Ed Barnes named Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean’s Faculty Fellow

16 Oct 2023

A man with dark hair and wearing a white t-shirt stands near some trees. — Ed Barnes. Photo by Steven Mackay for Virginia Tech.

Ed Barnes, professor in the Department of Physics, part of the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has been named the Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean’s Faculty Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

Established in 2019, the Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean's Faculty Fellowship recognizes extraordinary research and teaching, to recruit scholars with exceptional records of achievement and/or retain high-performing faculty members who make significant contributions to the university’s research efforts in the College of Science. Roger Moore earned his bachelor’s degree in general science from Virginia Tech.

Recipients hold the title of Roger H. Moore and Mojdeh Khatam-Moore Dean's Faculty Fellow for a period of three years.

A member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2105, Barnes’ research is focused on theoretical quantum information science, which is of enormous current interest worldwide because of the technological revolution it can enable in communications and computing, including solving problems that are intractable with classical computers. He leads an active research group of 11 graduate students and nine postdoctoral fellows.

Barnes has played an important role in the creation of the Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering, and he has been very active in developing quantum information science and engineering education programs at Virginia Tech.

His scholarship includes 110 publications in peer-reviewed journals and 60 invited or keynote presentations at professional conferences. To date, his publications have garnered over 4,500 citations.

Since coming to Virginia Tech, Barnes has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on 20 grants from a variety of agencies including the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, and the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency.

In 2019, he was the recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation Early Career Faculty (CAREER) award.

Before coming to Virginia Tech, he was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Virginia and University of Maryland and a senior research associate at the University of Maryland. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from University of California, San Diego.

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