Affiliated Faculty

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Quantum expertise: Post-quantum cryptography for connected transportation; quantum-enhanced security for distributed AI; quantum threat modeling for cyber-physical systems

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Quantum expertise: Quantum machine learning; quantum benchmarking; NISQ quantum-HPC applications; agentic frameworks for quantum applications; side-channel attacks and defenses for quantum computing; compilation and optimization of quantum circuits for error-corrected machines

Department of Religious Studies
Quantum expertise: How science, including quantum physics, changes our understanding of what it means to be human and how we think of the natural world

Department of Physics
Quantum expertise: Theoretical hadronic and nuclear physics; field theory

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Superconducting quantum qubits and Josephson junctions

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Quantum expertise: Quantum machine learning algorithms; quantum forensics; quantum deepfake detection

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum computing, quantum optics, hardware and sensing, including quantum photonics, qubit control, diamond NV-center quantum sensors, quantum simulation of driven spin chains and quantum materials

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Two-dimensional superconductors and quantum gates; theoretical foundations for tunneling, entanglement and condensation in Bose-Einstein condensates; Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in two-dimensional superconducting systems

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum sensing with room-temperature nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamond magnetometers and deep learning to detect radio-silent unmanned aerial systems

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Quantum expertise: Applications-oriented theoretical quantum chemistry, including ab initio molecular orbital and density functional calculations of potential energy surfaces, reaction mechanisms and rate constants

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum machine learning for smart-grid operation, grid monitoring and anomaly detection; energy cybersecurity; quantum-safe critical infrastructure; intelligent energy systems

Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Quantum expertise: Wavelength-domain sensing and routing for quantum interconnects, using doped-nanoparticle sensors and chromatic-state sensing architectures
Victor Hugo Ortiz Hernandez
Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering
Quantum expertise: Spintronic quantum optics

Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics
Quantum expertise: Behavioral information systems research on how quantum computing and generative AI present users with relational, probabilistic and superposed entities

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum AI; quantum-enhanced machine learning; cybersecurity; embedded and edge devices

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Quantum expertise: Quantum-based security for IoT devices; quantum applications for proteomics


Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Quantum expertise: Post-quantum cryptography for the Internet of Things; quantum machine learning to detect cyberattacks on IoT networks

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum computing applications; quantum and classical algorithms and optimization; quantum machine learning and federated learning; post-quantum cryptography and crypto-agility; quantum-ready critical infrastructure

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum imaging and sensing; quantum devices; detectors for quantum photonic applications; quantum information science and engineering; integrated quantum systems

Applied Research Center
Quantum expertise: Quantum machine learning, including quantum neural networks, quantum LSTM and quantum generative models, for cybersecurity, high-energy physics and healthcare; hybrid quantum-classical AI; noise mitigation; quantum circuit optimization

Applied Research Center
Quantum expertise: Quantum workforce development and federal program alignment (DOE, DoD, IAEA) in the nuclear and critical minerals domains

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Quantum expertise: Quantum cybersecurity; post-quantum security; post-quantum security education and training; workforce development

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum machine learning and hybrid quantum-classical computing for cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection and scientific discovery; agentic AI for quantum workflow orchestration and circuit optimization

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quantum expertise: Quantum sensors, quantum networks

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences
Quantum expertise: Quantum machine learning; hybrid quantum-classical neural networks; quantum-enabled wireless and RF sensing; trustworthy quantum AI
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