Principal Investigator
Cheng Chin
Office (773) 702-7192
Lab (773) 702-1218
Lab (773) 834-8444
GCIS E107
cchin*
Staff
Maria Jimenez
Office (773) 702-9971
Fax (773) 834-5250
GCIS E225
mdjimene*
Postdocs
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*
Mingjiamei Zhang
Office (773) 702-1218
Lab (773) 834-8444
GCIS ESB09B
zmjm*
Shu Nagata
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB09B
nagatashu*
Lauren Weiss
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB09B
laurenweiss*
Henry Ando
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB13
hando*
Evan Yamaguchi
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB09B
epyama*
Sarah McCusker
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB13
smccusker*
Chuixin (Lambert) Kong
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB09B
lambertkk*
Rahaf Youssef
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB27
ryoussef*
Claire Pritts
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB27
cpritts*
Pouya Sadeghpour
Office (773) 702-1218
GCIS ESB13
psadeghpour*
Undergraduate Students
Leon Gold
lgold*
Nathan Brucotao
njbrutocao*
Otto Meyer
ottomeyer55*
Winston Wu
winstonyw*
Vincent (Jinghang) Ji
jhji*
Mouhamed Mbengue
mmbengue*
David Conway
dfconway*
*: @uchicago.edu
**: @gmail.com
Former Members
| Name | In our group | Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Xuanhui (Mona) Mao | Undergrad 2024-2025 | PhD Student, EECS, MIT |
| Zihan Xu | Visiting Undergrad | PhD Student, Physics, MIT |
| Glasha Osipycheva | Undergrad | |
| Ting-An (Polly) Wang | Visiting Undergrad | |
| Marie Buclez | Undergrad | |
| Wirunchana (Nin) Rattanasakuldilok | Visiting PhD Student 2024 | PhD Student, Physics, University of Jyväskylä (Finland) |
| Joseph (Jay) Jachinowski | PhD Student 2022-2023 | PhD Student, Physics, University of Chicago |
| Chang (Nick) Li | Undergrad | PhD Student, UMD |
| Stella Kraus | Undergrad | PhD Student, UC Boulder |
| Annie Zhi | Undergrad | PhD Student, Harvard |
| Jonathan Trisnadi | PhD Student 2015-2023 |
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, 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 | Ph.D. Student, Physics, Harvard University |
| Zhendong Zhang | PhD Student 2017-2022 | Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Hong Kong |
| 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 Student, 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 | Principle Quantum Engineer, Atom Computing |
| Brian DeSalvo | Postdoc 15-19 | Assistant Professor, Physics, Indiana University |
| Daniela Girotti | Undergrad 17-19 | PhD student, Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 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 |
| Benjamin Foster | Undergrad 14-17 | Postdoc Researcher, Physics, Stanford |
| 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 | Associate Professor, Physics, Tsinghua University |
| Anita Gaj | Postdoc 16-17 | |
| Logan Clark | PhD student 12-17 | Quantitative researcher, Radix Trading |
| Jacob Johansen | PhD student 11-17 | AMO Scientist, Quantinuum |
| Yunpeng Ji | Undergraduate RA 16-17 | Postdoc researcher, Physics, Stanford 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 | 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 | Research Engineer, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur |
| Rajan Aggarwal | Summer high school student '14 | Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University |
| Eric Hazlett | Postdoctoral scholar 13-14 | Assistant Professor, Physics, St. Olaf College |
| Shih-Kuang Tung | Postdoctoral scholar 10-14 | Associate Professor, Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan |
| Ulrich Eismann | Visiting Scholar 12 and 13 | Senior Scientist, Toptica Inc. |
| Kate Schreiber | Undergrad RA 13 | Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 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 |
| Tejin Cai | Undergrad student '09-'11 | Postdoc, York University, Canada |
| 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 |