Mark M. Wilde (M'99-SM'13) was born in Metairie, Louisiana, USA. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, in 2008. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. His current research interests are in quantum Shannon theory, quantum optical communication, quantum computational complexity theory, and quantum error correction.