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Mark M. Wilde, born in Metairie, Louisiana, USA, joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University as an Associate Professor in July 2022. He previously held an Associate Professorship in Physics at Louisiana State University with a joint appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Computation and Technology from 2018-2022, and he was an Assistant Professor of Physics from 2013-2018. His academic journey also includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Computer Science at McGill University from 2009-2013. Wilde earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2008, an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Tulane University in 2004, and a B.Sc. in computer engineering from Texas A&M University in 2002. He has held visiting appointments at prestigious institutions including the University of Cambridge and Stanford University. Wilde is the recipient of several accolades including the National Science Foundation Career Development Award and the AHP-Birkhauser Prize for remarkable contributions in the field. His research interests encompass Quantum Shannon/information/communication theory, quantum computation and algorithms, quantum optical communication, and quantum computational complexity theory, among others.
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