Wenji Wu

An expert in both quantum and classical networks, Dr. Wenji Wu is a network research engineer in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Scientific Networking Division, where he works on quantum networks, high-speed networking, and distributed systems for QUANT-NET and for ESnet's Testbeds & Prototypes group.

Dr. Wu served on the organizing committee for the first workshop on quantum network engineering (2025), and the Optical Incubator on Quantum Network Systems Research (2025). He also served as guest editor for Nature Quantum Information, Collection: Towards Large-scale quantum networks, as a member of the technical program committee for QCE25, QCNC 2025, QuNAP 2025, and QuNet’25, and as reviewer for Computer Networks, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.

He is currently working on the QUANT-NET project, which aims to build a three-node quantum network testbed in Berkeley area. His roles in the project are (1) quantum network architecture and protocol stack research and development and (2) quantum network real-time control system research and development.

Dr. Wu was the PI on two DOE network research projects, the MDTM project and the BigData Express project. These two projects are targeted at providing schedulable, predictable, and high-performance data transfer service for DOE’s large-scale science computing facilities and their collaborators.

Dr. Wu earned his Ph.D. in computer engineering from University of Arizona. 

Most Recent Papers

Schon D, Umesh P, Cheah YW, Yu SY, Kissel E, Valivarthi R, Saglamyurek E, Ramakrishnan L, Wu W, Sipahigil A, Spiropulu M. The QUANT-NET testbed development and preliminary results. In2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) 2024 Sep 15 (Vol. 1, pp. 1799-1808). IEEE.

Yu, S.Y., Perego, E., Phillips, J., Cheah, Y.W., Umesh, P., Gao, G., Liu, J., Kissel, E., Bregar, M., Sun, K. and Wu, Q., 2025, August. A two-level control framework for quantum networks. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) (Vol. 1, pp. 1302-1311). IEEE.

Yu, S.Y., Zhang, L., Kissel, E., Wu, W. and Monga, I., 2025, September. An extensible control plane software architecture for quantum networking research. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (pp. 35-41).

Chan, C.H., Jain, C., Kissel, E., Wu, W., Barnes, E., Economou, S.E. and Monga, I., 2025. Theoretical Analysis and Simulations of Memory-based and All-photonic Quantum Repeaters and Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.23111.

Chan, C.H., Jain, C., Kissel, E., Wu, W., Barnes, E., Economou, S.E. and Monga, I., 2025, September. Modeling and Simulation of All-photonic Quantum Repeaters and Networks. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (pp. 28-34).

Jain, C., Chan, C.H., Kissel, E., Wu, W. and Monga, I., 2025, September. Modeling and Simulation of Trapped-ion Quantum Repeaters and Networks. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (pp. 1-7).

Chan, C.H., Jain, C., Kissel, E., Wu, W., Barnes, E., Economou, S.E. and Monga, I., 2025, August. A Comparative Study of All-Photonic and Memory-Based Quantum Repeaters and Networks. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) (Vol. 1, pp. 873-884). IEEE.

Yin, Y., Li, X., Schon, D., Chen, Z., Cheah, Y.W., Saglamyurek, E., Wu, W., Häffner, H. and Monga, I., 2025, March. Experimental Test of Bell-state Measurement for Narrow-band Ion-photon Interfaces in the QUANT-NET Testbed. In Optical Fiber Communication Conference (pp. M4E-4). Optica Publishing Group.