Faculty and Research

Work with award-winning and innovative faculty who are dedicated mentors.

Hilary Hurst
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
MSQT Program Director
SCI 264
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Specialization: Condensed matter theory; many-body atomic physics including quantum feedback control, topological phases
and dissipative quantum systems.

Ehsan Khatami
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5235
SCI 312
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Specialization: Computational condensed matter physics, strongly-correlated electronic systems, quantum machine learning

Hiu Yung Wong
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
408-924-3910
ENG 363
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Specialization: Quantum computing noise modeling, cryogenic semiconductor and circuit, quantum algorithm, machine learning

Kassahun Betre
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5210
SCI 240
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Specialization: High-energy theory, quantum gravity

Christopher Smallwood
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5270
SCI 248
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Specialization: Experimental optics and materials spectroscopy

Birsen Sirkeci
Professor, Electrical Engineering
(408) 924 2913 
ENG 359 
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Specialization: Wireless communications, sensor networks, statistical signal processing, and machine learning. 

Shrikant Jadhav
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
408-924-7279
ENG 367
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Specialization: FPGA-based High-Performance Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, Digital Systems, Embedded Systems, Hardware/Software Co-design

Curtis Asplund
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
SCI 322
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Specialization: High energy theoretical physics, entanglement entropy and complexity of quantum field theories and black holes, applications of gauge/gravity duality to condensed matter systems

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