Faculty and Research

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

 

Hilary Hurst

Hilary Hurst
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
MSQT Program Director & Advisor
408-924-5284
DH 644
hilary.hurst@sjsu.edu

Specialization: Condensed matter theory; many-body atomic physics including quantum feedback control, topological phases and dissipative quantum systems.

 

Ehsan Khatami

Ehsan Khatami
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5235
DH 644
ehsan.khatami@sjsu.edu 

Specialization: Computational condensed matter physics, strongly-correlated electronic systems, quantum machine learning

 

Hiu Yung Wong

Hiu Yung Wong
Professor, AMDT Endowed Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering
408-924-3910
ENG 363
hiuyung.wong@sjsu.edu 

Specialization: Quantum computing noise modeling, cryogenic semiconductor and circuit, quantum algorithm, machine learning

 

Dr. Betre

Kassahun Betre
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5210
DH 651
kassahun.betre@sjsu.edu

Specialization: High-energy theory, quantum gravity

 

Christpher Smallwood

Christopher Smallwood
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5270
DH 239
christopher.smallwood@sjsu.edu

Specialization: Experimental optics and materials spectroscopy

 

Birsen Sirkeci

Birsen Sirkeci
Professor & Associate Chair, Electrical Engineering
408-924-3913 
ENG 359 
birsen.sirkeci@sjsu.edu  

Specialization: Wireless communications, sensor networks, statistical signal processing, and machine learning. 

 

Shrikant Jadhav

Shrikant Jadhav
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
408-924-7279
ENG 367
shrikant.jadhav@sjsu.edu 

Specialization: FPGA-based High-Performance Systems, Reconfigurable Computing, Digital Systems, Embedded Systems, Hardware/Software Co-design

 

Curtis Asplund

Curtis Asplund
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5272
DH 335
curtis.asplund@sjsu.edu

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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