Team
Dirk Englund
PhD Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
englund -at- mit -dot- edu
Dirk Englund received his BS in Physics from Caltech in 2002. Following a Fulbright year at TU Eindhoven, he earned an MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in Applied Physics in 2008, both from Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University until 2010, when he started his group as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics at Columbia University. In 2013, he joined the faculty of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dirk's research focuses on quantum technologies based on semiconductor and optical systems. Outside the office, Dirk enjoys doing sports, music, and spending time with family and friends.
PhD (Appl. Physics), Stanford (2008) MS (Electrical Engineering), Stanford BS (Physics), Caltech
Matthew E. Trusheim
PhD Research Scientist
mtrush -at- mit -dot- edu
PhD (EECS) MIT, MS (Appl. Phys.) Columbia, BS (Appl. Phys.) Yale
Erik Yost
Program Manager, Research
erikyost -at- mit -dot- edu
Erik Yost is a Grand Canyon University graduate with honors in Business Management. He pioneered numerous microgravity research at NASA AMES and around the world while presenting findings. He then founded GENERATE and the GCU STELLAR program for undergraduates to conduct research on the International Space Station NL. Working with LaBelle Labs, he successfully led the seminal deployment of energy and health research to the ISS. With a PMP certification, he helps the MIT Quantum Photonics Group with research program management. Outside work, Erik enjoys surfing, hiking, and family time.
BS (Business Managment) Grand Canyon University
Avinash Kumar
PhD Research Scientist
avinashk -at- mit -dot- edu
Franco Wong
PhD Research Scientist
ncw -at- mit -dot- edu
PhD (Stanford), MS (Stanford), BA, BS (Rochester)
Janice Balzer
Administrator
balzer -at- mit -dot- edu
Adyant Kamdar
Software Engineer
k_adyant -at- mit -dot- edu
BA (Physics, minor EECS), UC Berkeley
Anders Khaykin
Research Engineer
akhaykin -at- mit -dot- edu
BSc (Materials Science & Engineering & Economics) MIT 2021
Hyeongrak Choi
PhD Postdoctoral
choihr -at- mit -dot- edu
M.S. (Electrical Engineering), MIT (2017); B.S. (Electrical engineering), Seoul National University (2014)
Adrian Menssen
PhD Postdoctoral
amenssen -at- mit -dot- edu
Adrian Menssen's research focuses on programming atomic systems for quantum computing and simulation using large-scale photonic circuits.
BS (Physics) Goethe Univ., Ger 2011, M.Sc (Physics) Goethe Univ., Ger 2014, DPhil (Physics) Univ. of Oxford, UK 2019
Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills
PhD Postdoctoral
sivantra -at- mit -dot- edu
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
Bevin Huang
PhD Postdoctoral
huangbev -at- mit -dot- edu
Ph.D. (Physics) University of Washington (2020)
Jawaher Almutlaq
PhD Postdoctoral
jawaher -at- mit -dot- edu
Jawaher received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University in 2015. Her thesis was on the additive manufacturing of metals for the next generation of spaceships as the recipient of The NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium scholarship. In 2015, she joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where she worked under the supervision of Prof. Osman Bakr. Her research focused on investigating the synthesis, structural and optical properties of perovskites. For her work, she was awarded a PhD degree in 2020. During her PhD, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, where she worked on yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) superconductors. She Received the Ibn Khaldun Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021, and the Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellowship award in 2022. In Quantum Photonics Group, she works on quantum materials, focusing on the 2D materials for quantum technoloy. Outside of work, she is an avid tea drinker and she enjoys stargazing and practicing archery.
Ph.D (Materials Science & Engineering), KAUST, 2020
Sri Krishna Vadlamani
PhD Postdoctoral
srikv -at- mit -dot- edu
Sri received a B.Tech. (with honors) in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Physics, from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), India, in 2016. In 2021, he obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Eli Yablonovitch, from the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. work explored spectroscopic lineshape theory for tunnel transistors, and physics-based combinatorial optimization solvers.
B.Tech. (Electrical Engineering) IIT Bombay, India, 2016. Ph.D. (EECS) UC Berkeley, 2021.
Valeria Saggio
PhD Postdoctoral
vsaggio -at- mit -dot- edu
Valeria Saggio received her Ph.D. at the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2021, where she worked on entanglement detection in photonic cluster states as well as on applications of quantum mechanics to reinforcement learning. She carried out her Master thesis at the University of Florence (Italy) and did an internship at the Queen's University Belfast (UK) during her studies at the University of Catania (Italy), where she obtained her B.A. and M.S. in Physics. She is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at the Quantum Photonics Laboratory, MIT.
Ph.D. (Physics), University of Vienna, Austria (2021)
Ethan Arnault
PhD Postdoctoral
earnault -at- mit -dot- edu
Ethan received his BA in Physics from Cornell University in 2016. Afterwards, he attended a PhD in experimental condensed matter physics under Prof. Gleb Finkelstein at Duke University. While there, he studied nanoelectronic devices looking at the interplay of superconductivity with graphene heterostructures. In particular, studying multiterminal Josephson junctions and superconducting effects in the quantum Hall regime. For this work, he was awarded a PhD and concurrent MS in ECE in May 2022. His current work is on utilizing 2D materials for quantum sensors.
PhD Physics, MS ECE, Duke University (2022), BA Physics Cornell University (2016)
Yong Hu
PhD Postdoctoral
yonghu -at- mit -dot- edu
Yong Hu received his B.S. in Material Physics from Hefei University of Technology in 2014 and his M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics from Nanjing University in 2017. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University at Buffalo in 2022. He is a recipient of the 2022 MMM-INTERMAG Best Student Presentation Finalist; 2021 Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Awards; 2021 MRS Science as Art Competition Award, and 2020 Dean’s Graduate Achievement Award. His current research focuses on low-dimensional quantum material devices, including quantum emitters in 2D materials and graphene plasmonics for nonlinear frequency conversion and photodetection.
B.S. (Material Physics) Hefei University of Technology 2014, M.S. (Condensed Matter Physics) Nanjing University 2017, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) 2022.
Chao Li
PhD Postdoctoral
lichao -at- mit -dot- edu
Chao Li earned his BS with the highest honor from Jilin University in 2016. He continued his education at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received his Ph.D. in 2022. His doctoral research focused on developing chip-scale atomic beam technologies and devices for timekeeping and sensing applications. This work earned him the 2023 APS Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Beam Physics Award. Currently, he is a postdoc at MIT RLE, where he is exploring the use of large-scale photonic integrated circuits for fast and coherent qubit control.
B.S. (Physics), Jilin University 2016; Ph.D. (Physics), Georgia Institute of Technology 2022
Camille Papon
PhD Postdoctoral
cpapon -at- mit -dot- edu
Camille obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Niels Bohr Institute in 2023 (NBI, Denmark) . She has an extensive experience in the nanofabrication of photonic devices and their use for quantum information applications. Under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Leonardo Midolo and Prof. Peter Lodahl she implemented various quantum hardware, including nanomechanical single-photon routers and photonic circuits with multiple emitters, for the scalable operation of deterministic single-photon sources. In the Quantum Photonics Group at MIT, she works on interfacing atom-like defects in silicon with nanophotonic structures toward their use in quantum technologies.
B.S. (Physics), University of Copenhagen M.S. (Quantum Physics), University of Copenhagen Ph.D. (Quantum Photonics), University of Copenhagen
Qiushi Gu
PhD Postdoctoral
Gu received his BA, M.Sci from the University of Cambridge. He later joined Mete Atature's group working on optically addressable spin defects in diamond and hBN for quantum sensing and communication. At MIT he works on identifying color centers in silicon.
BA and M.Sci, University of Cambridge, 2017 PhD, University of Cambridge, 2022
Bo-Han Wu
PhD Postdoctoral
bohanwu -at- mit -dot- edu
Bo-Han Wu received his BS degree in National Chiao Tung University (Electrophysics), MS degree in National Tsing Hua University (Physics), and PhD degree in the University of Arizona, majoring in Physics and minoring in Optical science. During his PhD study, he designed, fabricated and tested the photonic chip to generate the continuous-variable (CV) entangled photons; further, he proposed a theoretical protocol of CV quantum repeater to distribute long-distance entanglement and a theoretical quantum radar scheme to interrogate the direction of an distant unknown object. In MIT, he will theoretically develope the quantum sensing protocol empowered by machine learning tasks and will participate the experiments of large-scale photonic chip for atomic system.
B.S. (Electrophysics) National Chiao Tung University; M.S. (Physics) National Tsing Hua University; Ph. D. (Physics/Optical Science) The University of Arizona
Chao Luan
PhD Postdoctoral
chaoluan -at- mit -dot- edu
B.S. (Physics), University of Jinan (2014) M.S. (Optical Engineering), Shandong University (2017) Ph.D. (Silicon Photonics), Technical University of Denmark (2022)
Ian Berkman
PhD Postdoctoral
iberkman -at- mit -dot- edu
B.S. (Physics), Leiden University, 2015. M.S. (Applied Physics), Delft University of Technology, 2018. Ph.D. (Quantum computing/communication), University of New South Wales, 2023.
Saumil Bandyopadhyay
PhD Visiting
saumilb -at- mit -dot- edu
Saumil received his S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT. His research centers on developing energy-efficient chip-scale photonics for communication and computing, and his doctoral thesis focused on the design and experimental demonstration of end-to-end, monolithically integrated silicon photonic processors for deep neural networks. Prior to his doctoral work, Saumil worked with multiple optical communications teams across the industry, including internships with the Facebook Connectivity Lab and Network Hardware Engineering Teams (the latter in collaboration with the Telecom Infra Project), and most recently as a Senior Photonics Engineer on the Photonic Design Team at Elenion Technologies. His work has previously been recognized with a Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award and a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. Saumil recently joined the Physics and Informatics Laboratories at NTT Research and concurrently holds a joint appointment as a visiting scientist with the Quantum Photonics & AI Group at MIT.
PhD, Electrical Engineering, MIT (2023) | MEng, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT (2018) | SB, Electrical Science and Engineering, MIT (2017)
Kfir Sulimany
PhD Postdoctoral
kfir -at- mit -dot- edu
Ph.D. ,Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lingling Fan
PhD Postdoctoral
linglingfan -at- csail -dot- mit -dot- edu
Dr. Lingling Fan received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 2023. Prior to Stanford, she did her undergraduate research at Yale University, Applied Physics. She was a research intern at Google LLC in 2022 summer. She has published over 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference venues, including Nature Portfolio, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Optical Society of America, and American Chemical Society. Her research has translated to two U.S. patents and influenced emerging industry products in Google. She is a recipient of an Engineering Fellowship from Stanford University (2018), a CLEO presenter award (2020), a DARE fellowship finalist (2021), an EECS Rising Star award (2022), and a travel grant from ACM SIGCOMM (2023).
Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), Stanford University
Kenaish Alqubaisi
PhD Postdoctoral
kenaish -at- mit -dot- edu
Kenaish Al Qubaisi received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Boston University in 2023 for his work with Prof. Miloš Popović on the design and demonstration of novel passive and active photonic devices and circuits in monolithic electronics-photonics CMOS platforms. In 2015, he obtained a Master's in Microsystems Engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. Under Prof. Anatol Khilo’s guidance, Kenaish explored modeling of nonlinear effects in silicon microring resonators and the design of high-order integrated optical filters resilient against wavelength-dependent variations. He was invited to join Prof. Erich Ippen’s lab at MIT in 2014 as a visiting researcher to experimentally characterize integrated ultra‑fast pulse shapers. Kenaish received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 2013, where he undertook a year-long senior design project as the lead telecommunication system engineer for a miniature satellite (cubesat) named PurdueSAT.
Ph.D. (EECS), Boston University
Ian Christen
Graduate student
ichr -at- mit -dot- edu
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.
B.S. (Math, Physics) University of Washington (2017)
Isaac B. Harris
Graduate student
ibwharri -at- mit -dot- edu
B.A.Sc. (Nanotechnology Engineering) University of Waterloo, Canada (2018)
Liane Bernstein
Graduate student
lbern -at- mit -dot- edu
Liane received her B. Eng. in Engineering Physics from Polytechnique Montreal in 2016, specializing in Photonics. In 2018, she was awarded an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT for “Ultrahigh-Resolution, Deep-Penetration Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography” in Prof. Andy Yun’s group. For her PhD work in the Quantum Photonics and AI Group at MIT, Liane transitioned to optical computing, where she developed optical hardware to improve the speed and energy efficiency of deep learning. Outside the lab, Liane loves to rock climb and play the flute. Liane is a recipient of the Order of the White Rose scholarship (2016), FRQNT Doctoral Fellowship (2016-2018), and NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship (2018-2021). BEng (Engineering Physics), Polytechnique Montreal (2016) MS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2018)
BEng (Engineering Physics), Polytechnique Montreal (2016) MS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), MIT (2018)
Ronald Davis
Graduate student
radavis4 -at- mit -dot- edu
Hugo Larocque
Graduate student
hlarocqu -at- mit -dot- edu
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. His research focuses on developing large-scale photonic integrated circuits with devices designed to host nonlinear interactions, multimode interference processes, andheterogeneously integrated quantum emitters. He is a recipient of the 2019 NSERC PGSD and 2020 NSF QISE-NET awards.
B.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2016). M.Sc. (Physics) University of Ottawa, Canada (2018).
Linsen Li
Graduate student
linsenli -at- mit -dot- edu
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. His research interests include Advanced modeling and computing, Nanotechnology and Quantum Technology. Outside of work, he enjoys swimming, skiing, and golf.
BS (Microelectronics) Tsinghua University, China 2019
Yuqin Duan (Sophia)
Graduate student
sophiayd -at- mit -dot- edu
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 and Yufeng Kevin Chen's 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 chinese dance choreographer at MIT ADT, a dancer at DR and Harvard Dance Troupe, a classical musician, and Assyriology enthusiast.
B.S. (EE) Purdue University, 2019. S.M. (EECS) MIT, 2021
Marc Davis
Graduate student
mgd -at- mit -dot- edu
Marc received his B.A. in Physics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he worked in Prof. Irfan Siddiqi's lab on quantum gate synthesis and circuit optimization techniques for NISQ quantum circuits. Now Marc works on quantum circuit optimization techniques for a variety of different scenarios, such as fault-tolerant quantum computing and distributed quantum circuits.
B.A. (CS and Physics) UC Berkeley 2020, S.M (EECS) MIT 2023
Hamza Raniwala
Graduate student
raniwala -at- mit -dot- edu
Hamza received his BS in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2020. There, he worked in the lab of Dr. Hyuck Choo on a nanophotonic sensor implant for monitoring intraocular pressure, and later in the lab of Professor Oskar Painter on coherent, piezoelectric-based microwave-to-optical transduction. For his senior thesis, Hamza continued working with Professor Painter on vertical nanogap capacitors for low TLS density superconducting transmon qubits. Hamza joined the Quantum Photonics Laboratory in 2020 and is currently researching spin-phonon interfaces for quantum computing and networking applications. Hamza is a recipient of a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and will be an NDSEG fellow in the fall.
B.S. (Applied Physics) California Institute of Technology 2020
Hanfeng Wang
Graduate student
hanfengw -at- mit -dot- edu
B.S. (Applied Physics), USTC, 2020
Thomas Propson
Graduate student
tpropson -at- mit -dot- edu
Thomas received a BA in Physics from the University of Chicago in 2021. There, under the guidance of Fred Chong, he developed techniques for improving the performance of quantum algorithms on NISQ devices. He completed his senior thesis in the lab of David Schuster, where he developed a numerical optimization protocol for making quantum gates robust to control imperfections and applied it to fluxonium-type superconducting circuits. For his undergraduate work, Thomas was awarded the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and a full-tuition scholarship for his senior year from the UChicago Physics Department. Following graduation, he joined the Quantum Photonics Group at MIT as a Ph.D. student with the support of the NSFGRFP and the MIT Jacobs Presidential Fellowship. At MIT, Thomas is excited to develop photonic technologies for controlling quantum devices.
B.A. (Physics) University of Chicago, 2021
Reggie Wilcox
Graduate student
rwilcox -at- mit -dot- edu
Cole Brabec
Graduate student
cbrabec -at- mit -dot- edu
B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Caltech, 2021
Alessandro Buzzi
MSc Graduate student
abuzzi -at- mit -dot- edu
Alessandro Buzzi received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2022, as part of a joint degree between Politecnico di Torino, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG Phelma), and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) focused on micro and nanotechnologies for integrated systems. He conducted research in a variety of fields ranging from computational electromagnetics (in Politecnico di Torino) and nanomagnetism (in Politecnico di Milano). In 2022, he joined the Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication group at MIT for his Master’s thesis on the development of superconducting electronics. From January 2023, he joined the Quantum Photonics Laboratory, focusing on color centers in silicon and heterogenous integration for photonic integrated circuits.
MSc (Electrical Engineering) Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2022)
Yin Min Goh
Graduate student
gohymin -at- mit -dot- edu
B.S. (Physics), University of Michigan (2022)
Maxim Sirotin
Graduate student
sirotin -at- mit -dot- edu
Maxim Sirotin received his MSc and BSc in physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, where, under the guidance of Prof. Andrey Fedyanin, he was developing laser interferometric imaging methods for biomechanics and nanophotonics. As his master's thesis, he created a method of ultrafast optical coherence microscopy. While working in the group of Prof. Peter Hommelhoff (FAU and MPL, Germany) Maxim was developing the theoretical foundations of free-electron quantum optics under the influence of quantum recoil effect. Maxim joined the Quantum Photonics Group at MIT as a PhD student in September 2023 to work on quantum networks with tin-vacancy centers in diamond.
MSc and BSc (Physics), Lomonosov Moscow State University (2022)
Prahlad Iyengar
Graduate student
prahbi90 -at- mit -dot- edu
BSc (Electrical Engineering)
Marc Bacvanski
Graduate student
marcbac -at- mit -dot- edu
B.S. (Computer Science), Northeastern University (2023)
Louis Follet
Graduate student
louisf13 -at- mit -dot- edu
B.S. and M.S. (Physics) Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay (2021 & 2023) B.S. and M.S. (Engineering) Institut d'Optique (2021 & 2023)
Sofia Patomaki
Postdoctoral
patomaki -at- mit -dot- edu
Ph.D. (physics) University College London
Odiel Hooybergs
Graduate student
odiel -at- mit -dot- edu
Odiel is an ETH Quantum Engineering student, passionate about quantum information processing. During his Semester Project and Master Thesis he got introduced to the field of microwave-optical quantum transduction, which will play an import role in the future quantum internet and the upscaling of quantum computers based on superconducting circuits. Currently he is expanding his experience in experimental quantum physics during a research internship on color centers in silicon. During the first six months he built the measurement setup in Carlos Errando Herranz’s new group at TU Delft in collaboration with the group of Ronald Hanson. Now he is using a similar setup for the investigation of G-centers in photonic integrated circuits in the group of Dirk Englund at MIT. He is also working on a theoretical project about driven quantum matter based on group IV color centers in diamond with strain control.
B.S. Engineering Physics (Ghent University), M.S. Quantum Engineering (ETH Zurich)
Dowon Baek
Graduate student
Shuang Wu
PhD Postdoctoral
shuang_wu -at- honda-ri -dot- com
Mark Dong
PhD Research Scientist
markdong -at- mit -dot- edu
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
Gen Clark
PhD Research Scientist
clarkg -at- mit -dot- edu
Pratyush Anand
Graduate student
anand43 -at- mit -dot- edu
MSc (Physics); BTech (Engineering Physics)
Yihuai Gao
Graduate student
yhgao -at- mit -dot- edu
Dashiell Vitullo
PhD Research Scientist
PhD (Physics), University of Oregon (2016), BA (Physics) Reed College (2007)
Mustafa Yucel
Graduate student
yucelm -at- mit -dot- edu
Mustafa Yucel received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from INPG-Phelma in 2020 and his MSc in Electrical Engineering from INPG Phelma, Grenoble France, the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland in 2022. In 2021 he worked during his 3 months internship on the guided interactions with rare-earth (Tm:GaN) luminescent centers for quantum information processing at the CNRS, Néel Institute, Grenoble. He joined QPG-MIT for his Master thesis to work on Large Scale Photonics Integrated Circuits for Quantum Information Processing with Artificial Atoms. Currently he is working on CMOS-Integrated Large-Scale Optical Neural Transceivers as research assistant.
BSc (Mathematics, Physics and Electronics) INPG-Phelma and MSc (EECS) INPG-Phelma, Politecnico di Torino & EPFL
Stefan Krastanov
PhD Professor
stefankr -at- mit -dot- edu
Stefan's research interests center on the control and calibration of near term quantum hardware, with the occasional use of machine learning techniques towards that goal. He obtained his doctorate in physics in Liang Jiang's group at the Yale Quantum Institute and his undergraduate degree at ENS, Lyon, France. He spends much of his free time on hobby electronics and STEM outreach, frequently mixing the two by helping middleschoolers build pretty light-emitting gadgets and learn about the physics behind the contraption.
M (Physics) ENS Lyon, PhD (Physics) Yale
Andrew Greenspon
PhD Research Scientist
agreensp -at- mit -dot- edu
PhD (Applied Physics) Harvard University 2021
Kevin Palm
Research Scientist
PhD (Phyiscs) University of Maryland 2021, BA (Physics) Cornell University 2016
Etienne Corminboeuf
Graduate student
etiennec -at- mit -dot- edu
Etienne Corminboeuf holds a BSc in Physics from ETH Zurich, where he is also pursuing his MSc degree. He is currently working on his MSc thesis in the group of Prof. Dirk Englund at MIT. Previously, he was a Research Assistant at Polariton Technologies - a spinoff out of the group of Prof. Leuthold at ETH Zurich - focusing on automated measurements for electro-optic devices. He also worked as an Atmospheric Scientist for Orbio Earth on the detection and quantification of anomalous methane emissions using satellite imagery.
BSc (Physics), ETH Zurich
Zhizhen Zhong
PhD Postdoctoral
zhizhenz -at- mit -dot- edu
Zhizhen Zhong is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL. His research work focuses on the intersection of networked systems and photonics/optoelectronics to build the next-generation reconfigurable computer networks and high-performance networked computing infrastructures. Before joining MIT, he was a visiting researcher at Meta (Facebook). He received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in July 2019. His Ph.D. thesis is on "Traffic-Driven Self-Adaptive Optical Networking" that designs reconfigurable optical networks to adapt to spatiotemporal traffic demand dynamics for high throughput and low latency. He was a visiting Ph.D student at the University of California Davis. He received his Bachelor's Degree of Engineering and secondary Bachelor's Degree of Economics from Tsinghua University in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
PhD (Electronic Engineering), Tsinghua; BEng (Electronic Engineering), Tsinghua
Helaman Flores
Undergraduate
floresh2 -at- mit -dot- edu
Helaman Flores is an undergraduate researcher from Brigham Young University. His research focuses on coupling to resonant cavities in diamond and strain tuning of diamond structures, with experience in FDTD and FEM simulation software.
BSc (EE)
Niv Bharos
Graduate student
niv -at- mit -dot- edu
BSc, MSc (Applied Physics)
Danielle Braje
Dr LL supervisor
Ben Dixon
Dr LL supervisor
Scott Hamilton
Dr LL supervisor
Emily Xie
High school
Jasvith Raj Basani
Graduate student
f20170374 -at- hyderabad -dot- bits-pilani -dot- ac -dot- in
Jeffrey Wang
Undergraduate
Andy Dienes
Undergraduate
Mario Acevedo-Portela
Undergraduate
Vering, Julius
Undergraduate
Lidholm, Johanna
Undergraduate
Darwin Cordovilla
Undergraduate
Maarten Degen, M.J.Degen@tudelft.nl
Graduate student
Jared Cochrane
Meng
MIT
Grecia Castelazo
MEng
#N/A
Lamia Ateshian
Graduate student
ateshian -at- mit -dot- edu
Uttara Chakraborty
Graduate student
uttara -at- mit -dot- edu
Madison Sutula
Graduate student
mmsutula -at- mit -dot- edu
H Azzouz
Graduate student
haz -at- mit -dot- edu
Charles Hsu
PhD Research Engineer
memstar -at- mit -dot- edu
PhD (EECS)
Dalia Ornelas-Huerta
PhD Postdoctoral
daliaoh -at- mit -dot- edu
Evan D. Walsh
PhD in Physics, Harvard University Graduate student
evanwalsh -at- seas -dot- harvard -dot- edu
Eric Bersin
PhD Graduate student
ebersin -at- mit -dot- edu
Yan Chen
PhD Postdoctoral
ychen123 -at- mit -dot- edu
Theodor Isacsson
Visiting
isacsson -at- mit -dot- edu
Alexander Lukin
PhD Postdoctoral
alukin -at- mit -dot- edu
Lukas Mennel
Visiting
mennel -at- mit -dot- edu
Florian Dolde
PhD Postdoctoral
f -dot- dolde -at- googlemail -dot- com
Diploma (Physics) Uni Stuttgart Dr. rer. nat. Uni Stuttgart
Margaret Pavlovich
Undergraduate
Marisa Sotolongo
Undergraduate
Prashanta Kharel
Undergraduate
B.S. (Applied Physics) Columbia 2013, B.S. (Physics) Sewanee
Tamara Dordevic
PhD Undergraduate
tamara -dot- djordjevicc -at- gmail -dot- com
B.S. (Physics) MIT 2015
Rishi Patel
PhD Undergraduate
Ophir Gaathon
PhD Postdoctoral
Jonathan Hodges
PhD Postdoctoral
Igal Bayn
PhD Postdoctoral
Luozhou Li
PhD Graduate student
luozhou -dot- li -at- gmail -dot- com
MS (Electrical Engineering), Columbia University (2011) BS (Optoelectronics), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2009)
Jacob Mower
PhD Graduate student
jcmower -at- gmail -dot- com
B.S. (Physics), Stevens Institute of Technology, M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Columbia, PhD (EECS) MIT
Anubhav Sinha
PhD MEng
anusinha -at- mit -dot- edu
Tim Schröder
PhD Postdoctoral
schroder -at- mit -dot- edu
Maarten Degen
PhD Diploma/Masters
mjdegen -at- mit -dot- edu
Sinan Karaveli
PhD Postdoctoral
karaveli -at- mit -dot- edu
Edward H. Chen
PhD Graduate student
ehchen -at- mit -dot- edu
Mihir Pant
PhD Graduate student
mpant -at- mit -dot- edu
Kwang-Yong Jeong
PhD Postdoctoral
kyjeong -at- mit -dot- edu
Jiabao Zheng
PhD Graduate student
jiabao -at- mit -dot- edu
Sara L. Mouradian
PhD Graduate student
smouradi -at- mit -dot- edu
Gabriele Grosso
PhD Postdoctoral
ggrosso -at- mit -dot- edu
Jacques Carolan
PhD Postdoctoral
carolanj -at- mit -dot- edu
Frédéric Peyskens
PhD Postdoctoral
fpeysken -at- mit -dot- edu
Zaijun Chen
PhD Postdoctoral
chenzj -at- mit -dot- edu
Erik Eisenach
PhD Graduate student
eisenach -at- mit -dot- edu
Stefan Krastanov
PhD Research Scientist
stefankr -at- mit -dot- edu
Wenhan Dai
PhD Postdoctoral
whdai -at- mit -dot- edu
Laura Kim
PhD Postdoctoral
lbkim -at- mit -dot- edu
Mihika Prabhu
Graduate student
mihika -at- mit -dot- edu
Carlos Errando Herranz
PhD Postdoctoral
BS&MS (Electrical Engineering) UPV Valencia, Spain; PhD (Micro and Nanosystems) KTH Stockholm, Sweden
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Alex Sludds
Graduate student
B.S. (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) MIT (2018), M.Eng (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) MIT 2019
Artur Hermans
PhD Postdoctoral
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).
8572773187
Max Hardy
MEng
Kevin Chen
Graduate student
B.S. (Applied Physics) Caltech (2017), S.M. (EECS) MIT (2019)
Mohamed ElKabbash
PhD Postdoctoral
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) (2017).
3095855516
MEng of Masters thesis as reader
Etienne Corminboeuf
PhD as Reader [automation]
Jelena Notaros
Won Kyu Calvin Sun
Akshay Agarwal
Yuan Cao
Mohamed Ibrahim
Pai Peng
Charles Roques-Carmes
Matthias Ginterseder
Samuel Gyger, EECS
Wenjie Yao, EECS
Matteo Castellani
Bobak T. Kiani
Haowei Xu
Nobakht, Jahangir
Castelazo, Grecia
Jane Hayes
Marco Colangelo