

People
Principal Investigator

Postdocs
![]() Dr. Sophie Hermans |
![]() Dr. Chengyi Luo |
Graduate Students
![]() Bilgehan Baspinar (G5, APh) |
![]() Ian Foo (G5, APh) |
![]() Riku Fukumori (G5, APh) |
![]() Antonia Ghita (G1, APh) |
![]() Emanuel Green (G3, APh) |
Suki Gu (G5, MS) |
![]() Jiahui Li (G3, APh) |
![]() McCoy Lim (G3, APh) |
![]() Erin Liu (G2, APh) |
![]() Faraz Mostafaeipour (G3, Phy) |
![]() Will Pajak (G2, APh) |
![]() Phillippe Pearson (G4, APh) |
![]() Max Tao (G1, APh) |
![]() Chun Ju Wu (G6, Phy) |
Visitors and Collaborators
Undergraduates
Administrative Secretary

Cecilia Gamboa
Grants Manager
Winnie Fong
winnief at caltech.edu
Alumni
Graduate Students
Name | Tenure | Current position |
Tian Xie | 2018-2024 | |
Tianzhe Zheng | 2018-2024 | Quantitative Researcher |
Mi Lei | 2017-2024 | Postdoc, UC Berkeley |
Andrei Ruskuc | 2017-2023 | Postdoc, Harvard University |
Greg Roberts | 2017-2023 | Postdoc, NYU |
Jake Rochman | 2016-2022 | Experimental Physicist at Xanadu |
Conner Ballew | 2016-2021 | Postdoc, JPL |
Hyounghan Kwon | 2016-2021 | Postdoc, Stanford University |
Sadegh Faraji-Dana | 2015-2020 | Photonics Engineer at Magic Leap |
Ioana Craiciu | 2014-2020 | Postdoc, JPL |
Chuting Wang | 2014-2019 | Research Engineer at MinebeaMitsumi |
Jonathan Kindem | 2013-2019 | NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at JILA/NIST-Boulder |
Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali | 2014-2019 | Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley |
Ehsan Arbabi | 2014-2019 | Photonics Engineer at Apple |
Evan Miyazono | 2012-2017 | Scientist/Engineer in Silicon Valley |
Yu Horie | 2013-2017 | Scientist/Engineer at Apple |
Postdocs
Name | Tenure | Current position |
Dr. Morteza Navadeh Toupchi | 2023-2024 | |
Dr. Adrian Beckert | 2021-2024 | Senior Quantum Engineer, Photonic Inc. |
Dr. Joonhee Choi | 2019-2023 | Assistant Professor, Stanford University |
Dr. Ding Zhong | 2019-2022 | Quantitative Researcher, Balyasny Asset Management |
Dr. Daniel Riedel | 2019-2020 | Postdoc, Stanford University |
Dr. Sarah A. Camayd-Muñoz | 2017-2019 | Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
Dr. John Bartholomew, @QuantumJB | 2016-2019 | Tenured Junior Faculty, University of Sydney |
Dr. Amir Arbabi | 2013-2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Dr. Tian Zhong | 2013-2018 | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
Undergraduates
Name | Position | Tenure |
Antonia Ghita | SURF | 2023 |
Elijah Paul | Undergraduate Researcher, SURF | 2022-2023 |
Malina Strugaru | SURF | 2021 |
Sébastien Abadi | SURF | 2021 |
Helena Guan | Undergraduate Researcher, SURF | 2020-2022 |
Andy Rothstein | Undergraduate Researcher | 2019-2020 |
Prakriti Somani | Researcher | 2020 |
Hugo Wallner | Researcher | 2019 |
Yakub Grzesik | SURF | 2019 |
Phillippe Pearson | Undergraduate Researcher, SURF | 2018-2019 |
Yan Qi Huan | Undergraduate Researcher, SURF | 2018-2019 |
Max Debbas | SURF | 2017, 2018 |
Dimitrie Cielecki | SURF | 2018 |
Anusha Pai | SURF | 2017 |
Romanus Hutchins | SURF | 2017 |
Leon Ding | SURF, Undergraduate Researcher | 2016-2017 |
Daniil Lukin | SURF, Undergraduate Researcher | 2016-2017 |
Raymond Lopez-Rios | SURF | 2016 |
Jake Rochman | SURF | 2015 |
Nathan Louie | SURF | 2015 |
Mengshuen Chua | SURF | 2014 |
Alex Ball | SURF | 2013 and 2014 |
Alex Hartz | SURF, Undergraduate Researcher | 2013 and 2014 |
Visitors
Name | Tenure | Current position |
Nia McNichols | 2023-2024 | Schmidt Academy of Software Engineering |
Neuton Li | 2023-2024 | Australian National University |
Dr. Duhyun Lee | Samsung | |
Dr. Jiaqi Li | 2017-2018 | imec |
Dr. Niels Verellen | 2014 | imec/University of Leuven |
Dr. Eran Segev | 2012-2014 | |
Dr. Seunghoon Han | 2014-2016 | Researcher at Samsung Electronics |