Research interests: superconducting optoelectronics; microwave-photonics/quantum devices; electromagnetic band gap structures
Biography
Professor A. Hamed Majedi leads the Integrated Quantum Optoelectronics Lab (IQOL) for characterization of superconducting and photonic quantum devices, especially superconducting single-photon detector.
Majedi is investigating theoretical and experimental techniques to characterize quantum optoelectronic and microwave-to-terahertz photonic devices, especially based on superconducting materials. This new knowledge will become the building blocks for new photonics-based technologies in quantum information processing, nano-photonics, on-chip quantum optoelectronics and bio-nano systems.
Majedi was born in Tehran, Iran and did his BSc in Electrical Engineering at K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He received his MSc in Electrical from AmirKabir University of Technology with honours. In 1998, he joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, at the University of Waterloo and obtained his PhD with distinction on December 2001. His PhD thesis investigated the optical-microwave interaction in superconducting transmission lines for optoelectronic applications. After Majedi completed his PhD, he spent 10 months as a postdoctoral fellow in the ECE department focusing on superconducting single photon detectors and THz photonic devices. Majedi is now an Associate Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering department, cross-appointed with the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Education
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2001
- MSc, Electrical Engineering, Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1996
- BSc, Electrical Engineering (Major: Telecommunications), K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1994
