Joseph Lukens

Joseph M. Lukens is an associate professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, where he maintains a joint faculty appointment with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He received the BS degree in electrical engineering and physics from the University of Alabama in 2011 and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from Purdue in 2015. Prior to his return to Purdue in 2025, Lukens was employed as a Wigner Fellow and research scientist at ORNL (2015–2022) and then as senior director of quantum networking at Arizona State University (2022–2024). His research interests encompass a variety of topics in photonic quantum information processing, optical networking, and Bayesian inference.