Profs. Gerard Wysocki, Hakan Tureci and Andrew Houck are among the recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund award. Prof. Wysocki, together with Prof. Daniel Sigman, the Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, have received this award for creating a nitrogen sensor that can monitor environmental change. Profs. Tureci and Houck have received this award for developing a quantum computer which could potentially answer questions currently impossibl
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Prof. Gmachl received one of the first two awards from the Schmidt Fund. Prof. Claire Gmachl will collaborate with Prof. Gerard Wysocki to develop fingertip sensors for diabetics building on Gmachl’s work on the development of quantum cascade lasers and Wysocki's expertise in the development of highly sensitive, compact optical sensor systems. The Schmidt Fund was established in 2009 by Google CEO and Princeton
