Faculty and Research
Work with award-winning and innovative faculty who are dedicated mentors.
Hilary Hurst
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
MSQT Program Director & Advisor
408-924-5284
DH 644
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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
DH 644
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Specialization: Computational condensed matter physics, strongly-correlated electronic systems, quantum machine learning
Hiu Yung Wong
Professor, AMDT Endowed Chair, 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
DH 651
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Specialization: High-energy theory, quantum gravity
Christopher Smallwood
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5270
DH 239
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Specialization: Experimental optics and materials spectroscopy
Birsen Sirkeci
Professor & Associate Chair, Electrical Engineering
408-924-3913
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
408-924-5272
DH 335
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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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