Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Emily Edwards is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Duke Quantum Center. She is primarily interested in science communication and informal STEM education, with a focus on increasing adult and youth interest in and engagement with quantum information science and engineering topics and technology.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Member of the Duke Quantum Center
Contact Information
- Email Address: emily.edwards@duke.edu
Education
- B.S. Appalachian State University, 2002
- M.S. University of Maryland, College Park, 2008
- Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009
Research Interests
Science communication and visualization related to physics and engineering, informal STEM Education, science policy, public engagement
In the News
Representative Publications
- Barnes, Edwin, Michael B. Bennett, Alexandra Boltasseva, Victoria Borish, Bennett Brown, Lincoln Carr, Russell R. Ceballos, et al. “Outcomes from a Workshop on a National Center for Quantum Education,” October 30, 2024. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.23460.
- Liu, T., D. Gonzalez-Maldonado, D. B. Harlow, E. E. Edwards, and D. Franklin. “Qupcakery: A Puzzle Game that Introduces Quantum Gates to Young Learners.” In SIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 1:1143–49, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545945.3569837.
- Asfaw, A., A. Blais, K. R. Brown, J. Candelaria, C. Cantwell, L. D. Carr, J. Combes, et al. “Building a Quantum Engineering Undergraduate Program.” IEEE Transactions on Education 65, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 220–42. https://doi.org/10.1109/TE.2022.3144943.
- Islam, R., W. C. Campbell, T. Choi, S. M. Clark, C. W. S. Conover, S. Debnath, E. E. Edwards, et al. “Beat note stabilization of mode-locked lasers for quantum information processing.” Optics Letters 39, no. 11 (June 1, 2014): 3238–41. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.39.003238.
- Islam, R., C. Senko, W. C. Campbell, S. Korenblit, J. Smith, A. Lee, E. E. Edwards, C. C. J. Wang, J. K. Freericks, and C. Monroe. “Emergence and frustration of magnetism with variable-range interactions in a quantum simulator.” Science 340, no. 6132 (January 1, 2013): 583–87. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1232296.