI 2958 international laboratory. As a Ph.D student, Zheshen Zhang has authored or coauthored five conference publications and given two conference talks so far. Zheshen Zhang’s current research interests include quantum information/communication and nonlinear optics theories and experiments.
email adress : zzhang@georgiatech-metz.fr
Keywords
cryptography
