Daniel Stancil

Bio

Daniel D. Stancil is the Alcoa Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the IBM Quantum Innovation Center at North Carolina State University. His early interest in radios and electronics launched an engineering career that has been–and continues to be–fun and rewarding. Along the way he picked up engineering degrees from Tennessee Tech (B.S.E.E.) and MIT (M.S., E.E. and Ph.D.). He has spent many years as a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at both Carnegie Mellon University and NC State. While at CMU he served as Associate Head of the ECE Department, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. He was head of the Department of ECE at NC State from 2009-2023.

His research has included such varied topics as magnetic films, optics, microwaves, wireless channels, antennas, remote labs, and particle physics. Technology for distributing wireless signals through HVAC ducts that Dr. Stancil and his students developed has been installed in such major buildings as Chicago’s Trump Towers and McCormick Place Convention Center. The demonstration of neutrino communications by a multidisciplinary team coordinated by Dr. Stancil was recognized by Physics World Magazine as one of the top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2012. Additional recognitions that his work has received have included an IR 100 Award and a Photonics Circle of Excellence Award. Dr. Stancil is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a past-president of the IEEE Magnetics Society.

When not thinking about engineering, he divides his time between hiking with his wife, playing the euphonium, and amateur radio.

Area(s) of Expertise

Quantum Information Science and Engineering
Physical Electronics, Photonics & Magnetics
Electronic Circuits and Systems
Communications and Signal Processing

Publications

• Board 82: Remote, Hands-on ECE Teaching: Project RECET , (2023)
• Principles of Superconducting Quantum Computers , (2022)
• Single-magnon excited states of a Heisenberg spin chain using a quantum computer , PHYSICAL REVIEW B (2022)
• Spin Waves , (2021)
• Improved wireless power transfer efficiency with non-perfect lenses , APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS (2019)
• Search for possible solar influences in Ra-226 decays , Results in Physics (2017)
• Channel Propagation Measurement and Modeling for Vehicular In-Cabin Wi-Fi Networks , IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2016)
• Experimental characterization of volume-mode waves in near-field anisotropic metamaterials with application to wireless power transfer , 2014 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC 2014 (2014)
• Radio channel in a minivan's passenger cabin: Preliminary ray tracing simulations , IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, AP-S International Symposium (Digest) (2014)
• The Remote Educational Antenna Laboratory: Making it Easier to Add Projects to Antenna Courses , IEEE ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION MAGAZINE (2014)

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