Join award-winning
Israeli physicist and engineer Technion Distinguished Professor Moti Segev
to learn more about the exciting field of quantum computing, which is poised to
upend entire industries.
With the game-changing
technology industries, as varied as pharmaceuticals, personalised healthcare,
chemical catalysts, and finance, are expected to be transformed by this
limitless potential. Prof. Segev will explore the timeline for this much-anticipated integration within the commercial world and how industries can get
in front of this momentous change.
OUR GUEST SPEAKER:
Prof. Moti Segev, Professor at the Technion -
Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Moti
Segev is the Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics and
Electrical Engineering, at the Technion, Israel. He received his BSc and Ph.D.
from the Technion in 1985 and 1990. After a postdoc at Caltech, he joined
Princeton as Assistant Professor (1994), becoming Associate Professor in 1997,
and Professor in 1999. Subsequently, Moti went back to Israel, and in 2009 was
appointed as Distinguished Professor.
Moti’s
interests are mainly in photonics, solitons, lasers, and quantum optics. He won
numerous international awards, among them the highest professional awards of three societies: 2007 Quantum Electronics Prize of
the European Physics Society, the 2009 Max Born Award of the Optical Society of
America, and the 2014 Arthur Schawlow Prize of the American Physical Society.
In 2011, he was elected to the Israel Academy of Sciences, in 2015 to the
National Academy of Science (USA), and in 2021 to the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences (AAAS). In 2014 Moti Segev won the Israel Prize (the highest honor in
Israel) and in 2019 he has won the EMET Prize.
Above all his achievements, Moti takes pride in the success of his graduate students and postdocs, among them, are currently 23 professors in the USA, Germany, Taiwan, Croatia, Italy, India, China, and Israel, and many holding senior R&D positions in the industry.