MATHQCI 2008 Madrid/Workshop

Speech's Title:
"Robust Quantum Decoherence Control"

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California

Contact Information
Office: SSC 609
Phone: (213)740-0198
E-mail: lidar@usc.edu

LINKS
Personal Website

Biographical Sketch
Daniel Lidar has been an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering at USC since July '05. He also holds a cross appointment in Physics. He received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1997. He was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley from 1997 to 2000, and an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2005. His research focuses on control of quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on quantum information processing. Lidar is the founding Director of the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology. He is the recipient of a number of awards and honors, including a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and the Young Explorer Award given by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research for the top 20 researchers in Canada under age 40. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE. Lidar is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical research articles, and holds two patents.

Education

B.S. Mathematics and Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1989

M.S. Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1995

Ph.D. Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, 1997

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Associate Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering-Systems, Cross Appointment in Physics, University of Southern California, 7/1/2005-

Associate Professor Cross Appointments in Physics and Mathematics, University of Toronto, 7/1/2006-6/30/2006  

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry. Cross appointments in Physics and Mathematics., University of Toronto, 9/1/2000-6/30/2004  

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 9/1/1997-8/31/2000  

Funded Research
Contracts and Grants Awarded

EMT: Spin Bus For Quantum Information Processing (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Lidar, Daniel, $70,953, 8/1/2005-7/31/2008  

Quantum Computational Complexity of Spin Glasses (Army Research Office), Daniel Lidar, $123,341, 8/1/2005-6/30/2008  

Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry (Sloan Foundation), Daniel Lidar, $35,751, 9/16/2003-9/15/2007  

Tailored Quantum Error Correction (DARPA), Daniel Lidar, $62,362, 7/1/2005-6/30/2006  

Proposals Submitted

National Science Foundation, Awarded, Lidar, Daniel Amihud, $400,000, 10/1/2007-9/30/2010  

HRL Laboratories, LLC, Awarded, Lidar, Daniel Amihud, $405,000, 4/1/2007-3/31/2010  

Army Research Office, Awarded, Lidar, Daniel Amihud, $30,000, 10/1/2007-9/30/2008  

IQI-Caltech, Awarded, Daniel A. Lidar, $5,000, 10/2007  

IQC-Waterloo, Awarded, Daniel A. Lidar, $5,000, 10/2007  

VSoE-USC, Awarded, Daniel A. Lidar, $5,000, 10/2007  

Other Funded Research

College, VSoE, Zumberge., CQIST: Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology. Approved as an Organized Research Unit between the College and VSoE. , $95,000, 2006-2007   

Other Research

U.S. Patent 7,018,852 entitled Methods for Single Qubit Gate Teleportation. Inventors: L.-A. Wu, D.A. Lidar, and A. Blais. Assignees: D-Wave Systems, Inc. (Vancouver, CA), The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto, CA). Approved: March 28, 2006. , Spring 2007   

U.S. Patent 7,184,555 entitled Quantum computation. Inventors: K.B. Whaley, D.A. Lidar, J. Kempe, D. Bacon. Assignee: Magiq Technologies, Inc. (New York, NY). Approved: February 27, 2007. , Spring 2007   

Publications
Journal Article

Akulin, V. M., Kurizki, G., Lidar, D. A. (2007). How to control decoherence and entanglement in quantum complex systems?. Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. Vol. 40 (9)
Dasgupta, S., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Decoherence-induced geometric phase in a multilevel atomic system. Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. Vol. 40 (9), pp. S127-S142.
Friesen, M., Biswas, A., Hu, X. D., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Efficient multiqubit entanglement via a spin bus. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 98 (23)
Grace, M., Brif, C., Rabitz, H., Walmsley, I. A., Kosut, R. L., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Optimal control of quantum gates and suppression of decoherence in a system of interacting two-level particles. Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. Vol. 40 (9), pp. S103-S125.
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Performance of deterministic dynamical decoupling schemes: Concatenated and periodic pulse sequences. Physical Review A. Vol. 75 (6)
Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A., Mitchell, M. (2007). Simple proof of equivalence between adiabatic quantum computation and the circuit model. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 99 (7)
Mohseni, M., Lidar, D. A. (2007). Direct characterization of quantum dynamics: General theory. Physical Review A. Vol. 75 (6)
Sarandy, M., Lidar, D. A. (2006). "Abelian and Non-Abelian Geometric Phases in Adiabatic Open Quantum Systems",. Phys. Rev. A 73, 062101-10, (2006). Vol. 062101-10 (2006)
Lidar, D. A., Shabani, A., Alicki, R. (2006). "Conditions for Strictly Purity-Decreasing Quantum Markovian Dynamics". Chemical Physics 322/------------. Vol. 82-86 (2006).
Alicki, R., Lidar, D. A., Zanardi, P. (2006). Internal consistency of fault-tolerant quantum error correction in light of rigorous derivations of the quantum Markovian limit. Physical Review A. Vol. 73 (5)
Biswas, A., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Robust transmission of non-Gaussian entanglement over optical fibers. Physical Review A. Vol. 74 (6)
Glenn, D. R., Lidar, D. A., Apkarian, V. A. (2006). Quantum logic gates in iodine vapor using time-frequency resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering: a theoretical study. Molecular Physics. Vol. 104 (8), pp. 1249-1266.
Grace, M., Brif, C., Rabitz, H., Walmsley, I., Kosut, R., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Encoding a qubit into multilevel subspaces. New Journal of Physics. Vol. 8
Lidar, D. A., Shabani, A., Alicki, R. (2006). Conditions for strictly purity-decreasing quantum Markovian dynamics. Chemical Physics. Vol. 322 (1-2), pp. 82-86.
Mohseni, M., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Direct characterization of quantum dynamics. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 97 (17)
Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Abelian and non-Abelian geometric phases in adiabatic open quantum systems. Physical Review A. Vol. 73 (6)
Woodworth, R., Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Few-body spin couplings and their implications for universal quantum computation. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter. Vol. 18 (21), pp. S721-S744.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2006). Quantum malware. Quantum Information Processing. Vol. 5 (2), pp. 69-81.
Wu, L. A., Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A., Sham, L. J. (2006). Linking entanglement and quantum phase transitions via density-functional theory. Physical Review A. Vol. 74 (5)
Bandyopadhyay, S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Robustness of multiqubit entanglement in the independent decoherence model. Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (4)
Brumer, P., Lidar, D. A., Lo, H. K., Steinberg, A. (2005). Quantum information and quantum control. Quantum Information & Computation. Vol. 5 (4-5), pp. 273-274.
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A., Wu, L. A., Zanardi, P. (2005). Universal leakage elimination. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (5)
Facchi, P., Tasaki, S., Pascazio, S., Nakazato, H., Tokuse, A., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Control of decoherence: Analysis and comparison of three different strategies. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (2)
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Fault-tolerant quantum dynamical decoupling. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (18)
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation in the presence of spontaneous emission and collective dephasing (vol 89, pg 197904, 2002). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (9)
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Quantum computing in the presence of spontaneous emission by a combined dynamical decoupling and quantum-error-correction strategy (vol 68, pg 022322, 2003). Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (2)
Lidar, D. A. (2005). Against the odds of imperfection. Nature Physics. Vol. 1 (3), pp. 145-146.
Lidar, D. A., Khodjasteh, K. (2005). Robust dynamical decoupling: Feedback-free error correction. International Journal of Quantum Information. Vol. 3, pp. 41-52.
Lidar, D. A., Schneider, S. (2005). Stabilizing qubit coherence via tracking-control. Quantum Information & Computation. Vol. 5 (4-5), pp. 350-363.
Mohseni, M., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Fault-tolerant quantum computation via exchange interactions. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 94 (4)
Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Adiabatic quantum computation in open systems. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (25)
Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Adiabatic approximation in open quantum systems. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (1)
Shabani, A., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Theory of initialization-free decoherence-free subspaces and subsystems. Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (4)
Shabani, A., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Completely positive post-Markovian master equation via a measurement approach. Physical Review A. Vol. 71 (2)
Wu, L. A., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Entanglement observables and witnesses for interacting quantum spin systems. Physical Review A. Vol. 72 (3)
Wu, L. A., Zanardi, P., Lidar, D. A. (2005). Holonomic quantum computation in decoherence-free subspaces. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 95 (13)
Bandyopadhyay, S., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Entangling capacities of noisy two-qubit Hamiltonians. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (1)
Byrd, I. S., Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Overview of quantum error prevention and leakage elimination. Journal of Modern Optics. Vol. 51 (16-18), pp. 2449-2460.
Facchi, P., Lidar, D. A., Pascazio, S. (2004). Unification of dynamical decoupling and the quantum Zeno effect. Physical Review A. Vol. 69 (3)
Lidar, D. A. (2004). On the quantum computational complexity of the Ising spin glass partition function and of knot invariants. New Journal of Physics. Vol. 6
Lidar, D. A., Thywissen, J. H. (2004). Exponentially localized magnetic fields for single-spin quantum logic gates. Journal of Applied Physics. Vol. 96 (1), pp. 754-758.
Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Exchange interaction between three and four coupled quantum dots: Theory and applications to quantum computing. Physical Review B. Vol. 70 (11)
Mizel, A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Three- and four-body interactions in spin-based quantum computers. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 92 (7)
Shiokawa, K., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Dynamical decoupling using slow pulses: Efficient suppression of 1/f noise. Physical Review A. Vol. 69 (3)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Overcoming quantum noise in optical fibers. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (6)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A., Friesen, M. (2004). One-spin quantum logic gates from exchange interactions and a global magnetic field. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 93 (3)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A., Schneider, S. (2004). Long-range entanglement generation via frequent measurements. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (3)
Wu, L. A., Sarandy, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Quantum phase transitions and bipartite entanglement. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 93 (25)
Zanardi, P., Lidar, D. A. (2004). Purity and state fidelity of quantum channels. Physical Review A. Vol. 70 (1)
Zanardi, P., Lidar, D. A., Lloyd, S. (2004). Quantum tensor product structures are observable induced. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 92 (6)
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Combined error correction techniques for quantum computing architectures. Journal of Modern Optics. Vol. 50 (8), pp. 1285-1297.
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Empirical determination of dynamical decoupling operations. Physical Review A. Vol. 67 (1)
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Quantum computing in the presence of spontaneous emission by a combined dynamical decoupling and quantum-error-correction strategy. Physical Review A. Vol. 68 (2)
Lidar, D. A. (2003). Comment on "Conservative quantum computing". Physical Review Letters. Vol. 91 (8)
Lidar, D. A., Wu, L. A. (2003). Encoded recoupling and decoupling: An alternative to quantum error-correcting codes applied to trapped-ion quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 67 (3)
Ollerenshaw, J. E., Lidar, D. A., Kay, L. E. (2003). Magnetic resonance realization of decoherence-free quantum computation. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 91 (21)
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Comment on "Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer" - Reply. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 90 (24)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Dressed qubits. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 91 (9)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2003). Universal quantum computation using exchange interactions and measurements of single- and two-spin observables. Physical Review A. Vol. 67 (5)
Bihary, Z., Glenn, D. R., Lidar, D. A., Apkarian, V. A. (2002). An implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm on molecular vibronic coherences through four-wave mixing: a theoretical study. Chemical Physics Letters. Vol. 360 (5-6), pp. 459-465.
Brown, K. R., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (2002). Quantum computing with quantum dots on quantum linear supports. Physical Review A. Vol. 65 (1)
Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Comprehensive encoding and decoupling solution to problems of decoherence and design in solid-state quantum computing. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (4)
Khodjasteh, K., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation in the presence of spontaneous emission and collective dephasing. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (19)
Lidar, D. A. (2002). Comment on "Quantum waveguide array generator for performing Fourier transforms: Alternate route to quantum computing" [Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 2823 (2001)]. Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 80 (13), pp. 2419-2419.
Lidar, D. A., Wu, L. A. (2002). Reducing constraints on quantum computer design by encoded selective recoupling. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 88 (1)
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Publisher's note: Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer (vol 89, art no 057904, 2002). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (19)
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Efficient universal leakage elimination for physical and encoded qubits. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (12)
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer (vol 89, art no 057904, 2002). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (13)
Wu, L. A., Byrd, M. S., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Polynomial-time simulation of pairing models on a quantum computer. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 89 (5)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Universal quantum logic from Zeeman and anisotropic exchange interactions. Physical Review A. Vol. 66 (6)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Qubits as parafermions. Journal of Mathematical Physics. Vol. 43 (9), pp. 4506-4525.
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Creating decoherence-free subspaces using strong and fast pulses. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 88 (20)
Wu, L. A., Lidar, D. A. (2002). Power of anisotropic exchange interactions: Universality and efficient codes for quantum computing. Physical Review A. Vol. 65 (4)
Biham, E., Biham, O., Biron, D., Grassl, M., Lidar, D. A., Shapira, D. (2001). Analysis of generalized Grover quantum search algorithms using recursion equations. Physical Review A. Vol. 6301 (1)
Kempe, J., Bacon, D., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (2001). Theory of decoherence-free fault-tolerant universal quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 6304 (4)
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Whaley, K. B. (2001). Decoherence-free subspaces for multiple-qubit errors. I. Characterization. Physical Review A. Vol. 6302 (2)
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Whaley, K. B. (2001). Decoherence-free subspaces for multiple-qubit errors. II. Universal, fault-tolerant quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 6302 (2)
Lidar, D. A., Bihary, Z., Whaley, K. B. (2001). From completely positive maps to the quantum Markovian semigroup master equation. Chemical Physics. Vol. 268 (1-3), pp. 35-53.
Zadoyan, R., Kohen, D., Lidar, D. A., Apkarian, V. A. (2001). The manipulation of massive ro-vibronic superpositions using time-frequency-resolved coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (TFRCARS): from quantum control to quantum computing. Chemical Physics. Vol. 266 (2-3), pp. 323-351.
Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (2000). Universal fault-tolerant quantum computation on decoherence-free subspaces. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 85 (8), pp. 1758-1761.
Lidar, D. A. (2000). Decoherence-free quantum computation. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society. Vol. 220, pp. U190-U190.
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Kempe, J., Whaley, K. B. (2000). Protecting quantum information encoded in decoherence-free states against exchange errors. Physical Review A. Vol. 61 (5)
Bacon, D., Lidar, D. A., Whaley, K. B. (1999). Robustness of decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation. Physical Review A. Vol. 60 (3), pp. 1944-1955.
Biham, E., Biham, O., Biron, D., Grassl, M., Lidar, D. A. (1999). Grover's quantum search algorithm for an arbitrary initial amplitude distribution. Physical Review A. Vol. 60 (4), pp. 2742-2745.
Biham, O., Malcai, O., Lidar, D. A., Avnir, D. (1999). Pattern formation and a clustering transition in power-law sequential adsorption. Physical Review E. Vol. 59 (5), pp. R4713-R4716.
Lidar, D. A., Bacon, D., Whaley, K. B. (1999). Concatenating decoherence-free subspaces with quantum error correcting codes. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 82 (22), pp. 4556-4559.
Lidar, D. A., Thirumalai, D., Elber, R., Gerber, R. B. (1999). Fractal analysis of protein potential energy landscapes. Physical Review E. Vol. 59 (2), pp. 2231-2243.
Lidar, D. A., Wang, H. B. (1999). Calculating the thermal rate constant with exponential speedup on a quantum computer. Physical Review E. Vol. 59 (2), pp. 2429-2438.
Avnir, D., Biham, O., Lidar, D. A., Malcai, O. (1998). Is the geometry of nature fractal?. Science. Vol. 279 (5347), pp. 39-40.
Biham, O., Lidar, D. A. (1998). Fractality in nature - Response (vol 279, pg 1615, 1998). Science. Vol. 280 (5361), pp. 185-185.
Biham, O., Malcai, O., Lidar, D. A., Avnir, D. (1998). Is nature fractal? Response. Science. Vol. 279 (5352), pp. 785-786.
Lidar, D. A., Biham, O., Malcai, O., Lidax, D. A., Avnir, D. (1998). Fractality in nature - Response. Science. Vol. 279 (5357), pp. 1615-1616.
Lidar, D. A. (1998). Inversion of randomly corrugated surface structure from atom scattering data. Inverse Problems. Vol. 14 (5), pp. 1299-1310.
Lidar, D. A. (1998). Atom scattering from disordered surfaces in the sudden approximation: double collisions effects and quantum liquids. Surface Science. Vol. 411 (3), pp. 231-248.
Lidar, D. A., Chuang, I. L., Whaley, K. B. (1998). Decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 81 (12), pp. 2594-2597.
Maierle, C. S., Lidar, D. A., Harris, R. A. (1998). How to teleport superpositions of chiral amplitudes. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 81 (26), pp. 5928-5931.
Yinnon, A. T., Lidar, D. A., Gerber, R. B., Zeppenfeld, P., Krzyzowski, M. A., Comsa, G. (1998). Structure determination of disordered metallic sub-monolayers by helium scattering: a theoretical and experimental study. Surface Science. Vol. 410 (1), pp. L721-L726.
Lidar, D. A., Biham, O. (1997). Simulating Ising spin glasses on a quantum computer. Physical Review E. Vol. 56 (3), pp. 3661-3681.
Lidar, D. A., Biham, O., Avnir, D. (1997). Limited range fractality of randomly adsorbed rods. Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 106 (24), pp. 10359-10367.
Malcai, O., Lidar, D. A., Biham, O., Avnir, D. (1997). Scaling range and cutoffs in empirical fractals. Physical Review E. Vol. 56 (3), pp. 2817-2828.
Yinnon, A. T., Lidar, D. A., Farbman, I., Gerber, R. B., Zeppenfeld, P., Krzyzowski, M. A., Comsa, G. (1997). He scattering from random adsorbates, disordered compact islands, and fractal submonolayers: Intensity manifestations of surface disorder. Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 106 (10), pp. 4228-4242.
Lidar, D. A., Hamburger, D., Biham, O., Avnir, D. (1996). Apparent fractality emerging from models of random distributions. Physical Review E. Vol. 53 (4), pp. 3342-3358.
Lidar, D. A., Hamburger, D. A., Yinnon, A. T., Gerber, R. B. (1996). Fractal dimension of disordered submonolayers: Determination from He scattering data. Chemical Physics Letters. Vol. 253 (3-4), pp. 223-229.
Lidar, D. A., HamburgerLidar, D. A. (1996). Elastic scattering by deterministic and random fractals: Self-affinity of the diffraction spectrum. Physical Review E. Vol. 54 (1), pp. 354-370.
Lidar, D. A., Hamburger, D. A., Gerber, R. B. (1995). OPTICAL THEOREM AND THE INVERSION OF CROSS-SECTION DATA FOR ATOM SCATTERING FROM DEFECTS ON SURFACES. Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 102 (17), pp. 6919-6930.
Lidar, D. A., Hamburger, D. A., Yinnon, A. T., Farbman, I., Benshaul, A., Gerber, R. B. (1995). HE SCATTERING FROM COMPACT CLUSTERS AND FROM DIFFUSION-LIMITED AGGREGATES ON SURFACES - OBSERVABLE SIGNATURES OF STRUCTURE. Surface Science. Vol. 327 (1-2), pp. 165-191.

Other

Biron, D., Biham, O., Biham, E., Grassl, M., Lidar, D. A. (1999). Generalized grover search algorithm for arbitrary initial amplitude distribution. Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications.

Honors and Awards

Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2007-2008   
Keynote Speaker, Noise, Information and Compexity at Quantum Scale Workshop, Majorana Center, Erice, Italy, Fall 2007   
Senior Member of IEEE, Fall 2007   
Plenary Speaker, 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science, Tainan, Taiwan, 2004-2005   
Sloan Research Fellowship, 2003-2004   
Fulbright Award, 1997-1998   

Service to the Profession
Editorships and Editorial Boards

Editorial Board member and founding member, Quantum Information Processing, 2001-  
Guest Editor of Journal Special Issues- Dynamical Control of Entanglement and Decoherence, J. Phys, Fall 2007   
Editorial Board Member and Founding Member, Kluwer Academic- Quantum Information Processing, Fall 2007    

Professional Memberships

Insitute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, 2004-  
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, 2004-  
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1996-  
American Chemical Society, 1996-  
American Physical Society, 1996-  
External Advisory Board, University of Michigan- NSF-FOCUS Center, Spring 2007