Mark M. Wilde is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Development Award and the APS-IUSSTF Professorship Award in Physics. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE, and is currently serving as Associate Editor for Quantum Information Theory for the leading journal IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His current research interests are in quantum Shannon theory, quantum optical communication, quantum computational complexity theory, and quantum error correction.