[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":216},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fstories\u002Fkevin-singh":3},{"id":4,"type":5,"path":6,"published":7,"publishDate":8,"author":9,"taxonomy":10,"headerType":13,"image":14,"video":18,"title":20,"subtitle":21,"hideFromSearchEngines":11,"social":22,"bodyBlocks":26,"slug":154,"description":155,"metaDescription":156,"metaTitle":11,"relatedStories":157,"created":205,"changed":206,"breadcrumbs":207},"0ba089a4-0600-49a9-8bd8-c4fe90003245","story","stories\u002Fkevin-singh",true,"October 27, 2026","Ross Bishoff",{"name":11,"slug":12},null,"","image",{"url":15,"alt":16,"caption":17},"\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fstyles\u002Fwidescreen\u002Fpublic\u002Fmedia\u002Fimage\u002F2026\u002F10\u002Fkevinsingh_quantumcomputer17384_hero.jpg","A portrait of Kevin Singh with wiring in front of him.","Kevin Singh said he decided to pursue his research at Ohio State in part because of the large pool of students available to recruit for his interdisciplinary quantum physics lab. \"Ohio State is really doing a fantastic job of predicting the direction society is going,\" he said. (Corey Wilson)",{"url":11,"transcript":19},{"text":11},"Building the future, one atom at a time","Kevin Singh is building the quantum devices that will reshape our world",{"title":23,"description":24,"imageUrl":25},"Meet the physicist building tomorrow's quantum technology","From pioneering quantum computers to laying groundwork for a quantum internet, Kevin Singh is helping shape the future from Ohio State.","\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fmedia\u002Fimage\u002F2026\u002F10\u002Fkevinsingh_quantumcomputer17384_social.jpg",[27,34,40,46,52,58,64,74,80,86,92,98,104,118,124,130,136,142,148],{"blockName":28,"attrs":29,"innerBlocks":31,"innerHTML":32,"innerContent":33},"core\u002Fparagraph",{"uuid":30},"76144960",[],"\u003Cp>Ohio State physicist Kevin Singh is building one of the largest neutral-atom quantum computers in the world. Right now. From his lab on campus.\u003C\u002Fp>",[32],{"blockName":28,"attrs":35,"innerBlocks":37,"innerHTML":38,"innerContent":39},{"uuid":36},"48377794",[],"\u003Cp>He’s also leading an Ohio project to lay the groundwork for a future quantum internet. It’s technology that could reshape computing, cybersecurity and the future of science.\u003C\u002Fp>",[38],{"blockName":28,"attrs":41,"innerBlocks":43,"innerHTML":44,"innerContent":45},{"uuid":42},"8531fde2",[],"\u003Cp>Sounds like heavy stuff. Until you talk to Singh about it. He speaks about the work as someone who’s never lost his excitement or sense of wonder.\u003C\u002Fp>",[44],{"blockName":28,"attrs":47,"innerBlocks":49,"innerHTML":50,"innerContent":51},{"uuid":48},"03422976",[],"\u003Cp>“I’ve always been fascinated with \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.energy.gov\u002Fscience\u002Fdoe-explainsquantum-mechanics\">quantum mechanics\u003C\u002Fa>. What we produce is beautiful and it’s fun,” said \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.singhgrouposu.com\u002F\">Singh, assistant professor of physics\u003C\u002Fa>. “I often have these moments when I’m just amazed by it all.\u003C\u002Fp>",[50],{"blockName":28,"attrs":53,"innerBlocks":55,"innerHTML":56,"innerContent":57},{"uuid":54},"ba27563d",[],"\u003Cp>“Once you are doing this kind of research, it’s hard to leave because you feel you have purpose. You know you are satisfying your internal human desire to understand what’s around you. Building these devices, it puts you into the fabric of existence. What motivates me is trying to learn more about the nature of reality.”\u003C\u002Fp>",[56],{"blockName":28,"attrs":59,"innerBlocks":61,"innerHTML":62,"innerContent":63},{"uuid":60},"a046e807",[],"\u003Cp>As an experimentalist, Singh builds large-scale programmable quantum devices that promise to unlock a new era of computing, tackling certain problems unimaginably faster than conventional machines. Think of impenetrable cybersecurity, life-saving medical breakthroughs or stock-market predictions in moments.\u003C\u002Fp>",[62],{"blockName":65,"attrs":66,"innerBlocks":71,"innerHTML":72,"innerContent":73},"media-text\u002Fbux-quote",{"quote":67,"author":68,"source":69,"uuid":70},"“Ohio is one of the top states for getting new businesses and corporations. And where technology is going, electronics will only get smaller, so everyone will need to know quantum mechanics.\"","Kevin Singh","Assistant professor of physics","4b56f08a",[],"\u003Cbux-quote class=\"wp-block-media-text-bux-quote\">\u003Cspan slot=\"quote\">“Ohio is one of the top states for getting new businesses and corporations. And where technology is going, electronics will only get smaller, so everyone will need to know quantum mechanics.\"\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan slot=\"author\">Kevin Singh\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan slot=\"source\">Assistant professor of physics\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fbux-quote>",[72],{"blockName":28,"attrs":75,"innerBlocks":77,"innerHTML":78,"innerContent":79},{"uuid":76},"6f079af1",[],"\u003Cp>Quantum computers do this by harnessing the behavior of matter and energy at the smallest scales to dwarf the capabilities of the most powerful conventional computers. However, today's quantum computers remain limited, error-prone and as large and unwieldy as the original computers of the 1940s.\u003C\u002Fp>",[78],{"blockName":28,"attrs":81,"innerBlocks":83,"innerHTML":84,"innerContent":85},{"uuid":82},"915ed097",[],"\u003Cp>“You walk into my lab and everything around you is the quantum computer,” Singh laughs. “It's a full room of optics, lasers, electronics and vacuum chambers orchestrated together by a very large classical computer to be the fully functioning quantum apparatus.” \u2029\u003C\u002Fp>",[84],{"blockName":28,"attrs":87,"innerBlocks":89,"innerHTML":90,"innerContent":91},{"uuid":88},"c7c9db0a",[],"\u003Cp>As expected, companies like IBM and Google are making huge investments to advance the technology rapidly. But academic campuses, it turns out, are doing some of the best work in the nation. And Ohio State, with its \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fquantum.osu.edu\u002F\">Center for Quantum Science and Engineering\u003C\u002Fa>, is emerging as a powerhouse for quantum research, anchoring the state and the Midwest as a potential national hub.\u003C\u002Fp>",[90],{"blockName":28,"attrs":93,"innerBlocks":95,"innerHTML":96,"innerContent":97},{"uuid":94},"d28e3bed",[],"\u003Cp>Singh is key to that rise, especially his pioneering work in areas such as \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fopticalscience.osu.edu\u002Fevents\u002Fdual-species-neutral-atom-quantum-processors-kevin-singh-osu\">neutral atom arrays\u003C\u002Fa> — using a single laser beam to hold a single atom and move it around to build the computer.\u003C\u002Fp>",[96],{"blockName":28,"attrs":99,"innerBlocks":101,"innerHTML":102,"innerContent":103},{"uuid":100},"0901b7ff",[],"\u003Cp>“The world’s best quantum computers are the way my group builds them,” says Singh, who arrived at Ohio State in early 2025. “(Our current) computer is maybe the fifth or sixth largest in the world right now, it just needs other bells and whistles to be fully functioning, but our aim is to be one of the world’s largest.”\u003C\u002Fp>",[102],{"blockName":105,"attrs":106,"innerBlocks":115,"innerHTML":116,"innerContent":117},"core\u002Fimage",{"id":107,"sizeSlug":108,"linkDestination":109,"mediaAttrs":110,"uuid":114},5008,"full","none",{"data-entity-type":111,"data-entity-uuid":112,"data-image-style":113},"file","974052a6-b053-4c01-a2c4-47806a929f56","original","e42ba165",[],"\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003Cimg src=\"\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Finline-images\u002Fkevinsingh_quantumcomputer17368_secondary.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5008\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"974052a6-b053-4c01-a2c4-47806a929f56\" data-image-style=\"original\"\u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Atomic physicist Kevin Singh, with students working with The Singh Group, a new research laboratory in the Department of Physics. The group focuses on building next-generation quantum devices and quantum information processors to explore the ways our universe operates, particularly at the scale of individual atoms. (Corey Wilson)\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>",[116],{"blockName":28,"attrs":119,"innerBlocks":121,"innerHTML":122,"innerContent":123},{"uuid":120},"95dd4897",[],"\u003Cp>Singh was recruited to Ohio State because of his \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fphysics.osu.edu\u002Fnews\u002Fprofessor-singh-published-nature-physics\">groundbreaking research\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cstrong>. \u003C\u002Fstrong>He came here because the university offered generous financial support for the laboratory and because of the large pool of students available to recruit for his interdisciplinary lab, built on a team work ethic.\u003C\u002Fp>",[122],{"blockName":28,"attrs":125,"innerBlocks":127,"innerHTML":128,"innerContent":129},{"uuid":126},"e75bfbdb",[],"\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>“\u003C\u002Fstrong>There’s a lot to know to build these,” Singh says. “There’s a lot of coding, engineering, lasers, optics, vacuum chambers, plumbing… it’s all aspects of engineering, electronics and physics. We can teach you all that. But the most important skill I look for is teamwork. Otherwise, it all falls apart.\u003Cstrong>” \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>",[128],{"blockName":28,"attrs":131,"innerBlocks":133,"innerHTML":134,"innerContent":135},{"uuid":132},"2b3f24ab",[],"\u003Cp>Since he began building his lab, he’s gone from two Ph.D. students to another seven undergrads. Singh says that the university plans to add more quantum computing researchers and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. quantum program, of which there are only a handful in the country.\u003C\u002Fp>",[134],{"blockName":28,"attrs":137,"innerBlocks":139,"innerHTML":140,"innerContent":141},{"uuid":138},"f9a045dc",[],"\u003Cp>“Ohio State is really doing a fantastic job of predicting the direction society is going,” Singh says. “Ohio is one of the top states for getting new businesses and corporations. And where technology is going, electronics are only going to get smaller, so everyone will need to know quantum mechanics to build future technologies. So the obvious choice is to invest in quantum.”\u003C\u002Fp>",[140],{"blockName":28,"attrs":143,"innerBlocks":145,"innerHTML":146,"innerContent":147},{"uuid":144},"ba25c266",[],"\u003Cp> To illustrate this, Singh became principal investigator on \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fohiofrn.org\u002Fprojects\u002Fohio-state-university-photonic-interfaces-atom-based-quantum-processors\">a project late last year to lay the groundwork for a future statewide quantum internet\u003C\u002Fa> that could scale up quantum computing by connecting the technology across the country. This project is in partnership with NASA John Glenn Research Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and researchers at SRICO, Inc and Denison University – all in Ohio.\u003C\u002Fp>",[146],{"blockName":28,"attrs":149,"innerBlocks":151,"innerHTML":152,"innerContent":153},{"uuid":150},"e0ae4d64",[],"\u003Cp>“We need to be able to build something everyone can tap into,” Singh says. “This is the building block for that future quantum Internet, and we’re building it in the state of Ohio.”\u003C\u002Fp>",[152],"kevin-singh","Ohio State physicist Kevin Singh is building advanced quantum computers and helping lead efforts to create a future quantum internet in Ohio.","Ohio State physicist Kevin Singh is building one of the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computers and helping advance a future quantum internet.",[158,171,188],{"slug":159,"path":160,"title":161,"description":162,"subtitle":163,"taxonomy":164,"image":165,"video":168,"hideFromSearchEngines":11,"hasVideo":170},"entrepreneurship-haven","stories\u002Fentrepreneurship-haven","A haven for entrepreneurs","Ohio State’s startup ecosystem helps students turn ideas into ventures through mentorship, funding, research opportunities and a growing culture of entrepreneurship.","Ohio State’s startup culture is where ideas, opportunities and guidance intersect",{"name":11,"slug":12},{"url":166,"alt":167},"\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fmedia\u002Fimage\u002F2026\u002F08\u002Fentrepreneurship4.jpg","Ohio State student entrepreneurs discuss their work at a table",{"url":11,"transcript":169},{"text":11},false,{"slug":172,"path":173,"title":174,"description":175,"subtitle":176,"taxonomy":177,"image":178,"video":181,"hideFromSearchEngines":11,"hasVideo":170},"alan-luo","stories\u002Falan-luo","Lighter, stronger, tougher","Ohio State Distinguished University Professor Alan Luo develops lightweight, high-strength alloys that improve manufacturing, sustainability and vehicle efficiency while mentoring Ohio State engineers.","Alan Luo’s discoveries are building more efficient, sustainable vehicles",{"name":11,"slug":12},{"url":179,"alt":180},"\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fmedia\u002Fimage\u002F2026\u002F09\u002F20260630_wilson_dup_alanluo_16730.jpg","Alan Luo works in his lab while speaking with a colleague.",{"url":182,"transcript":183,"image":185},"https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002F_ll-qG54diM",{"text":11,"file":184},"\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-09\u002Fdup2026_alanluo_transcript.txt",{"url":186,"alt":187},"\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002F2026-09\u002F20260630_wilson_dup_alanluo_16730.jpg","A scientist in a lab talks to a colleague with research material around him.",{"slug":189,"path":190,"title":191,"description":192,"subtitle":193,"taxonomy":194,"image":195,"video":198,"hideFromSearchEngines":11,"hasVideo":170},"brent-sohngen","stories\u002Fbrent-sohngen","Forestry dollars and sense","Brent Sohngen, an Ohio State forestry economist, studies how forests create economic and environmental value, helping shape practical climate solutions.","This world-renowned researcher calculates the economic value of trees and how nature can combat climate change",{"name":11,"slug":12},{"url":196,"alt":197},"\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fmedia\u002Fimage\u002F2026\u002F09\u002Fsohngen_1.jpg","Distinguished University Professor (DUP) awardee Brent Sohngen at Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve where he particpates in a survey collaboration between the university and the Little Miami Watershed Network as part of the Little Miami River Corridor Recreation Study”. 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