Shamsul Arafin
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Email: arafin.1@osu.edu
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Email: arafin.1@osu.edu
Shamsul Arafin pursues experimental research in compound III-V semiconductor nanotechnology for materials and devices. His research interests center around classical devices such as diode lasers, and LEDs; quantum devices including single-photon-emitters and -detectors; as well as classical/quantum photonic integrated circuits.
Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: baker.2364@osu.edu
Prof. Baker specializes in ultrafast XUV and soft x-ray spectroscopy to study charge and spin dynamics in semiconductors with applications in photocatalysis and fast information processing. He is also the director of the National eXtreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NeXUS).
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF ENgineering
Email: shanker.32@osu.edu
Shanker's research interests include all aspects of computational electromagnetics (frequency and time domain integral equation based methods, multi-scale fast multipole methods, fast transient methods, higher order finite element and integral equation methods), propagation in complex media, mesoscale electromagnetics, and particle and molecular dynamics as applied to multiphysics and multiscale problems.
Marc Bockrath is studying quantum dots in two-dimensional materials towards realizing novel qubits as well as their higher-dimensional analogs called qudits.
Prof Bu's research interests include quantum information and computation, mathematical physics, quantum Fourier analysis, quantum machine learning, and quantum resource theory.
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: chowdhury.24@osu.edu
Prof. Chowdhury’s group studies materials in extreme conditions of interaction with high and ultra-high intensity lasers, by which materials may be exposed to light intensities more than 100 billion-billion times the intensity of sunlight on the earth.
The Agostini-DiMauro Atomic Physics Research Group focuses on the interaction between atoms and intense laser pulses on an atomic timescale (attoseconds).
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: ghazisaeidi.1@osu.edu
The Ghazisaeidi Group uses atomic-scale computations- electronic structures and classical potentials- coupled to larger length-scale continuum and statistical mechanics to improve and predict the properties of existing and new materials. We also develop new techniques that extend the applicability of electronic structure calculations to a broader range of applications.
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: goldberger.4@osu.edu
The Goldberger Group is a materials chemistry lab whose major focus is to design new materials for next-generation electronics and devices, catalysis, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Our lab is multidisciplinary, combining synthetic organic, inorganic, and solid-state chemistry techniques, with insight and property measurements from the condensed-matter physics, materials science, and biomedical communities.
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: grassman.5@osu.edu
Dr. Tyler Grassman's research group focuses on the development, production, and characterization of novel materials and combinations of materials for electronic and photonic applications. Of particular focus is the area of photovoltaics, as well as other clean energy technologies.
Prof. Gupta's research group focuses on developing scanning tunneling microscope techniques to deterministically place and control single quantum point defects in a variety of materials, ranging from bulk semiconductors to 2D insulators.
The Hammel lab develops and applies techniques for ultra-sensitive detection of magnetic resonance to the study of magnets and multi-component spintronic materials. We are particularly interested in probing and understanding the high frequency magnetic dynamics of ferro- and antiferromagnets with a goal of controlling properties of small numbers of spins and discovering and enhancing applications of magnets to spin transport and spin-based information science.
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: hatami.2@osu.edu
Dr. Pooya Hatami is an assistant professor in the theory group at the Computer Science and Engineering department. His research interests lie broadly in theoretical computer science, particularly pseudorandomness and randomness in computational complexity.
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: herbert.44@osu.edu
Research in the Herbert group is aimed at extending ab initio electronic structure theory ("quantum chemistry") to large systems. We are especially interested in condensed-phase spectroscopic experiments that probe the electronic states of molecules, radicals, and ions in aqueous solution and at the air/water interface.
Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: heremans.1@osu.edu
Prof Heremans research interests include experimental investigation of electron, phonon and spin transport properties, semiconductor, semimetals, topological and magnetic materials and nanostructures.
Prof Hill is a member of the CMS Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses on experimental high energy physics.
Co-Director, Professor
Physics
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: johnston-halperin.1@osu.edu
Prof. Johnston-Halperin’s research focuses on studies of coherent spin and magnetization dynamics, synthesis of magnetic materials, and prototype device development for spintronics and quantum information applications.
Prof. Johnston-Halperin is leading the NSF-funded education initiative QuSTEAM: Convergent Undergraduate Education in Quantum Science Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics.
Joshua and his collaborators work on aspects of error correcting codes with applications to quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation. He is an algebraic geometer/K-theorist by training and is primarily focused on applying higher dimensional algebraic varieties and techniques from algebraic geometry to construct high performance error-correcting codes for use in fault-tolerant quantum computation.
Our research focuses on the fascinating properties of spin, magnetism, and topology in quantum materials including 2D materials, 2D magnets, topological insulators, topological magnets, and skyrmion materials. We synthesize new materials and heterostructures controlled at the atomic level using molecular beam epitaxy and mechanical exfoliation, and utilize a suite of advanced measurements to probe the spin currents, magnetic order, electronic states, and their dynamics.
Prof. Kerler’s research focuses on the structure of quantum algebras, their representation theory, quantum invariants in low-dimensional topology, and other mathematical topics related to topological quantum field theory.
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF Engineering
Email: krishna.53@osu.edu
The Krishna Infrared Detector (KIND) lab designs, grows, fabricates and tests advanced semiconductor detector architecture for a variety of applications ranging from remote sensing, imaging, lidar, optical communications and quantum information sciences.
Professor Lafyatis' expertise includes optical lattices, optical wave guides, and optical tweezers.
The Lau group studies quantum materials, phenomena and devices. We are currently investigating the electrical, spin, optical and mechanical transport properties of monolayer, few-layer and twisted few layer graphene.
The Lu group is a theoretical physics group working in the area of Condensed Matter Physics. They use quantum mechanics and statistical physics to study quantum many-body systems. Their efforts can be summarized in three categories: 1. To classify and characterize quantum phases of matter 2. To understand the phase transitions between them 3. To comprehend and predict physical properties of solid state materials.
Prof Mathur's area of expertise is in High Energy Theory.
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: mccomb.29@osu.edu
David W. McComb is the Director of the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS). His research in Advanced Electron Microscopy techniques targets the development and application of electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) as a sub-nanometer scale probe of chemistry, structure, and bonding. He has extensive experience in the application of EELS to the study of problems in solid-state chemistry and materials science including structural and compositional variations in high-k oxides, short range magnetic order in transition metal oxides, interfaces in fuel cells, photovoltaics and multiferroics. He is currently developing methods for variable temperature high-energy resolution EELS for the study of phonons and magnons in the scanning transmission electron microscope.
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: moreno.244@osu.edu
Prof Moreno's research falls within the broad area of systems, and most of it within the sub-areas of Compilers & Programming Languages, intersecting with Quantum and High Performance Computing (HPC).
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: musah.3@osu.edu
Dr. Musah’s research focuses on scaling data rates and improving the reliability of ultra-high-speed communication and sensing circuits and systems in advanced CMOS process technologies and beyond. This has extended his research interest to include alternative and emerging computing architectures, low-latency physical layer security and hardware-efficient sensing algorithms.
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: myers.1079@osu.edu
The Myers group's research focuses on discovery of new materials and their properties. We use molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to grow epitaxial heterostructures (III-Nitride Optoelectronics), which allows engineering electronic and magnetic properties at nanometer length scales (Magnetic Epitaxial Superlattices: stabilizing a new form of Fe2O3 in Ga2O3). We study the length and time scale of such magnonic spin curents (Spin-Heat Coupling: Spin Caloritronics). Quantum materials and defects in wide band gap materials are also a current focus of our research (1D Quantum Defects).
David’s work involves exploring novel ways to apply quantum photonic techniques in microwave photonics systems.
Prof. Penneys conducts research in operator algebras, quantum algebra, and category theory with applications to topological order in theoretical condensed matter physics.
The Randeria Group works on several problems in Quantum Condensed Matter Theory including: correlated and topological phases in quantum materials, skyrmions and chiral magnets, superconductivity and strong correlations, Superconductor-Insulator Transitions, and Cold Atoms.
Co-Director, Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF Engineering
Email: randeria.1@osu.edu
Prof. Reano currently leads the Integrated Optics Laboratory. His research focuses on chipscale waveguide integrated photonics for innovation in sensors, communications systems, and computing in the classical and quantum domains. His group specializes in silicon photonics and lithium niobate on insulator.
The Singh group will focus on building next-generation quantum devices and quantum information processors to explore the ways the universe operates, particularly at the scale of individual atoms.
Brian is a theorist who is broadly interested in dynamical and transport phenomena in quantum many-body systems. One line of his work considers random quantum processes and is focused on identifying phase transitions that can occur in the dynamics of quantum information.
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: sokolov.8@osu.edu
The Sokolov group develops and applies new theoretical methods in quantum chemistry to simulate the excited-state and spectroscopic properties of chemical systems with complex electronic structure. Research projects relevant to the mission of CQISE include the theoretical studies of molecular and solid-state qubits with accessible spin.
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: sumption.3@osu.edu
Michael is the associate director of the Center for Superconducting and Magnetic Materials, as well as the Superconducting Technology Center. His area of research is materials science with a concentration in superconductive, electronic, and magnetic materials.
Fernando’s interests lie in scientific computing for quantum-optical metamaterials, quantum plasmonics, and macroscopic QED.
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: thomas.3877@osu.edu
Synthesis of well-defined paramagnetic transition metal complexes and exploration of their electronic structure, spin states, and magnetic properties using EPR spectroscopy, SQUID magnetometry, and computational methods.
The research in Professor Nandini Trivedi’s group focuses on the effects of strong interactions in condensed matter systems and ultracold atoms in optical lattices.
Prof Turro's research interests focus on design and investigation of the properties and time-resolved dynamics of new photomagnetic materials containing transition metal complexes that undergo spin transitions upon excitation with visible light.
Assistant Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: wade.521@osu.edu
The Wade Lab focuses on the synthesis and characterization metal-organic materials and molecules. They use a variety of solution and solid-state characterization techniques to elucidate structure and properties, including X-ray diffraction, gas porosimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, ICP-OES, cyclic voltammetry, and NMR, IR, and UV-Vis spectroscopies.
Fengyuan Yang's group grows high quality epitaxial films of magnetic and topological materials and investigate their spin transport, high frequency dynamics, magnonics properties at room to very low temperatures.
Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
COLLEGE OF arts and sciences
Email: zadrozny.13@osu.edu
The Zadrozny lab studies nuclear and electron spin dynamics in metal-containing molecules. Our multidisciplinary effort entails synthetic chemistry, physical inorganic methods, and magnetic resonance spectroscopies, among other techniques.
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
COLLEGE OF engineering
Email: zhu.3445@osu.edu
Prof Zhu's research interests include machine learning, big data, wireless networks, cybersecurity and privacy, quantum networking and distributed computing, cyber-physical systems, autonomous vehicles and UAVs, renewable energy and sustainable technologies, smart health and smart communities.
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