K. Brown

Kevin Brown (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Physicist with the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL); an Adjunct Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Stony Brook University; and the Head of the Control Systems for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), BNL. He is the co-inventor of the storage ring quantum computer, a quantum information system based on particle accelerator and particle beam storage ring technologies. He began his career in experimental high-energy spin physics and moved into accelerator physics when BNL’s Alternating Gradient Synchrotron (AGS) was converted (in the mid-1980’s) to provide polarized beams for targeting polarized protons on polarized targets to study spin analyzing power in high-energy collisions. He was a member of the AGS Accelerator Physics (AP) Group for many years where he was a member of the Design and Commissioning Team, NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL). He was responsible for AGS extraction systems for fixed target experiments, including the G-2 experiment that ran from the AGS. He was a part of the Spin Dynamics Team that designed and commissioned the polarized proton systems for RHIC and he was a member of the RHIC Commissioning Team. Before moving to lead the Control Systems for RHIC, he was a member of the Collider-Accelerator Department AP Group, serving as a Scheduling Physicist for RHIC and an RHIC Run Coordinator. His current research interests include quantum information systems, the use of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) in design and simulation of accelerator systems, ML and AI in accelerator control systems, and developing the infrastructure for control system simulations.