Shamsul Arafin
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Email: arafin.1@osu.edu
Faculty
Meet the researchers and educators shaping Ohio State's quantum future. Our interdisciplinary team brings together experts in physics, engineering, computer science, and related fields who are advancing the frontiers of quantum information science and engineering. These faculty members lead groundbreaking research initiatives, develop innovative curricula, and collaborate with partners across academia and industry.
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.
Robert Baker
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).
Shanker Balasubramaniam
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.
Enam Chowdhury
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).
Maryam Ghazisaeidi
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.
Joshua Goldberger
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.
Tyler Grassman
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.
Pooya Hatami
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.
John Herbert
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.
Joseph Heremans
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.
Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin
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.
Sanjay Krishna
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.
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