Ian Tillman

 

Ian Tillman graduated from Coe College in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. That fall he joined the College of Optical Sciences as a PhD student and started working with Dr. Dan Kilper researching classical optical networks, pivoting to quantum optical networks in 2020 with Dr. Saikat Guha. Since then he has been focused on both experimental and theoretical research involved with realizing the Quantum Internet.

 

Research: Ian’s current experimental project is building a quantum scissor with the goal of observing noiseless linear amplification on one mode of a two-mode squeezed vacuum state that has undergone lossy transmission. His theoretical research is focused on characterizing the capacity region of quantum switches and the capacity of continuous variable quantum repeaters.