Mark McMahon Wilde is an American quantum information scientist. He is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

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, and he is also a Fields Member in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics and the

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. Wilde's research spans

quantum information theory Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both t ...

(including communication trade-offs, quantum rate-distortion), network quantum information,

quantum error correction Quantum error correction (QEC) is a set of techniques used in quantum computing to protect quantum information from errors due to decoherence and other quantum noise. Quantum error correction is theorised as essential to achieve fault tolerant ...

, quantum optical communication, quantum computational complexity, and quantum entropy inequalities. His research results on quantum entropy inequalities, time travel and quantum cloning, trade-offs in quantum communication, and quantum entanglement measures have been communicated in popular science media. He has written or coauthored two textbooks on

. The first textbook utilizes the

von Neumann entropy In physics, the von Neumann entropy, named after John von Neumann, is a measure of the statistical uncertainty within a description of a quantum system. It extends the concept of Gibbs entropy from classical statistical mechanics to quantum statis ...

and its variants and the notion of

typical subspace In quantum information theory, the idea of a typical subspace plays an important role in the proofs of many coding theorems (the most prominent example being Schumacher compression). Its role is analogous to that of the typical set in classical inf ...

to present the capacities of quantum communication channels. The second textbook utilizes the Renyi entropy and its variants, the hypothesis testing relative entropy, and the smooth max-relative entropy to present the capacities of quantum communication channels. It also has a part dedicated to foundational concepts in

quantum information Quantum information is the information of the state of a quantum system. It is the basic entity of study in quantum information theory, and can be manipulated using quantum information processing techniques. Quantum information refers to both t ...

and entanglement theory and another part to feedback-assisted capacities, representing more recent developments from 2013 and on.

Education

Wilde graduated from Jesuit High School in

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in 1998. He received his bachelor's degree in

computer engineering Computer engineering (CE, CoE, or CpE) is a branch of engineering specialized in developing computer hardware and software. It integrates several fields of electrical engineering, electronics engineering and computer science. Computer engi ...

from

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in 2002, with support from the Thomas Barton Scholarship. He received his Master's degree in

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from

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in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

in 2008, under the supervision of Todd Brun and with support from a School of Engineering Fellowship. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Quantum Coding with Entanglement" and contributed to the theory of entanglement-assisted quantum error correction. During this time, he also received the Best Teaching Assistant Award from the

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at USC. After his Ph.D. studies, he conducted postdoctoral work in the School of Computer Science at

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from 2009–2013 under the supervision of Patrick Hayden, focusing on the topics of

, and quantum computational complexity.

Career

During the summer of 2013, he was a visiting scholar at

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and the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the

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. In August 2013, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the

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(LSU). In August 2018, he was promoted to associate professor with tenure. He is also affiliated with the Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics at LSU. From January 2020 until December 2020, he was a visiting professor at the

Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics The Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics (SITP) is a research institute within the Physics Department at Stanford University. Led by 16 physics faculty members, the institute conducts research in high energy and condensed matter theoretica ...

(on

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from LSU). In July 2022, he became Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at

. He was associate editor for Quantum Information Theory for

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from May 2015 to December 2021 and for

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from January 2018 until January 2022. He has been on the editorial board for Quantum Information Processing since March 2012. He co-organized the Southwest Quantum Information and Technology Workshop in 2017 and 2018 and the Beyond i.i.d. in Information Theory Conference in 2015, 2016, and 2020. He was the program committee chair for the 2018 Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing Conference and the 2017 Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography.

Honors

* Centre de Recherches Mathematiques Thematic Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2013) * Senior Member of the IEEE (2013) * APS-IUSSTF Professorship Award in Physics (2014) * National Science Foundation Career Development Award (2014) * LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award (2015) * LSU College of Science Faculty Research Award (2016) * AHP-Birkhauser Prize, awarded to “the most remarkable contribution” published in the journal Annales Henri Poincare (2018) *LSU Rainmaker Mid-Career Scholar Award (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) (2019) * Outstanding Referee of American Physical Society (2021) * IEEE Fellow, “for contributions to the relative-entropy framework and theorems for quantum communications” (2023)

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