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Dr. Paul Kwiat is a John Bardeen Chair in Electrical Engineering and Physics. He has done pioneering research on the phenomena of quantum interrogation, quantum erasure, and optical implementations of quantum information protocols. He is a primary inventor of the world's first two sources of polarization-entangled photons from down-conversion, which have been used for quantum cryptography, dense coding, quantum teleportation, entanglement distillation, and most recently, optical quantum gates. Dr. Kwiat’s research focuses on developing resources for optical quantum information processing, e.g., single-, entangled-, and hyper-entangled photon sources, quantum memories, etc., and applying these to a range of QIS problems. He currently serves as the inaugural Director of the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST).