The Department is pleased to welcome Professor Jungsang Kim as a new secondary faculty member. Kim is director of the Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology (MIST) Research Group at Duke and an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Kim, an expert in photonics and microelectromechanical systems, received his PhD in physics from Stanford University in 1999, then worked at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey before joining the Duke faculty in 2004. Today, Kim's research focuses on quantum computing, a new and emerging field attempting to build the next generation of computers, run by the power of quantum physics.

Kim is involved in several nationwide research collaborations in quantum computing: one to investigate a new design for a quantum computer with up to 80 quantum bits, and another to build a software tool that can simulate how a large quantum computer might run.

Getting computer scientists involved will be vital in this interdisciplinary field, says Kim. "If we want to build a quantum processor, we need to first think about computer architecture." As a secondary faculty member, he will welcome CS graduate students into his lab and begin to build formal collaborations with other CS professors. "Hopefully they can teach me," says Kim, "and we can think about this new science together."