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Researcher

Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Also known as Jeffery H. Shapiro, Jeffrey Shapiro

As of October 2026, Jeffrey H. Shapiro is a post-tenure MIT electrical engineering professor affiliated with EE and AI+D, with research in quantum computing, communication, and sensing. He trained at MIT, taught at Case Western, and directed the Research Laboratory of Electronics. His quantum work spans squeezed-state communication, quantum illumination for secure messages, and quantum error-correcting codes. He was named one of three recipients of the 2008 Quantum Communication Award.

Works
474
Citations
20,709
h-index
65

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1969

    A Hertz fellowship

    He begins a Hertz Foundation fellowship for graduate study at MIT in 1969.

  2. 1970–1973

    MIT graduate study and Case faculty

    He completes an MIT PhD in 1970 and serves as an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve from 1970 to 1973, then joins the MIT faculty in 1973.

  3. 1973–1985

    Squeezed-state communication

    He and Horace Yuen begin collaborating on squeezed-state optical communication in 1973; their four-wave-mixing proposal leads to the first successful demonstration of quadrature-noise squeezing in 1985.

  4. 1989–1999

    Associate department head

    He serves as associate department head at MIT from 1989 to 1999.

  5. 2001–2011

    Director of MIT's RLE

    He directs MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics from 2001 to 2011.

  6. 2008

    Quantum Communication Award

    He is named one of three recipients of the 2008 Quantum Communication Award.

  7. 2009–2018

    Quantum communication and computation

    His 2009 paper proposes quantum illumination for secure communication and describes a 50 Mbit/s, 50-km link with error probability below 10^-6. In 2018, with Isaac Chuang, he proposes hardware-efficient bosonic quantum error-correcting codes for quantum computation.

  8. As of October 2026

    Post-tenure professor at MIT

    As of October 2026, he is the Julius A. Stratton Professor in EE (Post-Tenure) at MIT, affiliated with EE and AI+D, with research areas in quantum computing, communication, and sensing.

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  1. Jeffrey Shapiro, PhD hertzfoundation.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Jeffrey H. Shapiro | MIT Center for Quantum Engineering cqe.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Jeffrey H. Shapiro - RLE at MIT rle.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Shapiro of EECS named director of RLE news.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Fink named RLE director news.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. Jeffrey H. Shapiro to be a recipient of the 2008 International Quantum Communication Award rle.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. Defeating Passive Eavesdropping with Quantum Illumination arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  8. Jeffrey Shapiro - MIT EECS eecs.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.