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2014 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows 

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Susan Coppersmith

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Quantum Sciences


Towards Scalable Quantum Computation
with Electrically-gated Silicon
Quantum Dot Qubits

Christopher Dwyer

Duke University
(currently unaffiliated)
Nanoscience

Molecular-scale Energy Transport and
Computational Phenomena Enabled
by DNA Nanotechnology

Gregory Engel

University of Chicago
Quantum Science


Transcribing Quantum Information
Using Quantum Dynamics of
Coherent Materials

 Jian Luo

UC San Diego
Applied Mathematics


Development of Interfacial Phase Diagrams
for the Materials Genome Initiative:
Tailoring the Processing and Properties
of Materials for Defense Applications

Chad Mirkin

Northwestern University 
Nanoscience

Functional Crystals Through Encodable
Hard and Soft Matter

Charan Ranganath

UC Davis
Neuroscience

Decoding and Enhancing Neural
Mechanisms for Episodic Memory

Kaushik Roy

Purdue University
Neuromorphic Computing

Efficient Neuro-Computing using
Spin-Torque Devices

 Norbert Scherer

University of Chicago
Optical Materials

Optical Materials Harnessing Meso-scale
Electrodynamics and Plasmonics for
Enhanced Chemistry, Sensing,
and Quantum Optics

Yuri Suzuki

Stanford University
Functional Materials

Engineering Functionality in Emergent Oxide
Thin Film Materials Systems

Christopher Voigt

MIT
Synthetic Biology

Synthetic Biology for Advanced
Functional Materials