Faculty
Andrew Adamczyk
Assistant ProfessorChemical Engineering
- Multiscale modeling
- Computational chemistry
- Reaction pathway analysis
- Quantum materials
Mark Adams
Godbold Professor and Director of Alabama Micro/Nano Science and Technology CenterElectrical and Computer Engineering
- Quantum communication
- Quantum key distribution
- Quantum sensing
- Optical and microwave entangled sources
Richard Chapman
Associate ProfessorComputer Science and Software Engineering
- Quantum algorithms
- Quantum architectures
- Quantum Information theory
Siyuan Dai
Assistant ProfessorMaterials Engineering
- Low-dimensional materials
- Light-matter interactions
- Quantum optics
Byron Farnum
Assistant ProfessorChemistry and Biochemistry
- p-Type semiconductors
- Metal oxide nanocrystals
- Electron transfer mechanisms
Michael Hamilton
James B. Davis ProfessorElectrical and Computer Engineering
- Superconducting materials and devices
- Microwave and quantum engineering
- Entangled photon sources
- Quantum sensing
Wencan Jin
Assistant ProfessorPhysics
- Novel electronic and magnetic phases in quantum materials
- Interface engineering in vdW heterostructures
- Synchrotron-based photoemission spectroscopy/microscopy
Marcelo Kuroda
Associate ProfessorPhysics
- Quantum phenomena arising at Interfaces
- Computational design of materials
- Quantum transport
Masoud Mahjouri-Samani
Godbold Associate ProfessorElectrical and Computer Engineering
- Quantum materials synthesis (e.g., two-dimensional materials)
- Quantum materials processing (doping, alloying, defect engineering, heterostructures)
- Quantum materials diagnostics (real-time process monitoring via optical characterization)
- Quantum materials device integration and characterization (electronics, optoelectronics, photonics)
Evangelos Miliordos
Assistant ProfessorChemistry and Biochemistry
- Electronic structure calculations
- Computational catalysis
- Transition metal chemistry
- Expanded metals
Luke Oeding
Associate ProfessorMathematics and Statistics
- Representation theory of tensors
- Quantum information theory and algebraic geometry
- Foundations of machine learning
Tae-Sik Oh
Assistant ProfessorChemical Engineering
- Transport phenomena of quantum materials
- Gas-quantum material interface characterization
- Environmental application of quantum materials
- Quantum materials under harsh condition
Vincent Ortiz
Ruth W. Molette ProfessorChemistry and Biochemistry
- Ab initio molecular electronic structure theory
- Propagator methods for calculation of spectra and properties
- Interpretations of chemical bonding with Dyson orbitals
- Electronic structure of anions, clusters and biomolecules
Konrad Patkowski
S. D. and Karen H. Worley Associate ProfessorChemistry and Biochemistry
- Quantum chemistry method development
- Weak intermolecular interactions
- Electron correlation in molecules and clusters
- Teaching quantum chemistry programming with interactive notebooks
Filip Pawłowski
Assistant Research ProfessorChemistry and Biochemistry
- Development and efficient implementation of highly-accurate, quantum-chemical methods
- Cluster perturbation theory and response function theory)
- Teaching graduate courses focused on state-of-the-art quantum-chemical methods
Levent Yilmaz
Alumni ProfessorComputer Science and Software Engineering
- Quantum information processing
- Quantum cognition
- Quantum models of knowledge representation