He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career award and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, in 2008. He conducted postgraduate research as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 2009 until 2013. He has published many articles and preprints in the area of quantum information processing, and he is the author of the text "Quantum Information Theory," published by Cambridge University Press. His research interests are in quantum information theory, quantum error correction, quantum computational complexity theory, and quantum optics with applications to quantum communication.OtherBrandt, Steven