Quantum Information Science Initiative

Faculty List

Dr. Shengwang Du, Professor, Department of Physics

General Research Interests: Experimental quantum optics, quantum networks, laser cooling and trapping, atomic physics, nonlinear optics, optical neural networks and artificial intelligence, optical microscopy for material nanostructures and bioimaging, experimental mechanics.

Research Interests in QIS: Experimental quantum optics, quantum networks, optical neural networks and computation

Website: https://personal.utdallas.edu/~dusw

Email: dusw@utdallas.edu

Dr. Michael Kolodrubetz, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

General research interests: Non-equilibrium quantum systems, Floquet systems, non-equilibrium topology, cavity QED, quantum measurements, quantum circuits

Research interests in QIS: Entanglement in quantum algorithms, structure of computations in near-term noisy quantum devices, optimization and characterization of measurement through quantum control

Website: https://labs.utdallas.edu/mkolodru/

Email: mkolodru@utdallas.edu

Dr. Bing Lv, Associate Professor, Department of Physics

General research interests: Experimental quantum materials, strongly correlated electron systems, thermal materials, topological materials, 2D materials, and heterostructure of different kinds. 

Research interests in QIS: Experimental quantum materials, superconducting quantum computation, quantum sensor, and possibly single photon source for quantum communications

Website: https://personal.utdallas.edu/~blv/

Email: blv@utdallas.edu

Dr. Anton Malko, Professor, Department of Physics

General research interests: optoelectronic properties of various nanomaterials, including perovskites, TMDs, quantum dots and semiconductors.

Research interests in QIS: various single photon sources/quantum materials for quantum communications.

Website: https://labs.utdallas.edu/malkolab/

Email: anton.malko@utdallas.edu

Dr. Xiaoyan Shi, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

General research interests: Dr. Shi studies the low-temperature electronic transport properties of quantum materials and devices, including superconductors, topological materials, and two-dimensional electron gas in semiconductors and heterostructures. His research focuses on the fundamental physics of many-electron systems and the quantum nature of emergent phenomena in those systems.

Research interests in QIS: Dr. Shi studies the physical realization and experimental manipulation of quantum bits based on topological materials.

Website: https://personal.utdallas.edu/~xshi/

Email: xshi@utdallas.edu

Dr. Anvar Zakhidov, Professor, Department of Physics

General research interests: Perovskite and Molecular Optoelectronics and Photovoltaics, Carbon nanotube/Graphene based Energy Harvesting and energy storing Devices.

Research interests in QIS: Superconducting nanostructures of novel materials and nanocomposites, particularly superconducting nanowires based on CNT composites, tunable by ionic gating. Search for novel superconductors by ultrasensitive method of Microwave absorption in magnetic field MMA

Website: https://profiles.utdallas.edu/anvar.zakhidov

Email: zakhidov@utdallas.edu

Dr. Chuanwei Zhang, Professor, Department of Physics

General Research Interests: Theoretical quantum information science, ultracold atomic gases, topological condensed matter physics, nanophotonics, 2D materials

Research Interests in QIS: Quantum Simulation, topological quantum computation, ultracold atom qubits, quantum networks

Website: https://personal.utdallas.edu/~chuanwei.zhang/

Email: chuanwei.zhang@utdallas.edu

Dr. Fan Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Physics

General research interests: correlated electrons, topological matter, and 2D materials

Research interests in QIS: quantum many-electron physics

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/zhangfansetsail/home

Email: zhang@utdallas.edu