Faculty and Research
Work with award-winning and innovative faculty who are dedicated mentors.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
MSQT Program Director
SCI 264
hilary.hurst@sjsu.edu
Specialization: Condensed matter theory; many-body atomic physics including quantum feedback control,
topological phases
and dissipative quantum systems.
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5235
SCI 312
ehsan.khatami@sjsu.edu
Specialization: Computational condensed matter physics, strongly-correlated electronic systems, quantum machine learning
Hiu Yung Wong
Associate Professor, 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
Kassahun Betre
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5210
SCI 240
kassahun.betre@sjsu.edu
Specialization: High-energy theory, quantum gravity
Christopher Smallwood
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
408-924-5270
SCI 248
christopher.smallwood@sjsu.edu
Specialization: Experimental optics and materials spectroscopy
Birsen Sirkeci
Professor, Electrical Engineering
(408) 924 2913
ENG 359
birsen.sirkeci@sjsu.edu
Specialization: Wireless communications, sensor networks, statistical signal processing, and machine learning.
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
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
SCI 322
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
