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Assistant Professor
CIS
rbi@udel.edu
Applying quantum computing principles to expand the scale of current ML methods and match the growing scale of health data.

Assistant Professor
PHYS & MSEG
cchakrab@udel.edu
Research Interests: Quantum technologies using photons and semiconductor spins in integrated nanophotonic and nanomechanical devices.

Professor
PHYS
chui@udel.edu

Professor
ECE
jgf@udel.edu
Research Interests: Quantum information theory; quantum error correction.

Professor
MATH
mahya@udel.edu
Limit theory of discrete structures such as graphs, graph signals, or games. Applications of functional and harmonic analysis in combinatorial problems with infinite or noncommutative nature.

Professor
ECE
tingyigu@udel.edu
Research Interests: Integrated nanophotonic devices for localized light-mater interaction.

Associate Professor
CHEM and PHYS
larsg@udel.edu
Research Interests: Advanced spectroscopy of ultrafast phenomena in novel quantum materials with a focus on THz spectroscopy.

Associate Professor
PHYS
yji@udel.edu
Research Interests: Spin transport phenomena in nanoscale metallic structures fabricated by advanced lithography with potential applications in spintronics and magnonics. Experimental exploration toward efficient generation, transport, and utilization of a pure spin current and fundamental studies of relevant physics.

Assistant Professor
PHYS
akanane@udel.edu
Research Interests: Understanding mechanisms of decoherence in model and real systems at the fundamental level using a combination of theory, calculations, and machine learning.

Assistant Professor
PHYS
mku@udel.edu
Research Interests: Development of quantum sensing technology and its applications to study quantum materials; engineering quantum systems based on spin qubits, e.g. nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond.

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Associate Professor
CIS
liliao@udel.edu
Research Interests: Quantum algorithms and computation for optimization problems in machine learning and bioinformatics.

Associate Professor
MATH
madiman@udel.edu
Research Interests: Information theory; probability; convex geometry.

Associate Professor
MSEG
cni@udel.edu
Research Interests: Probing and understanding electron beam induced transport phenomena in nanostructures; Probing and understanding sub-nanometer factors that control uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy.

Professor
PHYS
bnikolic@udel.edu
Research Interests: Entanglement in quantum many-body systems; open quantum systems and decoherence.

Professor
MSEG
opila@udel.edu 

Assistant Professor
CIS
xipeng@udel.edu
Research Interests: Modeling extreme-scale and ever-evolving scientific data with machine learning and quantum computing. Interpreting and understanding dynamics through data-driven approaches.

Professor and Chair
ECE
jphilli@udel.edu
Research Interests: Semiconductor quantum dots (III-V epitaxial); optoelectronic device modeling, fabrication, and characterization; high performance photodetectors.

Professor
MATH
QSE Graduate Committee
plechac@udel.edu
Research Interests: mathematical anc computational methods for modeling quantum materials, hybrid quantum-classical algorithms stochastic analysis and algorithms.
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Professor
ECE
vsaxena@udel.edu
Research Interests: Electronic and photonic integrated circuits (ICs) for quantum computing. Platforms for heterogeneous integration. Understanding of noise sources and error correction schemes at the circuit level.

Professor
MATH
todorov@udel.edu
Research Interests: Cooperative quantum games and the use of entanglement resources. Games on graphs and quantum graphs, mathematical aspects of quantum game theory. Transmission of quantum information with zero error, capacities of quantum channels.

Assistant Professor
ECE
tsoutsos@udel.edu
Research Interests: Applied cryptography (including post-quantum algorithms and quantum key distribution).

Assistant Professor
CIS
amotong@udel.edu
Quantum and hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for optimization and machine learning. Quantum combinatorial optimization.

Assistant Professor
MSEG
wangxi@udel.edu
Research Interests: Quantum emitters, reconfigurable nanophotonics, strain engineering, and dynamically tunable devices enabled by MEMS/NEMS, phase-transition materials, and semiconductor plasmonics.

Professor
PHYS
jqx@udel.edu
Research Interests: Development of magnetic heterostructures and devices (including van der Waals 2D magnets), and investigation of control and manipulation of magnons and their interaction with microwave photons.

Assistant Professor
ECE
yzeng@udel.edu
Applying innovative material design and fabrication techniques to develop high performance electronic and optoelectronic device technology using nanomaterials.

Professor
MSEG
zide@udel.edu
Research Interests: MBE of semiconductors, quantum dots, materials for optoelectronic devices, terahertz, etc.