#  Former Group Members 

 



[**Gabriele Pasquale** ](https://dipolelabs.com/about)(postdoc, 2024-26) Co-founder and CTO (Dipole Labs)

[**Abhishek Banerjee** ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-banerjee-5281b916/)(postdoc, 2022-25) Research Scientist, AWS Center for Quantum Computing (Caltech)

[**Talieh S. Ghiasi**](https://research.tudelft.nl/en/persons/talieh-s-ghiasi) (postdoc, 2023-25) Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology

[**Andres M. Mier Valdivia**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-m-mier-valdivia) (Ph.D. 2025) Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

[**Tom Werkmeister** ](https://sites.google.com/view/thomas-werkmeister)(Ph.D. 2025) Simons Junior Fellow, Simons Foundation/Columbia University

[**Nadine Leisgang**](https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/fb13/research/quantum-materials) (postdoc, 2022-25) Assistant Professor, Marburg University of Technology

[**Jue Wang**](https://physics.hkust.edu.hk/people/jue-wang-wangjue) (postdoc, 2021-25), Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

[**Joon Young Park**](https://professor.skku.edu/researcher_eng/professorList.do?mode=view&perId=LZStrAwRgZgigIgxgplAWgIQMIDYCcqAaApAOwHMAOTIgQQF4qg%20&categoryId=G&jojikCode1=3172) (postdoc, 2020-25), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)

[**Jun Wei Lam**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-wei-lam-6084744b/) (M.S., 2026), Graduate Student, ETH, Switzerland

[**Sejoon Lim**](https://ye.physics.ubc.ca/people/) (postdoc, 2022-24), Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia, Canada

[**Zeyu Hao**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zeyu-hao-30a18691/) (Ph.D. 2024), postdoctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley

[**Andrew Zimmerman**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-zimmerman-319a04182) (postdoc, 2019-23), Senior Quantum Measurement Engineer at Microsoft

[**Dapeng Ding**](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Dapeng-Ding/50792187) (postdoc, 2019-23)

[**Artem Talanov**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/atalanov/) (Ph.D. 2023), Scientist, Physical Sciences Inc.

[**Qi Yang**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/qiiyang) (postdoc, 2019-23) Principal Engineer, Coherent Corp.

[**Jonah Waissman**](https://scholar.google.co.il/citations?user=oszrnsAAAAAJ&hl=en) (postdoc, 2015-22), Assistant Professor, Hebrew University

[**Laurel Anderson**](https://arthurbarnard.com/about/people/) (Ph.D. 2022) postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington

[**Rebecca Engelke**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-engelke-b60962121/) (Ph.D. 2022) Senior Member of Technical Staffs at Draper Laboratory

[**Mehdi Rezaee**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehdi-rezaee-98949abb/) (Ph.D. 2022) Engineer, Intel

[**Yuval Ronen**](https://www.weizmann.ac.il/condmat/ronen/home) (postdoc, 2017-22), Principal Investigator, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

[**Onder Gul** ](https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=fS_5aywAAAAJ&hl=en)(postdoc, 2017-22), Scientist at TNO Quantum Technology

[**Antti Laitinen**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zONMOwgAAAAJ&hl=en) (postdoc, 2019-2022)

[**Youngjo Jin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/youngjo-jin-9a217386/) (postdoc, 2019-2021) Senior Engineer at SK hynix R&D Center

[**S. Y. Frank Zhao**](https://umdphysics.umd.edu/people/visitors/item/2293-syfzhao.html) (Ph.D. 2021), Assistant Professor, University of Maryland

[**Andrew Joe** ](https://joelab.ucr.edu)(Ph.D. 2021) Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside

[**Hoseok Heo**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hoseok-heo-3b058938/?originalSubdomain=kr) (postdoc, 2018-2021) Research Scientist, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

[**Katie Huang**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiehuang1221) (Ph.D. 2020) Senior Data Scientist, Magid

[**Jing Shi**](https://www.a-star.edu.sg/i2r) (Ph.D. 2020) Research Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research

[**Tamar Mentzel**](https://insideucr.ucr.edu/stories/2020/11/17/meet-ucrs-new-faculty-members) (postdoc, 2019-20) Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Riverside.

[**Hyobin Yoo**](https://mdal.notion.site/) (postdoc, 2016-20), Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

[**Young Jae Shin**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/young-s-1a828325/) (postdoc, 2015-19) Senior R&D Engineer, PsiQuantum

[**Nicola Poccia**](https://superpuddles-lab.ifw-dresden.de/) (postdoc, 2016-19) Group Leader, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW).

[**Si Young Lee**](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vtmaY-MAAAAJ&hl=ja) (postdoc, 2015-19), Researcher, Samsung Electronics, Korea

[**Luis Jauregui**](https://www.physics.uci.edu/people/Luis-A-Jauregui) (postdoc, 2015-19), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine

[**Austin Cheng**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/auscheng) (Ph.D. 2019), Senior Data Engineer at Cathay Pacific

[**Kwabena Bediako**](https://www.bediakolab.org/) (postdoc, 2015-18), Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

[**Hiroshi Idzuchi**](https://www.nakatsuji-lab.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/member?lang=en) (postdoc, 2015-18) Project Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

[**Xiaomeng Liu**](https://www.xiaomengliu.com/) (Ph.D. 2018), Assistant Professor, Cornell University

[**Ke Wang**](https://www.physics.umn.edu/people/kewang.html) (postdoc, 2014-17), Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

[**Gil-Ho Lee** ](http://ghleelab.postech.ac.kr/)(postdoc, 2014-17), Associate Professor, POSTECH

[**Giselle Elbaz**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/giselle-elbaz-a9a7a556/) (Ph.D. 2017) Device Engineer at Quobly

[**Carlos Forsythe** ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-forsythe-1523a5157/)(Ph.D. 2017) R&D Engineer at Diamond Foundry

[**Jess Crossno**](https://www.crossnokaye.com/) (Ph.D. 2017) CTO at CrossnoKaye

[**Martin Gustafson**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gustafsson-35621a30) (postdoc, 2014-16), Research Scientist, BBN Raytheon

[**Jean-Damien Pillet**](https://www.polytechnique.edu/annuaire/fr/users/jean-damien.pillet) (postdoc, 2013-15), Associate Professor, Ecole Polytechnique.

[**Patrick Maher**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricktmaher?trk=public_profile_samename_profile_profile-result-card_result-card_full-click) (Ph.D. 2015) Machine Learning Engineer at Inductive Bio

[**Adam Wei Tsen**](https://sites.google.com/view/awtsen/home) (postdoc, 2013-15), Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

[**Jayakanth Ravichandran**](http://alchemy.usc.edu/) (postdoc, 2012-14), Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, USC

[**Fereshte Ghahari**](https://www.physics.gmu.edu/people/fereshte-ghahari-kermani/) (Ph.D. 2014) Assistant Professor, George Mason University

[**Chul-Ho Lee** ](https://ece.snu.ac.kr/research-faculty/faculty/full-time?md=view&profid=p881)(postdoc, 2012-14), Associate Professor, Seoul National University

[**Dmitri Efetov**](https://quantummatter.physik.lmu.de/people/professor/efetov/index.html) (Ph.D. 2014) Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

[**Amelia Barreiro** ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amelia-b-4b318a7/)(postdoc, 2011-13) European Patent Office, Berlin

[**Cory Dean**](http://www.deanlab.com/) (postdoc, 2009-13), Professor, Department of Physics, Columbia University

[**Niko Tombros**](http://www.hqgraphene.com/) (postdoc, 2011-12), Founder of HQ Graphene

[**Vikram Deshpande**](https://web.physics.utah.edu/~vdesh/) (postdoc, 2009-12), Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Utah

[**Chenguang Lu**](http://people.ucas.ac.cn/~0039572) (postdoc, 2009-12), Associate Professor at National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing

[**Paul Cadden-Zimansky**](https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=3205) (postdoc, 2008-11), Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Bard College

[**Andrea Young**](http://afylab.com/) (Ph.D. 2011), Professor, Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara

[**Yue Zhao**](https://faculty.sustech.edu.cn/zhaoy/en/) (Ph.D. 2011), Associate Professor, Department of Physics, South University of Science and Technology of China

[**Yuri Zuev**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuri-m-brovman-ab01a31a) (Ph.D. 2011) Senior Manager, Buyer Experience AI at eBay

[**Young-Jun Yu**](https://youngjunyu.wixsite.com/ldmyy) (postdoc, 2008-11), Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Chungnam National University

[**Kirill Bolotin**](http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/en/einrichtungen/ag/ag-bolotin/index.html) (postdoc, 2007-10), Professor, Department of Physics, Freie Universitat, Berlin

[**Keunsoo Kim**](http://home.sejong.ac.kr/~kskim2676/) (postdoc, 2009-10), Professor, Department of Physics, Sejong University

[**Melinda Han**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/melindahan) (Ph.D. 2010), Chief Data Scientist at Dstillery

[**Namdong Kim**](http://www.dbpia.co.kr/author/authorDetail?ancId=282592) (postdoc, 2006-9), Research Scientist, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory

[**Meninder S. Purewal**](http://meninderpurewal.com/) (Ph.D. 2008) Bank of America, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

[**Xuefeng Guo**](http://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/guoxf/members/drguo/index.htm) (postdoc, 2004-7), Professor at College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University

[**Pablo Jarillo-Herrero**](http://jarilloherrero.mit.edu/) (postdoc, 2006-7), Professor, Department of Physics, MIT

[**Byung Hee Hong**](https://chem.snu.ac.kr/en/research-faculty/faculty/fulltime?mode=view&profidx=77) (postdoc, 2004-7), Professor, Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University

[**Barbaros Oezyilmaz**](http://graphene.nus.edu.sg/barbaros/) (postdoc, 2005-7), Professor, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore

[**Yuanbo Zhang**](https://zhangruanlab.com/) (Ph.D. 2006), Professor, Department of Physics, Fudan University

[**Josh Small** ](https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Joshua-Small-64243438) (Ph.D. 2006) Risk Manager, CVA at Morgan Stanley