Current Group Members
Quantum Optics group (Fall 2023)
Back row, from left to right: Irina Novikova, Will Torg, Kevin Su, Owen Rollins, Chester Zimmerman, Rob Behary, Eugeniy Mikhailov, Nic DeStefano, Ritvik Annadi; Front row, from left to right:
Charrise Gabaldon, Mario Gonzalez Maldonado, Jennifer Tsai, Kalea Wan, Ziqi Niu.
Historical group pictures
Group leaders
Irina NovikovaEugeniy Mikhailov
Postdoctoral researchers
Mykhailo Vorobiov (PINQueD collaboration)
Graduate students
Ziqi NiuCharris Gabaldon
Nic DeStephano (QET project)
Rob Behary
Nehal Khan
Undergraduate students
Kevin SuJasmin Guo
Will Torg
Owen Rollins
Kalea Wen
Jennifer Tsai
Benjamin You
Former Group Members
2023
Mario Gonzalez Maldonado (Postdoc at NIST, Boulder)Marcia Suria (Graduate student at Teachers College, Columbia University)
Ramisa Rahman (Graduate student at Yale)
2022
Dr. Savannah Cuozzo (Postdoc at Sandia National Lab)Sofia Brown (Graduate student at University of Colorado, Boulder)
Jiahui Li (Graduate student at CalTech)
Alex Toyryla (Research Assistant at John Hopkins Univ)
Caitlyn Marat (software developer at Amazon)
2021
Jonathan Diaz-Ramos (Graduate student at Virginia Tech)2020
Dr. Nik Prajapati (Postdoc at NIST, Boulder)Dr. Scott Madaras (Postdoc at Sandia National Lab )
Kangning Yang (Graduate student at Stanford Univ.)
Hana Warner (Graduate student at Harvard Univ.)
Alex Fay (Test Engineer at Corvid Technologies)
2019
Jason Creeden (Process Engineer at Intel Corporation)Ravn Jenkins (Graduate student at Univ. of Arizona)
Austin Kalasky (Manufacturing Process Engineer at Electron Energy Corporation)
2018
Nathan Super (Associate at Princeton Consultants)2017
Dr. Mi Zhang (Optical Engineer)Dr. Gleb Romanov (Postdoc at the UC Boulder)
Melissa Guidry (Fulbright Scholar, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France, then graduate student at Stanford Univ.)
Zach Thomas
2016
Dr. Ellie Radue (Postdoc at the University of Virginia)Ashna Aggarwal (Graduate student in Planetary Science, UCLA)
Haley Bauser (Graduate student, CalTech)
Owen Wolfe (Graduate student, Montana State University)
Hunter Rew (software engineer at Decisive Analytics)
2015
Dr. Matt Simons (Postdoc at NIST, Boulder)Kelly Roman (Scientist, Arete Associates)
2014
Jesse Evans (Graduate student, Dartmouth College)Joe Scholle
2013
Dr.Travis Horrom (Postdoc at NIST, Geithesberg)Evan Crisman (Graduate student in Medical Physics, University of Pennsylvania)
Bain Bronner (Analyst at PIEtech, Inc.)
Matt Argao
2012
Dr. Nate Phillips (Postdoc at NIST, Boulder)Jake Fry (Graduate student, Rice University)
Pasha Zhuravlev
2011
Kevin Cox (Graduate student, University of Colorado) Quint Gribbin (Research assistant, Georgetown University)Chris Carlin (Jefferson lab)
2010
Francesca Fornasini (Graduate student in Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley) Paul Stubbs (Master Program in Accounting, the College of William&Mary)2009
Nathan Belcher (Physics teacher in Grafton high school, Yorktown, VA)Joe Goldfrank (in U.S. Navy Officer Candidate School and Naval Nuclear Power School)
William Ames (Graduate student, University of Colorado)