Peter McMahon

About

Peter McMahon received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering with a Physics minor from Stanford University in 2014 for research done on quantum information processing using optically controlled spins in semiconductors. He then performed postdoctoral work in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford until he joined the faculty in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell. Prior to attending graduate school at Stanford he spent one year at the University of California, Berkeley, working on instrumentation for radio astronomy and bioinformatics. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Cape Town. While at Stanford he was awarded a Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2008–2011) and a Stanford Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015–2

Education

• B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cape Town 2003-2008
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Cape Town 2003-2008
• M.S. Computer Science, University of Cape Town 2003-2008
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 2008-2010
• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University 2010-2014
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Physics, Stanford University 2014-2019