Group Photos
Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Lab, 2021.
Optical Lattice Lab, 2015.
Optical Lattice Lab, 2011.
Optical Lattice Lab, 2004.
Current Group Members
Mari Cieszynski (PhD student)
Will Christopherson (PhD student)
Jamie Eckstein (undergraduate student)
Nathan Fredman (PhD student)
Max Gold (PhD student)
Michael Highman (PhD student, co-mentored with Bryce Gadway)
Nick Kowalski (PhD student)
Lintao Li (postdoc)
Jianlong Lin (PhD student, co-mentored with Elizabeth Goldschmidt)
Pei-Wen Tsai (PhD student)
Laura Wadleigh (PhD student)
Garrett Williams (PhD student, co-mentored with Bryce Gadway)
Former Group Members
Dr. Philip Russ (PhD student), now at Uplift.
Dr. Wenchao Xu (PhD student), now faculty at ETHZ
Dr. Will Morong (PhD student), now postdoc at UMD
Dr. William McGehee (PhD student), now at NIST
Dr. Stan Kondov (PhD student), now at Atom Computing.
Dr. Josh Zirbel (postdoc), now founder of Entangleware and Principal at TDK InvenSense
Dr. David Chen (PhD student), now light-microscopy specialist at Rockefeller University.
Angela Printzis (undergraduate researcher), now graduate student at San Francisco State University
Dr. David McKay (PhD student), now quantum physicist and manager at IBM.
Dr. Carrie Meldgin (PhD student), now Senior Data Scientist at Pacific Gas and Electric
Paul Koehring (undergraduate), now at Google
Cecilia Borries (undergraduate), now in graduate school in Atmospheric Sciences at Alaska University
Dr. Lauren Aycock (undergraduate), now engineer at Ball Aerospace
Dr. Matthew Grau (undergraduate) now faculty at Old Dominion University
Dr. Matthew Pasienski (PhD student), now CEO and Founder at Pact
Dr. Hong Gao (postdoc), now faculty at Xi’an Jiaotong University
Dr. Matthew White (first DeMarco PhD student), founder of StylusLabs
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