Featured Alumni
Our goal with this listing is to provide details about a person’s first position after leaving IQIM, and additional current information if possible. If you have additional information you would like to include, please send an email to marcia.brown@caltech.edu.
All Postdoc Alumni
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alagic, Gorjan | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2014 | Preskill | Associate Research Scientist at QuICS and UMIACS |
| Albert, Victor | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2020 | Preskill | Permanent Staff, NIST |
| Babadi, Mehrtash | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2016 | Refael | Computational Biologist, Broad Institute |
| Bao, Ning | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2017 | Preskill | current: Brookhaven National Lab, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley |
| Bardyn, Charles | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2016 | Refael | Postdoctoral Research fellow, University of Geneva |
| Berta, Mario | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2017 | Brandao, Preskill | current: AWS Research Scientist; Faculty, University College of London |
| Cooper-Roy, Alexandre | MA-1, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2019 | Endres | Research Associate, Senior Technical Lead – IQC, Waterloo University |
| Covey, Jacob | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Endres | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Crosson, Elizabeth | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2017 | Preskill | Associate Professor of Physics, University of New Mexico |
| Delfosse, Nicholas | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2017 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research |
| Faist, Philippe | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Preskill, Brandão | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dahlem Center, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Fang, Kejie | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2017 | Painter | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois |
| Fawzi, Omar | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2015 | Preskill | Assistant Professor, ENS Lyon |
| Fink, Johannes | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2016 | Painter | Assistant Professor, IST Austria |
| Gheorghiu, Andru | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Vidick | ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies |
| Gopalakrishnan, Sarang | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2016 | Refael | City University of New York, Staten Island |
| Gorshkov, Alexey | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc; Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Fellow | 2013 | CMT, Preskill | Adjunct Assistant Professor JQI – NIST |
| Gosset, David | MA-1 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | 2016 | Preskill, Vidick | Associate Professor, University of Waterloo |
| Groeblacher, Simon | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2014 | Painter | Asst Professor at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology |
| Gu, Zhengcheng | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2013 | Preskill | current: Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Hou, Chang-Yu | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2014 | Refael | Senior Visiting Scientist, Schlumberger-Doll Research |
| Huang, Yi-Chen | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2018 | Xie Chen | current: Postdoctoral Scholar MIT; Microsoft Research |
| Jeffery, Stacey | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2016 | Preskill, Schulman, Vidick | Scientific Staff Member CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), The Netherlands |
| Jiang, Liang | MA-1 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | 2012 | CMT, Preskill | current: University of Chicago; Asst Professor of Applied Physics, Yale |
| Jiang, Shenghan | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Xie Chen | Assistant Professor, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences in Beijing |
| Kato, Kohtaro | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Brandão | Assistant Professor, Osaka University, Japan |
| Keller, Andrew | MA-1, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2019 | Painter | Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Kemmer, Jeannette | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc | 2019 | Nadj-Perge | attocube systems, Germany |
| Kueng, Richard | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2020 | Preskill | Faculty, Johannes Kepler University |
| Landon-Cardinal, Olivier | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2015 | Preskill | Faculty, University of Montreal |
| Li, Ke (Carl) | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2017 | Brandao | Faculty, CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information |
| Lindner, Netanel | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2013 | Preskill, Refael | Assistant Professor Condensed Matter & Materials Physics, Technion Israel Institute of Technology |
| Lucia, Angelo | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2021 | Preskill | Ramon y Cajal Fellow, Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Milsted, Ashley J. | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Preskill | Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Mirhosseini, Mohammad | MA-1, MA-3 | KNI Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Materials Science | 2019 | Painter | Faculty, Caltech Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics |
| Mong, Roger | MA-1 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | 2016 | Alicea, Motrunich, Refael, Vidick | Assistant Professor of Physics, Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, University of Pittsburgh |
| Natarajan, Anand | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Vidick, Preskill | Assistant Professor, EECS department, MIT |
| O’Connor, Tomas Jochym | MA-1 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | 2019 | Preskill | Research Staff Member, IBM |
| Paraiso, Taofiq | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2014 | Painter | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light |
| Pastawski, Fernando | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2016 | Preskill | current: PsiQuantum; Postdoctoral Scholar, Freie Universität, Berlin |
| Peng, Yang | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Assistant Professor, CSU Northridge |
| Pekker, David | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc; Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Fellow | 2015 | Refael, Endres, CMT | Assistant Professor of Physics, Univ of Pittsburgh |
| Ren, Hechen | MA-1, MA-2 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2019 | Nadj-Perge | Faculty, Center for Joint Quantum Studies, Tianjin University |
| Riedel, Daniel | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Faraon | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
| Sahinoglu, Mehmet Burak | MA-1 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Simons Qubit Fellow | 2019 | Preskill | current: PsiQuantum; Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Salton, Grant | MA-1 | Postdoc | 2020 | Preskill | Quantum Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Sipahigil, Alp | MA-1, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Painter | Assistant Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley |
| Song, Justin | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | 2016 | Refael | Assistant Professor of Physics, Nanyang Technical University – Singapore |
| Su, Yuan | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2021 | Brandão | current: Sr. Researcher, Microsoft; Research Scientist, Google |
| Temme, Kristan | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2015 | Preskill, Vidick | Research Staff, IBM |
| Wang, Ling | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2015 | Motrunich, Preskill | Research Asst Professor at Beijing Computational Science Research Center |
| Wright, John S. | MA-1 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Preskill, Vidick | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| Yoshida, Beni | MA-1 | Postdoc, David & Ellen Lee Postdoctoral Scholar | 2015 | Preskill | current: Faculty at Perimeter Institute; prior: Five Year Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute |
| Ardonne, Eddy | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2007 | current: Assoc. Professor Stockholm University; Dec 2007- Nov 2012 Asst. Professor, Nordita; | |
| Beigi, Salman | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2011 | Preskill | current: Faculty, School of Mathematics IPM; 2011-15 Senior Associate Researcher IPM (Iran) |
| Blume-Kohout, Robin | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2010 | Research Associate Professor, Univ of New Mexico/ Technical Staff Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque | |
| Boixo, Sergio | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2010 | Research Associate Professor, Computer Scientist – University of Southern California/ISI | |
| Bose, Sougato | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2002 | Current: Professor, University College London | |
| Bravyi, Sergey | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | IBM Research, New York | ||
| Chang, Darrick | MA-1, IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2011 | Preskill | Professor ICFO |
| Childs, Andrew | IQI | Postdoc, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar (IQI) | 2007 | Assoc Professor, Univ of Maryland | |
| Doherty, Andrew | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | Current: Associate Professor, Univ of Sydney | ||
| Duan, Luming | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2003 | Current: Professor, Univ of Michigan | |
| Fidkowski, Lukasz | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2010 | Current: Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University | |
| Flammia, Steve | MA-1, IQI | Postdoc | 2012 | Preskill | Current: Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services; prior: Associate Professor, Univ of Sydney |
| Hallgren, Sean | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | Current: Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University | ||
| Hayden, Patrick | IQI | Postdoc (IQI); Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | 2004 | Current: Stanford Professor of Quantum Physics | |
| Jordan, Stephen | MA-1, IQI | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | 2011 | Preskill | NIST and Adjunct Associate Professor Univ of Maryland |
| Koenig, Robert | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2011 | Current: Assistant Professor, Technical Univ Munich | |
| Kong, Liang | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2009 | Current: Associate Member,Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University | |
| Leung, Debbie | IQI | Postdoc (IQI); Tolman Fellowship | 2004 | Professor, Canada Research Chair, Univ of Waterloo | |
| Lindner, Netanel | MA-1, MA-2, IQI | Postdoc | 2013 | Preskill, Refael | Assistant Professor Condensed Matter & Materials Physics, Technion Israel Institute of Technology |
| Liu, Yi-Kai | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | NIST and Adjunct Associate Professor Univ of Maryland | ||
| Nayak, Ashwin | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2002 | Current: Professor, University of Waterloo | |
| Pironio, Stefano | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2010 | “Professor, Université Libre de Bruxelles” | |
| Poulin, David | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2006 | Professor, University of Sherbrooke | |
| Raussendorf, Robert | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2006 | Associate Professor, University of British Columbia | |
| Reichardt, Ben | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2008 | Assistant Professor, University of Southern California | |
| Schuch, Norbert | MA-1, IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2012 | Preskill | Current: Research Group Leader at Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics |
| Shi, Yaoyun | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2002 | Associate Professor, University of Michigan | |
| Shtengel, Kirill | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | Professor, UC Riverside | ||
| Terhal, Barbara | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2001 | Professor, RWTH Aachen | |
| Verstraete, Frank | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2006 | Professor, University of Vienna | |
| Vidal, Guifre | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2005 | Professor, Perimeter Institute | |
| Wehner, Stephanie | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2010 | Current: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at the Delft University of Technology/ QuTech | |
| Wocjan, Pawel | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2006 | Professor, Univ of Central Florida | |
| Zhang, Shengyu | IQI | Postdoc (IQI) | 2009 | Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartholomew, John | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Faraon | Lecturer & Director, Quantum Integration Laboratory, University of Sydney |
| Baum, Yuval | MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Refael | Quantum Control Engineer at Q-CTRL |
| Bergman, Doron | MA-2 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | June 2013 | CMT | Data Scientist and Walmart Labs. Current (2015): Data Physicist at Tachyus |
| BenTov, Yoni | MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Sept-2018 | Kitaev | Postdoctoral Scholar, Perimeter Institute |
| Buchhold, Michael | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Clarke, David | MA-2 | Postdoc; visiting scholar | 2014 | Alicea | Research Associate, Univ of Maryland |
| Duran, Alberto de la Torre | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Hsieh | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University |
| Essin, Andrew | MA-2 | Postdoc | Fall-2016 | Alicea, Motrunich | Visiting Assistant Professor, UC Davis |
| Gorshkov, Alexey | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc; Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Fellow | Fall-2013 | CMT, Preskill | Adjunct Assistant Professor JQI – NIST |
| Haim, Arbel | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Harter, John | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Fall-2017 | Hsieh | Asst Professor, UC Santa Barbara, Materials Dept |
| Huang, Yi-Chen | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Aug-2018 | Xie Chen | Microsoft Research |
| Jiang, Liang | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | June 2012 | CMT, Preskill | June 2012, Asst Professor of Applied Physics, Yale |
| Jiang, Shenghan | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Xie Chen | Assistant Professor, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences in Beijing |
| Karzig, Torsten | MA-2 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Sept 2015 | Refael, Alicea | Lead Researcher, Microsoft Research, Station Q |
| Kemmer, Jeannette | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc | 2019 | Nadj-Perge | Menlo Systems |
| Knapp, Christina | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael, Alicea | Microsoft Quantum – Santa Barbara Station Q |
| Laurita, Nick | MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Hsieh | Quantum Group of Transformational Computing at Northrup Grumman |
| Mross, David | MA-2 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2016 | Alicea | Assistant Professor, Weizmann Institute |
| Mishmash, Ryan | MA-2 | Postdoc; DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar | Jan-2018 | Alicea | Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton |
| Peng, Yang | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Assistant Professor, CSU Northridge |
| Ren, Hechen | MA-1, MA-2 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2019 | Nadj-Perge | Industry position |
| Reuther, Johannes | MA-2 | Postdoc | 2014 | CMT | Asst Professor of Physics, Freie Univ Berlin |
| Ron, Alon | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Hsieh | Zuckerman Faculty Scholar, Tel Aviv University |
| Rudner, Mark | MA-2 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2012 | Refael | Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen |
| Song, Justin | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc; Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar | Jan-16 | Refael | Assistant Professor of Physics, Nanyang Technical University – Singapore |
| Torchinsky, Darius | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Aug 2015 | Hsieh | Asst Professor of Physics, Temple Univ |
| van Nieuwenburg, Evert | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute |
| Wilson, Justin | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Fall 2018 | Refael | Postdoctoral Scholar, Rutgers University |
| Zhao, Liuyan | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Nov 2016 | Hsieh | Asst Professor of Physics, University of Michigan |
| Zhong, Tian | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Spring 2018 | Faraon | Asst Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago |
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartholomew, John | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Faraon | Lecturer & Director, Quantum Integration Laboratory, University of Sydney |
| Baum, Yuval | MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Refael | Quantum Control Engineer at Q-CTRL |
| Berta, Mario | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2017 | Brandao, Preskill | Faculty, University College of London |
| BenTov, Yoni | MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Sept-2018 | Kitaev | Postdoctoral Scholar, Perimeter Institute |
| Buchhold, Michael | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Cooper-Roy, Alexandre | MA-1, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2019 | Endres | Research Associate, Senior Technical Lead – IQC, Waterloo University |
| Covey, Jacob | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Endres | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Duran, Alberto de la Torre | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Hsieh | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University |
| Faist, Philippe | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2019 | Preskill, Brandão | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dahlem Center, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Fang, Kejie | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2017 | Painter | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois |
| Haim, Arbel | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Harter, John | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2017 | Hsieh | Asst Professor, UC Santa Barbara, Materials Dept |
| Huang, Yi-Chen | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Aug-2018 | Xie Chen | Microsoft Research |
| Jiang, Shenghan | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Xie Chen | Assistant Professor, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Sciences in Beijing |
| Kato, Kohtaro | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Brandão | Assistant Professor, Osaka University, Japan |
| Keller, Andrew | MA-1, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2019 | Painter | Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Knapp, Christina | MA-1, MA-2 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael, Alicea | Microsoft Quantum – Santa Barbara Station Q |
| Laurita, Nick | MA-2, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Hsieh | Quantum Group of Transformational Computing at Northrup Grumman |
| Li, Ke | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2017 | Brandao | |
| Mirhosseini, Mohammad | MA-1, MA-3 | KNI Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics and Materials Science | 2019 | Painter | Visiting Associate, Caltech |
| Paraiso, Taofiq | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2014 | Painter | Max Planck Institute for the Science of LIght |
| Pekker, David | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc; Lee A. DuBridge Postdoctoral Fellow | 2015 | Refael, Endres, CMT | Assistant Professor of Physics, Univ of Pittsburgh |
| Riedel, Daniel | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Faraon | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University |
| Ron, Alon | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Hsieh | Zuckerman Faculty Scholar, Tel Aviv University |
| Sipahigil, Alp | MA-1, MA-3 | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2020 | Painter | Assistant Professor, EECS, UC Berkeley |
| Su, Yuan | MA-1, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2021 | Brandão | Research Scientist, Google |
| Suh, Josephine | MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Kitaev | Postdoctoral Fellow, KITP |
| Torchinsky, Darius | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2016 | Hsieh | Assistant Professor, Temple University |
| van Nieuwenburg, Evert | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2020 | Refael | Assistant Professor, Niels Bohr Institute |
| Wilson, Justin | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Fall 2018 | Refael | Postdoctoral Scholar, Rutgers University |
| Zhao, Liuyan | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | 2016 | Hsieh | Asst Professor of Physics, University of Michigan |
| Zhong, Tian | MA-2, MA-3 | Postdoc | Spring 2018 | Faraon | Asst Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago |
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asenjo Garcia, Ana | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | 2018 | Kimble | Faculty, Columbia University |
| Botimer, Jeffrey | Affiliate | Postdoc | Oct-2018 | Schwab | Sr. Project Scientist, Northrup Grummond |
| Burgers, Alex | Affiliate | Postdoc | 2019 | Kimble | Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University |
| Eichholz, Johannes | Affiliate | Postdoc | 2019 | Adhikari | Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University |
| Henriksen, Erik | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Eisenstein | Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Hung, Chen-Lung | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Kimble | Asst Professor of Physics, Purdue University | |
| Kamai, Brittany | Affiliate | Postdoc | 2019 | Adhikari | Heising-Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship, Joint appointment UC Santa Cruz/Caltech |
| Lee, Jae Hoon | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Jan-2014 | Kimble | Senior Scientist, Korean Institute of Standards |
| Lee, Seung Hoon | Affiliate | Postdoc | 2017 | Vahala | Senior Hardware Engineer, Apple |
| Li, Jiang | Affiliate | Staff Scientist | Vahala | President, hQphotonics | |
| Lu, Mingwu | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | July-2016 | Kimble | NIST, Laser Cooling and Trapping Group |
| Martin, Mike | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Oct-2015 | Kimble | Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque |
| Pollanen, Johannes | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Jan-2016 | Eisenstein | Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque |
| Smith, Nicolas | Affiliate | Postdoc | 2015 | Adhikari | Imaging Scientist, Google |
| Suh, Junho | Affiliate | Postdoc | Schwab | Senior Research Scientist, Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science | |
| U, Chandni | Affiliate | IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar | Dec-2016 | Eisenstein | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Wade, Andrew | Affiliate | Postdoc | 2019 | Adhikari | Research Fellow, Australian National University |
All Graduate Student Alumni
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arora, Harpreet | MA-1, MA-2 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Nadj-Perge | Boston Consulting Group |
| Baumgartner, Alexander | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | Fall 2017 | Endres | Intern at QNAMI, Switzerland |
| Berger, Brett | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2018 | Painter | Software Engineer, Cruise Automation |
| Beverland, Michael | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2016 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Scholar in Quantum Computing, Microsoft Research |
| Titum (Bhattacharjee), Paraj | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2016 | Refael | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Maryland |
| Blasius, Tim | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2016 | Painter | New position not yet confirmed |
| Brooks, Peter | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2013 | Preskill | Research Staff Physicist, HRL Laboratories |
| Chan, Jasper | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2012 | Painter | Current: CTO Massdrop |
| Cohen, Justin | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2015 | Painter | Lead Scientist, Booz Allen Hamilton |
| Coladangelo, Andrea | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Vidick | Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley |
| Cvitkovic, Milan | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Vidick | Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Dalzell, Alex | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2022 | Preskill, Brandao | Researcher, Amazon Web Services |
| Dieterle, Paul | MA-1, MA-3 | Undergraduate alum | 2017 | Painter | Graduate Student at Harvard University |
| Fang, Michael | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Painter | Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services |
| Fefferman, Bill | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2014 | Preskill | Current: Research Assistant Professor in QuICS |
| Fishman, Matthew | MA-1 | Graduate alum | June 2018 | Preskill | Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation |
| Haah, Jeongwan | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2013 | Preskill | Current: Microsoft Research; 2014 – Pappalardo Fellow, MIT |
| Hill, Jeff | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2013 | Painter | Physical Research Associate at the Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford |
| Hunter-Jones, Nick | MA-1 | Graduate alum | Fall 2018 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Scholar, Perimeter Institute |
| Iverson, Joe | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Preskill | Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Iyer, Shankar | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2013 | Refael | Staff Data Scientist, Quora |
| Kalaee, Mahmoud | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Painter | Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services |
| Kim, Isaac Hyun | MA-1, IQI | Graduate alum | 2013 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Scholar, Perimeter Institute |
| Kim, Kun Woo | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2014 | Refael | Research Fellow, Korea institute for advanced study |
| Komar, Anna | MA-1 | Graduate alum | Fall 2018 | Preskill | Data Scientist, Shipwell |
| Krause, Alex | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2015 | Painter | Associate at Exponent, Inc. |
| Kubica, Aleksander | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2017 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Researcher, Perimeter Institute |
| Liu, Junyu | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2021 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago |
| MacCabe, Gregory | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | August 2018 | Painter | Advanced Concepts Modeling & Simulation Analyst, Millennium Space Systems |
| Maguire, Shaun | MA-1 | Graduate alum | June 2018 | Preskill | Partner, Google Ventures |
| Meenehan, Sean | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2015 | Painter | Researcher, HRL Laboratories |
| Norte, Richard | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2015 | Painter | Postdoctoral Researcher – TU Delft |
| Safavi-Naeini, Amir | MA-1 | Graduate alum | 2013 | Painter | Asst Professor of Applied Physics, Stanford University |
| Shukla, Sujeet | MA-1 | Graduate alum | Fall 2017 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington |
| Wang, Zitao | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Chen | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| Yunger Halpern, Nicole | MA-1 | Graduate alum | Sept 2018 | Preskill | Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University |
| Zhang, Yong-Liang | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Chen |
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aasen, David | MA-2 | Graduate alum | June 2018 | Alicea | Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Santa Barbara & Microsoft Station Q |
| Arora, Harpreet | MA-1, MA-2 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Nadj-Perge | Boston Consulting Group |
| Chen, Chien-Chang | MA-2 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Yeh | Permanent Staff, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. |
| Chew, Aaron | MA-2 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Alicea | Postdoctoral Scholar, Princeton |
| Chu, Hao | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | Jan 2018 | Hsieh | Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck-UBC-UTokyo Center, Stuttgart, Germany |
| Craiciu, Ioana | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Faraon | Postdoctoral Scholar, JPL |
| Deshpande, Tejas | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Hsieh | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago |
| Hsu, Chen-Chih | MA-2 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Yeh | Permanent Staff, Applied Materials |
| Kindem, Jon | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Faraon | Postdoctoral Scholar, JILA/University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Lee, Shu-Ping | MA-2 | Graduate alum | 2015 | Refael | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Alberta |
| Miyazono, Evan | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | June 2017 | Faraon | Research Scientist, Protocol Labs |
| Mozgunov, Evgeny | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2017 | Kitaev | Research Associate, USC (Lidar Group) |
| Seetharam, Karthik | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2018 | Refael | Quantum Architect, PsiQ |
| Tu, Min-Feng | MA-2 | Graduate alum | Summer 2018 | Alicea | Assistant Professor of the Practice in Physics, Wesleyan University |
| Wang, Chuting | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Faraon | R&D Engineer, MinebeaMitsumi, Japan |
| Wang, Zitao | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Chen | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| White, Christopher | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Refael | Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center |
| Zhang, Yong-Liang | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Chen |
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baumgartner, Alexander | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | Fall 2017 | Endres | Intern at QNAMI, Switzerland |
| Berger, Brett | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2018 | Painter | Software Engineer, Cruise Automation |
| Chan, Jasper | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2012 | Painter | Current: CTO Massdrop |
| Chu, Hao | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | Jan 2018 | Hsieh | Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck-UBC-UTokyo Center, Stuttgart, Germany |
| Craiciu, Ioana | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Faraon | Postdoctoral Scholar, JPL |
| Dalzell, Alex | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2022 | Preskill, Brandao | Researcher, Amazon Web Services |
| Deshpande, Tejas | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Hsieh | Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago |
| Dieterle, Paul | MA-1, MA-3 | Undergraduate alum | 2017 | Painter | Graduate Student at Harvard University |
| Fang, Michael | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Painter | Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services |
| Kalaee, Mahmoud | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Painter | Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services |
| Kindem, Jon | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Faraon | Postdoctoral Scholar, JILA/University of Colorado, Boulder |
| MacCabe, Gregory | MA-1, MA-3 | Graduate alum | August 2018 | Painter | Advanced Concepts Modeling & Simulation Analyst, Millennium Space Systems |
| Miyazono, Evan | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | June 2017 | Faraon | Research Scientist, Protocol Labs |
| Mozgunov, Evgeny | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2017 | Kitaev | Research Associate, USC (Lidar Group) |
| Seetharam, Karthik | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2018 | Refael | Quantum Architect, PsiQ |
| Wang, Chuting | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Faraon | R&D Engineer, MinebeaMitsumi, Japan |
| Wang, Zitao | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Chen | Research Scientist, Facebook |
| White, Christopher | MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2019 | Refael | Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center |
| Zhang, Yong-Liang | MA-1, MA-2, MA-3 | Graduate alum | 2020 | Chen |
| Name | MA | Academic Title | Departure date | Research Group | Position/Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alton,Daniel | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2013 | Kimble | Hardware Program Manager, Microsoft |
| Chen, Tong | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2013 | Vahala | Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company |
| Chickering, William | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2016 | Eisenstein | Current: Data scientist Cuberon |
| DeLorenzo, Laura | Affiliate | Graduate alum | Summer 2016 | Schwab | Research Staff HRL Laboratories |
| Geraedts, Scott | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2015 | Motrunich | Postdoctoral Scholar, Princeton |
| Goban, Akihisa | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2016 | Kimble | Research Associate, JILA |
| Helou, Bassam | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2019 | Adhikari | Research Scientist at Aptiv Autonomous Mobility |
| Hood, Jonathan | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2017 | Kimble | Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard University (Ni Group) |
| Korth, Zach | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2018 | Adhikari | Engineering Physicist, Senseseeker |
| Lai, Hsin-Hua | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2012 | Motrunich | Smalley Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University |
| Lai, Yu-hung | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2019 | Vahala | Senior Research Engineer, OEwaves Inc. |
| Lei, Chan U | Affiliate | Graduate alum | Nov 2016 | Schwab | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale University |
| Lin, Cheng-Ju (Jacob) | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2019 | Motrunich | Postdoctoral Scholar, Perimeter Institute |
| McClung, Andrew | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2017 | Kimble | Postdoc, University of Ottawa (Badolato Group) |
| Nandi, Debaleena | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2015 | Eisenstein | Postdoctoral Scholar, Harvard |
| Oh, Dong Yoon | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2017 | Vahala | Senior Design Engineer, Rockley Photonics Inc. |
| Pang, Belinda | Affiliate | Graduate alum | June 2018 | Adhikari, Y. Chen | Research Associate, Theorem LP |
| Peng, Lucas | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2019 | Kimble | Physicist at AOSense, Inc |
| Silva, Juan Muniz | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2017 | Kimble | Research Associate, JILA (Thompson Group) |
| Suh, Myoung Gyun | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2019 | Vahala | Research Scientist, NTT Research |
| Wang, Yishu | Affiliate | Graduate alum | June 2017 | Rosenbaum | Postdoctoral Fellow of Institute for Quantum Matter at Johns Hopkins University |
| Weinstein, Ari | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2016 | Schwab | Research Staff HRL Laboratories |
| Wilson, Daziel | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2012 | Kimble | Postdoctoral Scholar, Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Wollman, Emma | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2015 | Schwab | Postdoctoral Scholar, Instrument Electronics and Sensors Section at JPL |
| Yang, Huan | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2013 | Y. Chen | Postdoctoral Scholar, Perimeter Institute |
| Yang, Kiyoul | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2017 | Vahala | Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford |
| Yeaton-Massey, David | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2016 | Adhikari | Northrup Grummond |
| Yi, Xu | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2017 | Vahala | Assistant Professor, University of Virginia |
| Yu, Su Peng | Affiliate | Graduate alum | 2017 | Kimble | Research Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder |