Dr Coon has worked in the field of communications and networks for over 15 years. He spent a decade in industrial research labs (HP Labs and Toshiba Research Europe Ltd) before moving back to academia full time. Dr Coon's research interests include communication techniques and analysis, network theory, random graphs, quantum networks and sensing, and error correction for storage and communication channels. Within NQIT, he is working to develop an understanding of networked quantum sensors by studying fundamental properties of quantum information theory and its relationship to quantum estimation theory.