Awards

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Named Finalist in 2024 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists - Alexey Gorshkov

Advanced the design of large interacting quantum systems through pioneering research at the intersection of quantum physics and information science with groundbreaking implications for quantum computers, sensors, and networks. Read full citation on...

2024 IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award - Alexey Gorshkov

"For pioneering contributions to understanding, design, and control of interacting quantum systems, with applications including quantum computers, sensors, and networks." Alexey Gorshkov, received his A.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard in 2004 and...

JQI Researchers Win 2023 UMD Quantum Invention of the Year Award

This year Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a research partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, researchers and their colleagues have won in the quantum category for a new method for...

2023 Optica Fellow - Alexey Gorshkov

JQI Fellow Alexey Gorshkov was named a 2023 fellow of Optica, the organization formerly known as the Optical Society of America. Gorshkov was honored for his research on large, interacting quantum systems, which has practical applications for quantum...

2022 Excellence in Research Award in Physical and Information Sciences - Alexey Gorshkov

In recognition for pioneering, fundamental contributions to the understanding, design, and control of large, interacting quantum systems, with applications including quantum computers, quantum sensors, and quantum networks.

2021 - Arthur S. Flemming Award---Alexey Gorshkov

Dr. Gorshkov’s creating strong interactions between photons gives a basis for technology using light rather than electrons to perform operations/computations.

2020 - Gold Medal Award---Jacob Taylor

For leadership in shaping the nation’s quantum science agenda, resulting in the National Quantum Initiative Act and its implementation infrastructure.

Jacob Taylor Elected OSA Fellow

For contributions using quantum properties of light and matter for applications ranging from extremely sensitive sensors to quantum information processing.

Sergey V. Polyakov Elected OSA Fellow

For contributions using quantum properties of light for optical metrology, communication, and biosensing beyond classical limits.

2020 APS Fellow - Alexey V. Gorshkov

For contributions to the understanding, design, and control of quantum many-body atomic, molecular, and optical systems and their applications to phase transitions, entanglement generation and propagation, synthetic magnetism, and quantum memory and...

IOP Trusted Reviewer - Zachary Levine

IOP trusted reviewer status acknowledges that you have demonstrated a high level of peer review competence, with the ability to critique scientific literature to an excellent standard.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Alexey Gorshkov

For his groundbreaking research in quantum science, which included manipulating individual light particles to strongly interact.

Alan Migdall Elected OSA Fellow

For significant contributions to quantum optics, especially the development of accurate metrology of single-photon detectors using parametric down conversion.

2019 PECASE - Alexey Gorshkov

For pushing the frontiers of quantum science through groundbreaking research, including manipulating individual light particles to strongly interact—something they do not naturally do, and which was recognized by “Physics World” as one of the top ten...

Glenn Solomon Elected OSA Fellow

For pioneering the development of semiconductor quantum dot optical materials and device structures for solid-state quantum optics.

2018 Young Scientist Prize - Alexey Gorshkov

The 2018 IUPAP Young Scientist prize for the Commission on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (C15) was awarded to Dr. Alexey Gorshkov for outstanding contributions on quantum properties of interacting cold atoms, cold dipolar matter, quantum...

2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers - Ian Spielman, Jake Taylor, Debbie Jin, and Jun Ye

The 2017 list focuses on contemporary research achievement: only Highly Cited Papers in science and social sciences journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection during the 11-year period 2005-2015 were surveyed.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Zachary H. Levine

For demonstrating a more accurate and vendor-independent approach to measuring tumor size, a ubiquitously used benchmark in the treatment of cancer.

2017 APS Fellow - Jacob Taylor

For his wide ranging contributions in using quantum properties of light and matter towards developing applications ranging from extreme sensitivity sensors and transducers to quantum information processing.

2017 Optical Society of America Senior Member- Zachary Levine

Senior Members are well-established individuals with a designation that recognizes their experience and professional accomplishments or service within their field that sets them apart from their peers.

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2016 - Gold Medal Award---Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)

For being the first in nearly 50 years of attempts to achieve a loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem, confirming the predictions of quantum mechanics. Nearly 20 NIST employees and associates from PML and ITL contributed to this achievement.

Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the Year 2015

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the year 2015 was awarded jointly to three publications by groups at the TU Delft (The Netherlands), the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria) and the National Institute of Standards...

2015 Fulbright fellowship - Glenn Solomon

NIST has a long-standing program in quantum information science that includes creating coherence in quantum dots — a type of nanostructure — that can lead to everything from single photon sources to the core components of quantum computer — a so...

2014 Invention of the Year Nominee: A New Single-Photon Avalanche Diode System for LIDAR and Quantum Cryptography

UMD researchers have developed a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detection system that is so sensitive that it detects photons that arrive at times well before a readout gate is applied, hence increasing the system’s detection duty cycle. This...

2014 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua Bienfang

For developing single photon detectors in the commercially relevant infrared spectrum near the fundamental limits for quantum communication.

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