Albert and Ethel Grobstein Professor and University Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Center for Quantum Computing and Information Technology
Elias Towe is currently the Albert & Ethel Grobstein Professor and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon. He is the Director of the National Science Foundation Quantum Computing and Information Technologies (QCiT) Center. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon in late 2001, he was Program Manager at DARPA, where he led programs in photonics and electronics, including the VLSI Photonics Program, one of the first-generation, large-scale optical interconnect programs. Prof. Towe was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees. He is a recipient of several professional awards and honors and is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Research
Towe's group pursues research in basic optical and quantum phenomena for applications in novel photonic devices that enable a new generation of information-processing systems for communication, computation, and sensing. The group’s system-level research is focused on the construction of two test beds: one for quantum processors based on quantum-dot qubits and another for quantum networks (for sensing and communication).
1987 Ph.D., EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1981 MS, EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1981 BS, EECS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CMU Engineering
Three College of Engineering faculty members have been elevated to the rank of University Professor, the highest distinction a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon.
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A new National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center at CMU will create an ecosystem that advances quantum computing and information technologies.
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College of Engineering dean, professor, and alumnus inducted in the National Academy of Engineering.
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Carnegie Mellon University’s Bill Sanders, Elias Towe, Anirudh Devgan, and Stefan Savage have received the prestigious honor of election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
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Alumnus Jeff Mullen (ECE ’00, Tepper ’09) and his company, Dynamics Inc., have created an innovative way to inactivate coronavirus in the air.
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The team is creating a smart port to the brain that will use artificial intelligence to selectively stimulate and record from the brain.
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An interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at CMU has produced a new type of neural probe with an innovative design, improving the way researchers study neurons deep in the brain.
