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Associate Professor, EECS

englund -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-525
617.324.7014--Tel

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Dirk Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002. After a Fulbright fellowship at T.U. Eindhoven, he completed an MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics at Stanford University in 2008. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, he joined Columbia University as Assistant Professor of E.E. and of Applied Physics. He joined the MIT EECS faculty in 2013. Recent recognitions include the 2011 PECASE, the 2011 Sloan Fellowship in Physics, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, the 2017 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award, and the OSA's 2017 Adolph Lomb Medal, a Bose Research Fellowship in 2018, and a 2020 Humboldt Research Fellowship.

PhD (Appl. Physics), Stanford (2008)
MS (Electrical Engineering), Stanford
BS (Physics), Caltech

Research Scientist

rhamerly -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

R.H. was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1988. He graduated from Boulder High School in 2006 and received a B.S. degree from Caltech in 2010, working with Prof. Yanbei Chen on black hole mergers. In 2016 he received a Ph.D. degree in applied physics from Stanford, for work with Prof. Hideo Mabuchi on quantum control, nanophotonics, and nonlinear optics. In 2017 he was at the National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo), working with Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto on quantum annealing and optical computing concepts. He is currently an IC postdoctoral fellow at MIT with Prof. Dirk Englund.

PhD (Applied Physics) Stanford (2016).
BS (Physics) Caltech (2010)

Research Scientist

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Room 36-517

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Dr. Mikkel Heuck received his M.Sc. degree in Applied Physics Engineering in 2009 and Ph.D. in 2013, both from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) under supervision of Prof. Jesper Mørk. In 2014 he joined Prof. Dirk Englund’s group at MIT as a Postdoctoral Fellow and in 2016 he returned to DTU with a Postdoc Fellowship to work in the group of Prof. Leif K. Oxenløwe. In 2019, he returned to Prof. Dirk Englund’s group as a Research Scientist. Dr. Heuck’s research interests are primarily centered around ultralow power nonlinear optics in photonic integrated circuits for classical and quantum applications including: Multiplexed single photon sources, photon-photon interactions for quantum logic gates, quantum control of photon wave packets using dynamically coupled cavities, nanophotonic cavity design, electro-optic modulation, and all-optical signal processing.

Administrative Assistant

balzer -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-825
617.253.7349--Tel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D (Materials Science & Engineering), KAUST, 2020

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D (Physics), LMU Munich (2019)

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Wenhan Dai received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering and the B.S. degree in mathematics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2011, and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2014 and 2020, respectively. His research interests include statistical inference, network science, communication theory, and their applications to wireless communication, network localization and navigation, and quantum information science.

PhD (AeroAstro), MIT (2020)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Mohamed earned his B.A. in physics and economics from Illinois Wesleyan University and PhD in physics from Case Western Reserve University. His research background is in femtosecond laser/matter interaction, nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials. His current research focuses on developing large-scale CMOS-backed photonics, including high-speed SLMs for quantum control.

LL.B. Alexandria Law School (2007), Masters (Law & political economy) Alexandria Law School (2009)

B.A. (physics and economics) Illinois Wesleyan University (2012)

Ph.D. (physics) Case Western Reserve University (2017).

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Room 36-517

Carlos Errando Herranz received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, 2013), and his PhD degree in Micro and Nanosystems from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 2018. He worked for a year as a postdoctoral researcher in the Quantum Nano Photonics group (KTH), and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Quantum Photonics, MIT.
Awards include the Swedish Research council Postdoctoral Fellowship, Best Student Paper Award at MEMS 2015 conference, Best Master Thesis at the Engineering School (2013), and second best thesis from the industrial engineer asociacion in Valencia (2013).
His research interests are quantum photonics, integrated photonics, and MEMS.

BS&MS (Electrical Engineering) UPV Valencia, Spain

PhD (Micro and Nanosystems) KTH Stockholm, Sweden

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Artur Hermans received his BSc degree in Engineering (Electronics and Information Technology) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2012. Afterwards, he entered the European MSc in Photonics program during which he spent a semester at Ghent University, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the University of St Andrews, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). At EPFL, he conducted his master's thesis research in the group of Professor T. J. Kippenberg. In 2014, he joined the Photonics Research Group at Ghent University, an associated lab of imec, to work on low-temperature processed thin films of second-order nonlinear optical materials for silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (under supervision of Professor R. Baets and Professor S. Clemmen). For this work he was awarded a PhD degree in 2019. Subsequently, he started working on III-V-on-silicon-nitride mode-locked lasers as a postdoctoral researcher in the Photonics Research Group (under supervision of Professor B. Kuyken).

BS (Engineering: Electronics and Information Technology) Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (2012)
European MS (Photonics) Ghent University, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, University of St Andrews, UK (2014).
PhD (Photonics Engineering) Ghent University, Belgium (2019).

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. (Physics) University of Washington (2020)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dalia earned her B.Sc. in physics from Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, in 2012 with honors for her bachelor thesis on dispersion in photonic crystal fibers. In 2020 she received a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Maryland, working on engineering quantum nonlinearities with interacting Rydberg atoms in the group of Trey Porto and Steve Rolston. Shortly after, she joined Clarice Aiello's group studying spin dynamics in cryptochrome as a postdoc. Her current research interest is developing platforms based on color centers in diamond for scalable quantum photonics.
Outside the lab, Dalia enjoys hiking, camping, baking, and cooking Mexican food.

B.Sc. (Physics), Guanajuato University, Mexico (2012).
Ph.D (Physics) University of Maryland (2020).

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Room 36-529

Postdoctoral Researcher

stefankr -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-517

Postdoctoral Researcher

amenssen -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-519

BS (Physics) Goethe Univ., Ger (2011)
M.Sc (Physics) Goethe Univ., Ger (2014)
PhD (Physics) Univ. of Oxford, UK (2019)

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Room 36-533

PhD (Physics), University of Paris-Saclay (2018). MS (Physics) University of Ferrara.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Room 36-535

Sivan Trajtenberg Mills recieved her BsC in Physics and Computer science from Tel Aviv Univeristy (TAU). She holds a PhD in Physics from TAU in the field of nonlinear optics, supervised by prof. Ady Arie. She was an officer in the Israeli defence forces in the field of cyber-security, and continued instructing high-school students in cyber related academic programs throughout her PhD. She has been active in promoting women in STEM. Outside the lab, she was a second-league vollyball player and referee, as well as part of a semi-proffesional classical Choir.

B.Sc. (Physics and computer science), Tel Aviv University, Israel
Ph.D (Physics) Tel Aviv University, Israel

Postdoctoral Researcher

PhD Student

ateshian -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Lamia received her BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 2018 with a minor in Engineering Physics. As an undergraduate, she did summer research at Princeton with Prof. Andrew Houck on microwave photonics. She also interned for a summer at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, where she used optics to study flexible membranes. Her junior year she was an exchange student at the University of Oxford in the Dept. of Engineering Science, where she did research on RF metamaterials. For her senior thesis, she worked with Prof. Paul Prucnal on optical thresholding using silicon photonic nonlinearities. Lamia is a recipient of a Goldwater Scholarship and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Outside of work, she enjoys ultimate frisbee and podcasts.

BSE (Electrical Engineering, Engineering Physics), Princeton 2018

PhD Student

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BS (EE) Purdue (2019)

PhD Student

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Room 36-517

Saumil received his S.B. and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2017 and 2018, respectively. For his work on room-temperature nanowire infrared detectors, Saumil received the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Youth Award in 2013. As an undergraduate, he worked in several areas, including 2D materials at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, novel materials for receivers in free-space optical communication at Facebook's Connectivity Lab, and modeling of long-haul fiber-optic networks for the Telecom Infra Project with Facebook's Network Hardware Engineering team. For his Master's thesis, Saumil worked on frequency conversion systems for enabling distributed quantum networks with diamond color centers. Since then, his work has transitioned to silicon photonic integrated circuits for classical and quantum information processing. Before starting his PhD, Saumil worked on silicon photonics as a Senior Photonics Engineer at Elenion Technologies. Saumil is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory.

SB, Electrical Science and Engineering, MIT (2017)

MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2018)

PhD Student

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Room 36-537

Liane received her Bachelor of Engineering from Polytechnique Montreal in 2016, specializing in Photonics. There, in the groups of Profs. Frédéric Leblond and Caroline Boudoux, she worked extensively on advancing biomedical imaging techniques such as Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography. Subsequently, Liane took up a summer internship at Photon Etc, where she worked on improving the signal-to-noise ratio of hyperspectral imagers. In fall 2016, Liane started her graduate work in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, where in 2018, she earned her Master of Science for “Ultrahigh-Resolution, Deep-Penetration Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography” in Prof. Andy Yun’s group. She is currently developing both theoretical descriptions as well as experimental demonstrations of optical deep neural networks in the Quantum Photonics Laboratory. Outside the lab, Liane loves to climb rocks and play the flute.

BEng (Engineering Physics), Polytechnique Montreal (2016)
MS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2018)

Order of the White Rose Scholarship (2016)
FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship (2016-2018)
NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (2018-2021)

PhD Student

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Room 36-535

Eric received his BA from Harvard in 2014 with a double major in {Biomedical Engineering} and {Chemistry & Physics}, working with Mikhail Lukin on nanoscale NMR. After graduating, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to work on cavity optics at Ludwig-Maximillian Univeristy of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Eric joined the Quantum Photonics Lab in Fall of 2015, where he is a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow, and works on large-scale characterization of defect center properties, quantum frequency down-conversion, and multi-qubit control and readout. Outside of the lab, Eric is a Resident Tutor at one of Harvard's houses, sings with the Jameson Singers choir, and works with MIT's Science Policy Initiative to promote scientifically-minded policy decisions and encourage science literacy in the broader public.

AB (Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry & Physics), Harvard (2014)

PhD Student

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Room 36-531

BS (Electrical Engineering), Seoul National University (2014)

SM (EECS), MIT (2017)

PhD Student

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Room 36-535

Ian received his BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Washington. There, he worked with Professor Kai-Mei Fu on nitrogen-vacancy center quantum computation. Ian will continue similar work in the Quantum Photonics Lab.
Ian runs kinda fast.

BS (Math, Physics) University of Washington (2017)

Recipient of the QISE-NET award.

PhD Student
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PhD Student

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PhD Student

sophiayd -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-529

Sophia received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2019, where she worked on 2D ferroelectric material and p-bits simulation with Prof. Peide Ye and Supryio Datta. Later on, she spent a year exploring micro-robotics at Prof. Robert Wood lab, where she worked on designing robust and power-autonomous micro-bee. Inspired by the beauty of nature, Sophia joined the Quantum Photonics Lab at MIT to work on vertical cavity with artificial atom array. She is a recipient of Edwin Webster Fellowship. Outside of the lab, Sophia is a traditional/contemporary dance choreographer at MIT ADT, a classical musician, and renaissance art and Assyriology enthusiast.

B.S. (EE) Purdue University (2019)

PhD Student

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BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), The Citadel (2015)

PhD Student

jordango -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-523
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Jordan Goldstein received S.B.'s in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT in the summer of 2014. After spending a year as an undergraduate doing photonic design for diamond-based quantum photonic research in Prof. Englund's group, he shifted his research focus towards graphene optoelectronics where he is currently working on telecommunications, sensing and network applications. He is currently funded by MIT Course 6's E. E. Landsman fellowship, although next year he will begin accepting funding from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Jordan is most strongly motivated by applications which tangibly impact people's lives. He is also motivated by interesting design problems and novel phenomena which can be used to improve technology. Although he is most comfortable with the abstraction levels of device physics and device-level photonics, he is eager to gain understanding and insight by delving into the lower-level behavior of the materials he works with, and to reinforce and optimize the usefulness of his research from a system-level point of view. Outside of the office, he enjoys linear combinations of cooking, gardening, DIY projects and music. He performs in MIT's Gamelan Galak Tika.

SB (Physics), MIT
SB (Electrical Engineering), MIT

PhD Student

ibwharri -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-531

B.A.Sc. (Nanotechnology Engineering) University of Waterloo, Canada (2018)

PhD Student

hlarocqu -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-519

Hugo completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at the University of Ottawa where he worked with Ebrahim Karimi and Robert Boyd on generating and characterizing topologically structured waves. The methods that he developed there involve applications in several fields including quantum cryptography, electron microscopy, materials science, nonlinear optics, and fundamental physics. Hugo joined the Quantum Photonics Lab as a graduate student in 2018.

B.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2016).

M.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2018).

PhD Student

linsenli -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-531

Linsen Li received his BS in Microelectronics from Tsinghua University in 2019. He was a gold medal winner in the 16th Asian Physics Olympiad in 2015. As an undergraduate, he was awarded the Tsinghua Presidential Award, the highest honor in Tsinghua University. He has pursued the advanced curriculum and undertaken several research projects during his undergraduate period at Tsinghua University, MIT, and Stanford University. Linsen Li is a recipient of the Analog Devices Fellowship in MIT EECS. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, skiing, and golf.

BS (Microelectronics), Tsinghua University (2019)

PhD Student

hwmoon -at- mit -dot- edu
Room 36-523

MS (EECS), Seoul National University (2012)
BS (EE), Seoul National University (2010)

PhD Student

cpanuski -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-521

Christopher received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the United States Naval Academy in 2017. During his time at Academy, Chris worked on the development of radar signal processing algorithms as an intern at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, created digital image reconstruction techniques at the DoD Cyber Crime Center, and began initial research in photonics. His senior research thesis focused on the development of a mechanically mediated RF-to-optical transducer using integrated photonics. Following graduation, he was commissioned as a cryptologic officer in the United States Navy and, with the support of the Hertz Fellowship and the MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship, joined the Quantum Photonics Group as a PhD student. At MIT, he is excited to further explore integrated photonics in an effort to advance the fields of quantum cryptography, communications, and enhanced sensing.
Outside of the lab, Chris shares his passion for aviation as a volunteer flight instructor, and enjoys investigating the relationship between leadership and innovation in technical organizations.

BS (Electrical Engineering and Physics), United States Naval Academy (2017)

PhD Student

mihika -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-521

SB (Electrical Engineering), MIT (2015)
SB (Physics), MIT (2015)

PhD Student

raniwala -at- mit -dot- edu

B.S. (Applied Physics) California Institute of Technology (2020)

PhD Student

asludds -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-537

Alex received his Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2018. His research interests include the application of optics to data management and access for computation as well as novel techniques for interfacing CMOS and Photonic Systems.

BS (EECS) MIT 2018

PhD Student

mmsutula -at- mit -dot- edu

Room 36-533

Maddie received an S.B. from MIT in 2019 with a double major in Materials Science and Engineering and Physics. There, they worked in the Moodera group towards the observation of triplet-pair superconductivity in novel films. During a semester abroad at Oxford University, Maddie worked with Dr. Natalia Ares to design tunable low-frequency 2D cavities. Maddie is supported by a NASA NSTGRO Fellowship. Outside of the lab, Maddie loves to spend time outside, especially hiking and biking, and is a violinist in the MIT Symphony.

BS (Materials Science, Physics) MIT 2019

PhD Student

PhD Student

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Visiting Scholar

B.E (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Visiting Scholar

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Mark earned his B.S. from Cornell University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in EECS. His research, both theoretical and experimental, covers a broad range of topics including nonlinear optics in fibers, semiconductor laser physics, device fabrication, and optical frequency comb metrology. He has received several Rackham research awards from UM, a Graduate Student Instructor of the Year award, and was a finalist for the Carl E. Anderson Dissertation Award. Currently, he is working in a collaboration between MITRE and MIT on quantum information processing in photonic integrated circuits.

B.S. (Applied Physics & EE) Cornell University (2012)

M.S. (EECS) University of Michigan (2013)

Ph.D. (EECS) University of Michigan (2018)

 

Visiting Scholar

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Matthew Feldman is a visiting PhD candidate from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt University. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida. Upon graduation he worked as a RF engineer developing magnetic resonance imaging coils at Philips Healthcare in Gainesville, Florida. Following this he became a research engineer at Dartmouth College where he designed resonators in the L- and X- bands for dosimetry technologies based on continuous wave electron spin resonance. He is a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow and a NSF QISE-NET awardee. His research interests are in quantum memories, quantum optics and quantum control. When Matthew is not in the lab he enjoys photography and spending time with his wife and son.

BS (Electrical Engineering) University of Florida

Currently Photonic Device Engineer at Cisco, Inc.

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Currently at Robert Bosch GMBH.

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Currently Assistant Professor at ICFO

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PhD, 2011

Currently the CEO and Founder of Dust Identity.

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PhD 2010, MIT

Currently the CTO at Dust Identity.

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Currently Professor at Gachon University

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Currently at Dust Identity.

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PhD, 2015

Currently Senior Data Scientist at Ultra Capital LLC

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Currently an Assistant Professor at Humboldt University, Berlin.

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Currently Assistant Professor at CUNY

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PhD (Physics) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
MSc (Physics) University of Padua

Currently a Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing Inc.

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PhD (Photonics Engineering), Ghent University (2016)
MSc (Engineering Physics), Ghent University (2011)

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Delaware.

MS (Nanophysics and Nanostructructures) Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France

PhD (Materials Science), University of Rochester, NY, USA (2018).

PhD, 2016

Currently at IBM Laboratories, Mountain View, CA.

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PhD, 2017

Currently at Draper Laboratory

PhD, 2015

Currently a Senior Software Engineer at Capital One.

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PhD, 2015

Currently Senior Data Scientist at Ultra Capital LLC

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PhD 2017

Currently at Analog Photonics

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MS (EE) Columbia University
MS (EE) National Taiwan University
BS (Physics) National Taiwan University

PhD, 2017

Currently a Technical Staff at Lincoln Laboratory.

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MA (Physics), Columbia University (2013)
BA (Physics), Wellesley College

PhD 2018

Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley

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MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2011)
BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2010)

PhD 2018

Currently a Research Scientist at Facebook

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MEng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2013)
SB (Physics and Electrical Engineering), MIT (2012)

PhD 2018

Currently a Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing Inc.

MS (Physics), Korea University (2013)
BS (Physics), Korea University (2011)

PhD, 2019

Currently a Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at LightMatter.

BS (Physics), The University of Texas at Austin (2013)
BS (Mechanical Engineering), The University of Texas at Austin (2013)

PhD, 2020

Currently at Apple Inc.

BA (Mathematics), Cornell University (2013)
BA (Physics), Cornell University (2013)

PhD, 2020

BS (Physics), Georgia Tech (2013)

PhD, 2020

Currently a Research Scientist at HRL Laboratories.

BS (Physics), MIT (2013)
BS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2013)

PhD 2020

BS (Electrical Engineering), Caltech (2013)

PhD 2020

Currently a Senior Research Scientist at Systems & Technology Research

SM (Applied Physics), Harvard University (2014)
BS (Engineering Physics), Cornell University (2011)

PhD 2021

BA (Physics) Columbia University (2014)

Currently PhD student at Harvard University

Currently MEng student at MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Currently PhD student at Yale University

Currently PhD student at Stanford University

Undergraduate 2018

Currently a PhD student at MIT

Currently Professor in School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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Visiting Student

M.S. (Communication Engineering) Tohoku University, Japan (2015)
B.S. (Information Engineering) Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China (2013)

RSI high school student (2017)

RSI high school student (2017)

RSI high school student (2016)

RSI high school student (2016)

RSI high school student (2016)

MRSP (2016)

MSRP (2015)

Visiting Scholar

B.Sc. (Physics), TU Wien (2015)

M.Sc. (Physics), TU Wien (2017)

Visiting Scholar

Currently at Xanadu Corporation.

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