Principal Investigator
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Cheng Chin
Office (773) 702-7192
Lab (773) 702-1218
Lab (773) 834-8444
GCIS E107
cchin*
Staff
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Maria Jimenez
Office (773) 702-9971
Fax (773) 834-5250
GCIS E225
mdjimene*
Postdocs
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Tadej Mežnaršič
Office (773) 702-1218
Lab (773) 834-8444
GCIS ESB09B
tmeznarsic*
Graduate Students
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Geyue (Frank) Cai
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB13
gcai*
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Mingjiamei Zhang
Office (773) 702-1218
Lab (773) 834-8444
GCIS ESB09B
zmjm*
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Shu Nagata
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB09B
nagatashu*
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Lauren Weiss
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB09B
laurenweiss*
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Henry Ando
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB13
hando*
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Joseph (Jay) Jachinowski
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB27
jachinowski*
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Evan Yamaguchi
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB09B
epyama*
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Sarah McCusker
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB13
smccusker*
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Chuixin (Lambert) Kong
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB27
t-9kong*
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Rahaf Youssef
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB27
ryoussef*
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Wirunchana (Nin) Rattanasakuldilok
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB27
wrattana*
Undergraduate Students
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Chang (Nick) Li
chang5*
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Stella Kraus
stellakraus*
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Leon Gold
lgold*
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Nathan Brucotao
njbrutocao*
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Marie Buclez
mmbuclez*
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Annie Zhi
azhi*
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Glasha Osipycheva
osipychevag*
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Otto Meyer
ottomeyer55*
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Ting-An (Polly) Wang
tingan*
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Zihan Xu
zihanxu312*
*: @uchicago.edu
**: @gmail.com
Former Members
Name | In our group | Current position |
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Jonathan Trisnadi | PhD Student 2016-2023 |
Sr. Plasma and Laser Physics Engineer, ASML |
Callum Welsh | Undergrad | PhD Student, Princeton University |
Youjia Huang | Visiting Student 2022-2023 | PhD Student, Tsinghua University |
Michael Rautenberg | Visitng Student 2023 | PhD Student, Heidelberg University |
Aditi Goyal | Master Student 2021-2022 | |
Kai-Xuan Yao | PhD Student 2017-2022 | Quantitative Researcher at Citadel |
Krutik Patel | PhD Student 2015-2022 | |
Joao Henrique Oliveira Fontes | Undergrad | |
Andrew Reynoso | 2022 REU | Physics Department, UC Berkeley |
Tzu-Ken Shen | 2022 REU | Physics Department, National Taiwan University |
Zhendong Zhang | PhD Student 2017-2022 | Postdoc, Physics Department, Stanford University |
Samir Rajani | Undergrad | Head Graphic Designer, University Blood Initiative |
Huiting Liu | Undergrad | PhD Student, Physics, Stanford University |
Lucas Baralt | Undergrad | Lecture Demonstrator, UChicago Physics Department |
Alexander Preau | Undergrad | Computer Science Masters Studen, Columbia University |
Peter Camporeale | Undergrad | Research Technician, CERN |
Kelsey Gilchrist | Undergrad | PhD Student, Physics, Univerity of Michigan |
Connor Fieweger | Undergrad | QuEra Computing Inc |
Han Fu | (Theory) Postdoc fellow | |
David Weisskopf | Undergrad | Associate Test Engineer, Superconducting Electronics |
Liangchao Chen | Visiting scholar 19-20 | Assistant Professor, Shanxi University, China |
Yu Alicia Xiao | Undergrad | |
Michelle Chong | Undergrad | PhD student, Physics, MIT |
Kameron Mehling | Undergrad | PhD student, Physics, JILA |
Bertrand Evrard | Visiting scholar 20-20 | Postdoc fellow, College de France |
Mickey McDonald | Postdoc 16-19 | Atom Computing |
Brian DeSalvo | Postdoc 15-19 | Assistant Professor, Physics, Indiana University |
Daniela Girotti | Undergrad 17-19 | PhD student, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Lei Feng | PhD student 13-19 | Assistant professor, Physics Department, Fudan University |
Tyler Johnson | Undergrad | PhD student, Physics, Duke University |
Marissa Montoya | Undergrad | Voleon Group, San Francisco |
Ben Foster | Undergrad 14-17 | PhD student, Physics, University of California, Berkeley |
Frankie Fung | Undergrad 14-17 | PhD student, Physics, Harvard University |
Misha Usatyuk | Undergrad 13-17 | PhD student, Physics, University of California, Berkeley |
Jiazhong Hu | Postdoc 17-18 | Assistant Professor, Physics, Tsinghua University |
Anita Gaj | Postdoc 16-17 | |
Logan Clark | PhD student 12-17 | Radix Trading |
Jacob Johansen | PhD student 11-17 | AMO Scientist, Honeywell |
Yunpeng Ji | Undergraduate RA 16-17 | Ph.D. student, Physics, Yale University |
Tongtong Liu | Undergraduate, Summer, 16 | Ph.D. student, Physics, MIT |
Kuan-Wen Chen | Undergraduate, Summer, 16 | Master degree student, Physics, National Taiwan University |
Yugan Sakthi | High school, Summer, 16 | Undergraduate, Physics, Case Western Reserve University |
Nicholas Kowalski | Undergraduate RA 13-16 | Ph.D. student, Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Paloma Ocola | Undergraduate RA 13-16 | Ph.D. student, Physics, Harvard University |
Harry Li-chung Ha | PhD student 10-16 | Postdocotral Fellow, Physics, University of Texas at Austin |
Chenyu Xu | Postdoctoral Fellow 15-16 | Data Scientist, Uptake Technologies |
Colin Parker | Postdoctoral Fellow 11-15 | Associate Professor, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Junbo Zhu | Visiting student 15 | Ph.D. student, Physics, MIT |
Tyler Smart | Visiting student 15 | Graduate student, Physics, UC-Santa Cruz |
Yu-Ting Chen | Visiting student 14 and 15 | Ph.D. student, Physics, Harvard University |
Klaus Hueck | Visiting student 14 | Ph.D. student in Physics, Hamburg University, Germany |
Karina Jiménez García | Postdoctoral scholar 13-14 | Professor, CINVESTAV (Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute), Mexico City, Mexico |
Dylan Sabulsky | Undergrad RA 12-14 | Ph.D. in Physics, Imperial College |
Rajan Aggarwal | Summer high school student '14 | Undergraduate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UIUC |
Eric Hazlett | Postdoctoral scholar 13-14 | Assistant Professor, Physics, Carleton College |
Shih-Kuang Tung | Postdoctoral scholar 10-14 | Assistant Professor, Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan |
Ulrich Eismann | Visiting Scholar 12 and 13 | Senior Scientist, Toptica Inc. |
Kate Schreiber | Undergrad RA 13 | Ph.D. in Physics, Purdue University |
Francisco Fonta | Undergrad RA 13 | Ph.D student, Physics, Penn State University |
Chung-Kuan Lin | Visiting student '12 | Ph.D. student, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley |
Xibo Zhang | PhD student 05-12 | Associate Professor, Peking University, China |
Diana Chen | Undergrad RA 11 | Ph.D. student, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Chen-Lung Hung | PhD student 05-11 | Associate Professor, Physics Department, Purdue University |
Jing Zhang | Visiting Scholar '11 | Professor, Shanxi University |
Alejandro Virrueta | Summer student '11 | Ph.D. student, Physics, Yale University |
Zhaoyuan Ma | Visiting Scholar '10 | Professor, the Future Laboratory, Tsinghua University |
Yun-Chu Wang | Visiting student '10 | National Taiwan University, Taiwan |
Yijun Tang | Summer student '10-'11 | Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University |
Nathan Gemelke | Grainger postdoctoral scholar | Assistant Professor, Physics, Pennsylvania State University in University park |
Skyler Degenkolb | Undergrad RA 07-10 | Professor, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg |
Ray Jia Hong Ng | Undergrad RA 09-10 | Ph.D. student, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
Kathy-Anne Soderberg | MRSEC Postdoctoral scholar | Senior Research Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory |
Francisco Martinez | Exchange student 2010 | Physics Department, Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
Dennis Lin | Technical assistant 05-10 | Associate Researcher, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan |
Andreas Klinger | Exchange student 08-09 | Ph.D. student in Physics, Innsbruck University, Austria |
Eric Blanshan | Undergrad RA 05-08 | Ph.D. student in Physics, University of Colorado |
Daniel Rivas | Exchange student 08 | Ph.D. student in Physics, Max Planck institute for quantum optics, Garching, Germany |
Robert Berry | Undergrad RA 05-07 | Engineer, Unico, Inc., St. Louis |
Martin Jankowiak | Undergrad RA 05-07 | Stanford University Ph.D. Program in Physics |
Shuo Hao | Undergrad RA 06 | Master student in Applied Physics, Harvard University |
Sebastian Michea Mora | Exchange student 06 | Ph.D. student in Physics Department, Universidad de Chile |
Emily Garza | REU student | Ph.D. student in Molecular biophysics, the Univ. of Texas Southwestern |