Professor
Biography
Gong Gu is a Professor in the Min H. Kao Department of EECS. He joined the UTK faculty in 2010 from Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton, NJ, where he had worked after getting his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1999. His current research activities and interest are in the growth and manipulation of two-dimensional (2D) and other new materials, investigation of their novel physics, and exploration of their applications in electronics. He wishes to explore the use of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms to solve optimization and search problems in physics and engineering, such as the survey of the energy landscape of a known compound to discover all metastable crystalline structures (polymorphs). Such computational discoveries will guide experimental synthesis, leading to new materials with novel properties.