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Lab Alumni
| Name | Present position |
|---|---|
Former postdocs | |
| Dr. Evgeny Mikheev | Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati |
| Dr. Arthur Barnard | Assistant Professor, University of Washington |
| Dr. Monica Allen | Assistant Professor, UCSD |
| Dr. Reyes Calvo | Ikerbasque Research Fellow, NanoGUNE |
| Dr. James Williams | |
| Dr. Michael Neumann | Researcher, Max Planck Institute |
| Dr. Markus König | Professor, Ruhr University Bochum |
| Dr. Matthias Baenninger | Senior Device Engineer, SanDisk |
| Dr. Sami Amasha | Researcher, Lincoln Lab |
| Dr. Michael Grobis | Research Director, HGST |
| Dr. Mark Topinka | Principal Scientist, KoBold Metals |
| Prof. Benjamin Huard | Professor, ENS Lyon |
| Prof. John Cumings | Associate Professor, University of Maryland |
| Dr. Silvia Luescher | Research Associate, UBC, Vancouver |
Former graduate students | |
| Dr. Rupini Kamat | |
| Dr. Praveen Sriram | Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI |
| Dr. Joe Finney | Senior Quantum Engineer, Quantum Motion |
| Dr. Molly Andersen | Advanced Physicist, Quantinuum |
| Dr. Linsey Rodenbach | Developer Relations Manager, Quantum Computing - NVIDIA |
| Dr. Connie Hsueh | Technology Policy, Microsoft |
| Dr. Winston Pouse | Physicist, HRL Laboratories |
| Dr. Ilan Rosen | IBM |
| Dr. Aaron Sharpe | SIMES Associate Scientist, Stanford |
| Dr. Derrick Boone | Founder/Educator, The Coding School |
| Dr. Lucas Peeters | Systems Engineer, Waymo |
| Dr. Sam Stanwyck | Group Product Manager, Quantum Computing, NVIDIA |
| Dr. Trevor Petach | Principal Consultant, Data Science & ML, Data CRT |
| Mr. Alex Hughes | Research Assistant, Exponent |
| Dr. Patrick Gallagher | Co-founder, Orca Sciences |
| Dr. Menyoung Lee | Co-founder, Orca Sciences |
| Dr. Andrew Bestwick | Senior Vice President Quantum Systems, Rigetti Computing |
| Dr. Georgi Diankov | |
| Dr. Andrew Keller | Quantum Hardware, Amazon Web Services Quantum |
| Dr. Francois Amet | Staff Systems Engineer, Northop Grumman |
| Dr. Matthew Pelliccione | Physicist, HRL Laboratories |
| Dr. Andrei Garcia | Engineer, Tesla |
| Dr. Adam Sciambi | Co-founder and scientist, Mission Bio |
| Dr. Alex Neuhausen | Web developer for Bloomberg Law |
| Dr. Arash Hazeghi | Engineer/Scientist, Apple |
| Dr. Ileana Rau | Hardware Engineering, Apple |
| Dr. Joey Sulpizio | Quantum Engineer, Quandela (Paris) |
| Dr. Nahid Harjee | Founder/Engineer, Tacta Systems Inc |
| Dr. Nimrod Stander | Engineer, Intel |
| Dr. Kathryn Todd | Scientist/Manager, Thermo Fischer Scientific |
| Dr. Michael Jura | Research Staff, HRL Laboratories |
| Dr. Charis Quay Huei Li | Senior Lecturer, Universite de Paris-Saclay |
| Dr. Hung-Tao Chou | Engineer, Western Digital |
| Dr. Lindsay Moore | |
| Dr. Ron Potok | |
| Greg Tseng | Founder and Board Member, if(we) |
Former Visitors | |
| Clara Scherm | PhD Student, ETH Zürich |
Former undergraduates | |
| Kai Wang | Undergraduate student, Stanford |
| Matt Yankowitz | Postdoc, Columbia University |
| Melis Tekant | Graduate student, MIT |
| Yani Zhai | Physics Engineer, Max Planck Institute Stuttgart |
| Jeremy Hiatt | Co-founder and Chief Engineer, Brilliant Home Technology |
| Dennis Lo | Assistant Professor, James Madison University |
| Guy Grazier G'Sell | In memoriam |
| Ryan Timmons | |
| Jacob Bien | Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
| Sanghyup Kwak | IP Attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati |
| Darin Nee | Graduate student, London School of Economics |
| Jacob Grose | Senior Manager at BASF New Business Incubation |
| Johann Schleier-Smith | Board Member, if(we) |
| Adam Cohen | Professor, Harvard |
| Grace Pan | Undergraduate, Yale |
| Andrey Sushko | Graduate student, MIT |
Former high school students | |
| Caspar Felten | High School Student, Eton College |
| Holden Kowitt | Undergraduate, UC Berkeley |
| Nolan Kowitt | Graduate student, MIT |
| Nathaniel Craig | Assistant Professor, UCSB |
| Kai Ueltzhoeffer | Graduate student in Neuroscience, Frankfurt |
| Megan Yamoah | Undergraduate, MIT |
| Paul Kivelson | Author |
Last Updated: 03/2026