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Prem Kumar Professor (joint with Physics) SBC Professor of Information Technology Director of Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Please note that this page is no longer being maintained. Follow this link for current faculty listing. Room: M392 Telephone: (847) 491-4128 E-mail: kumarp@eecs.northwestern.edu Personal Website: www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~kumarp

Prem Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University. He joined the ECE department in 1986. He is the Director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing. Prior to Northwestern, he was a Staff Scientist at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a Research Scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. He has authored over 275 papers and has supervised 19 Ph.D. students and 17 M.S. students. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IoP). Prem received his B.Sc. from the University of Delhi, Delhi, India, in 1974. He received his M.Sc. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, in 1980. Research Interests Optical communications, in particular, novel optical amplifiers and devices for terabits per second fiber-optic communications; quantum fiber-optics, in particular, generation and distribution of quantum entanglement over the fiber channel and quantum cryptography over fiber lines; nonlinear and quantum optics, in particular, applications of novel states of light such as squeezed and twin-beam states.

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