Invited speakers

Massively parallel, three-dimensional photon counting: a versatile tool for quantum experimentalists and consumers

Edoardo Charbon (SM’00 F’17) received the Diploma from ETH Zurich, the M.S. from the University of California at San Diego, and the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1988, 1991, and 1995, respectively, all in electrical engineering and EECS. He has consulted with numerous organizations, including Bosch, X-Fab, Texas Instruments, Maxim, Sony, Agilent, and the Carlyle Group. He was with Cadence Design Systems from 1995 to 2000, where he was the Architect of the company's initiative on information hiding for intellectual property protection. In 2000, he joined Canesta Inc., as the Chief Architect, where he led the development of wireless 3-D CMOS image sensors. Since 2002 he has been a member of the faculty of EPFL, where is a full professor since 2015. From 2008 to 2016 he was with Delft University of Technology’s as Chair of VLSI design. Dr. Charbon has been the driving force behind the creation of deep-submicron CMOS SPAD technology, which is mass-produced since 2015 and is present in telemeters, proximity sensors, and medical diagnostics tools. His interests span from 3-D vision, LiDAR, FLIM, FCS, NIROT to super-resolution microscopy, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and cryo-CMOS circuits and systems for quantum computing. He has authored or co-authored over 300 papers and two books, and he holds 21 patents. Dr. Charbon is a distinguished visiting scholar of the W. M. Keck Institute for Space at Caltech, a fellow of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society, and a fellow of the IEEE.

Time-correlated single photon counting wide-field Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy

Klaus Suhling develops and uses advanced multidimensional fluorescence imaging techniques such as Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging (FLIM) to understand the properties and interactions of macromolecules in the life sciences. After obtaining his PhD in the field of fluorescence spectroscopy from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, he held several post-doctoral positions in biology, chemistry and physics departments, mostly at Imperial College London, working on fluorescence microscopy and the development of photon counting techniques. He joined King’s College London in 2003 and was a Lecturer and a Reader before being promoted to Professor of Physics in 2014. He is a member of the Biological Physics & Soft Matter research group. Building up on a strong tradition in Biophysics at King’s, the research in this group employs cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches to tackle the most exciting unresolved scientific challenges in this highly interdisciplinary field.

Demonstrating quantum advantage with practical photonic systems

Eleni Diamanti is a CNRS research director at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She received her Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2000 and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, USA, in 2006. She then worked as a Marie Curie post-doctoral scholar at the Institute of Optics Graduate School in Palaiseau, France, before joining the CNRS in 2009. Her research focuses on experimental quantum cryptography and communication complexity, and on the development of photonic resources for quantum networks. She is a recipient of a European Research Council Starting Grant, vice director of the Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, steering committee member of the French regional and national networks on Quantum Technologies, and elected member of the Board of Stakeholders of the European Public Private Partnership in Photonics.

Integrated Homodyne Detection for Large Scale Silicon Quantum Photonics

Jonathan Matthews is a Senior Lecturer in Quantum Technology at QETLabs (University of Bristol) where he leads a quantum enhanced sensing activity. His early research efforts focused on integrated quantum photonics, e.g. silica waveguides to control photonic quantum states for primitive quantum information demonstrators and higher refractive index contrast waveguide arrays for multi-photon quantum walks. His current efforts focus on discrete and continuous variables strategies to perform quantum sensing and imaging, and the development of CV capabilities in silicon photonics. His research is supported by an EPSRC early career fellowship, an ERC starting grant and the Quantic quantum-imaging hub.

Quantum dots at telecom wavelengths for single- and entangled photon sources

Peter Michler got his PhD degree from the University of Stuttgart 1994. He worked as post-doc at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart from 1994 to 1995. From 1995 to 2003, he was a research group leader at the University of Bremen, and from 1999 until 2000 he spent a one-year research stay at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2003 he became a professor and since 2006 he is the head of the Institute for Semiconductor Optics and Functional Interfaces at the University of Stuttgart, concentrating research on quantum dots, non-classical light sources and semiconductor lasers.

Deterministically fabricated quantum dot – waveguide systems for on-chip quantum optics

Stephan Reitzenstein received his diploma degree and his PhD degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2000 and 2005 respectively, both in Physics. In 2010 he habilitated with studies regarding optical properties of low dimensional semiconductor systems. Since 2011 he is full Professor at TU Berlin, Germany and holds the Chair of Optoelectronics and Quantum Devices. In 2014 he received a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant. His current research interests are in the area of quantum optics in semiconductor nanostructures. S. Reitzenstein is member of the German Physical Society where he is presently the spokesman of the semiconductor division.

Quantum source and frequency conversion technologies based on integrated nanophotonics

Kartik Srinivasan is a Project Leader in the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor and Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research is in the field of nanophotonics, with a current focus on topics in photonic quantum information science, nonlinear optics, and metrology. He has been awarded the NIST Sigma Xi Young Scientist Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, and the US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal. He is a Fellow of the OSA.

Self-driving cars and lidar

Simon Verghese leads the lidar team at Waymo, a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around. Before Waymo, he worked for 18 years at Lincoln Laboratory in technical and leadership roles on teams developing interplanetary laser communications, airborne laser radars, and other government programs. He holds MS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of California, Berkeley.