Volkan Gurses

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics at Caltech. My goal is to build technologies that operate at the fundamental physical limits.

Research: My research focuses on studying the fundamental physical limits of technologies (e.g. Landauer, Bekenstein, Holevo limits) and developing technologies that operate at these limits. To that end, I invented various technologies that push current devices to these limits by leveraging concepts from fundamental physics. One example is quantum phased arrays that demonstrated the first free-space sensor and transceiver that can operate at the Heisenberg limit (overcoming the standard quantum limit) and the first free-space interface for quantum information. I also invented quantum coherent transceivers that can operate at the Holevo limit (overcoming the Shannon limit) and put together a roadmap to couple these transceivers with efficient processors to push computing to the Landauer limit.

Previously: I received my Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Caltech and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. I was an awardee of the Caltech Entrepreneurship Prize, Broadcom Innovation Fund, Carver Mead New Adventures Fund, R. David Middlebrook Fellowship, Tau Beta Pi Fellowship, IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship, European Union Contest for Young Scientists CERN Special Donated Prize and First Prize in Physics in the Turkish National Secondary School Research Contest.