Emily Edwards

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

Representative Publications

  • 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.
  • Korenblit, S., D. Kafri, W. C. Campbell, R. Islam, E. E. Edwards, Z. X. Gong, G. D. Lin, et al. “Quantum simulation of spin models on an arbitrary lattice with trapped ions.” New Journal of Physics 14 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/9/095024.