Home People Dirk Englund People FacultyFaculty AI+DFaculty CSFaculty EEFaculty EmeritusLecturers Leadership Staff Instructors Professor, [EE and AI+D] englund@mit.edu (617) 324-7014 Office: 36-525 Website Research Areas Electronic, Magnetic, Optical and Quantum Materials and DevicesNanoscale Materials, Devices, and SystemsOptics + PhotonicsQuantum Computing, Communication, and Sensing Latest News More News February 20, 2026 Results You Can Touch One year into the new 6-5 degree program, students are discovering the joy of hands-on electrical engineering. October 24, 2025 A “seating chart” for atoms helps locate their positions in materials The DIGIT imaging tool could enable the design of quantum devices and shed light on atomic-scale processes in cells and tissues. June 12, 2025 Photonic processor could streamline 6G wireless signal processing By performing deep learning at the speed of light, this chip could give edge devices new capabilities for real-time data analysis. December 3, 2024 Photonic processor could enable ultrafast AI computations with extreme energy efficiency This new device uses light to perform the key operations of a deep neural network on a chip, opening the door to high-speed processors that can learn in real-time. October 1, 2024 New security protocol shields data from attackers during cloud-based computation The technique leverages quantum properties of light to guarantee security while preserving the accuracy of a deep-learning model.
