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Professor Karl K. Berggren

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
50 Vassar Street, Suite 36-219 (QNN) & 38-435 (EE Head office)
Cambridge, MA 02139

617.324.0272—Tel /  617.253.0926—Asst
berggren@mit.edu / RLE Biography / RLE Video

Prof. Berggren is the faculty head of electrical engineering and the Julius A. Stratton Professor in Electrical Engineering and Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he co-heads the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group. From 1996 to 2003, Prof. Berggren served as a staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts, and from 2010 to 2011, was on sabbatical at the Delft University of Techonology in the Netherlands.

His current research focuses on superconductive circuits, electronic devices, single-photon detectors for quantum applications, and electron-optical systems.

Prof. Berggren has taught a range of subjects in the department, including Digital Communications, Circuits and Electronics, Fundamentals of Programming, Applied Quantum and Statistical Physics, Introduction to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems, Introduction to Quantum Systems Engineering, and Introduction to Nanofabrication.

Prof. Berggren is a fellow of AAAS and a fellow of IEEE. He is a Kavli fellow, and a recipient of the 2015 Paul T. Forman Team Engineering Award from the Optical Society of America. In 2016, he received a Bose Fellowship and was also a recipient of the EECS Department’s Frank Quick Innovation Fellowship and the Burgess (‘52) & Elizabeth Jamieson Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2024, he was named an MIT MacVicar fellow.

Prof. Berggren has served as a consultant to several industrial, academic, and government organizations, and continues an active independent consulting practice.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
50 Vassar Street, Suite 36-293
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phillip (“Donnie”) Keathley received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2009, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2015. His research experience spans the areas of ultrafast optics, strong-field science, attosecond physics, nanophotonics, and plasmonics. He is currently a principal research scientist and co-group leader of the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group in the Research Lab. of Electronics at MIT where he develops petahertz electronics, nanoscale free-electron light sources, and radiation-hard nanoscale vacuum-electronics. He was named an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator in 2018, and received an NSF CAREER award for the research and development of petahertz electronics in 2023. He is a senior member of Optica (formerly OSA).

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