Mattias Fitzpatrick
Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (2019)
B.A Physics Middlebury College (2013)
Mattias hails from the great state of Oregon and is a graduate of Middlebury College. He became a member of the lab in 2013 and worked on nonequilibrium phase transitions in the Jaynes-Cummings lattice.
Thomas Hazard
Ph.D Physics, Princeton University (2019)
Tom comes from sunny Southern California. He became a member of the lab since 2017 and worked on topologically protected qubits. He loves baking bread and loafing around.
Zhaoqi Leng
Engineering Physics, B.S. Cornell 2014
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Zhaoqi Leng joined the lab in 2015. He worked on creating and stabilizing entanglement in circuit QED systems. He is researching new optimization/machine learning methods for quantum control and readout.
Yanbing Liu
Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (2016)
B.S. Physics Tsinghua University (2010)
Yanbing Liu pioneered the work on photonic bound states in the Houck lab and now is a quantitative researcher at Trade Link in Chicago.
Pranav Mundada
Master of Science in Physics from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) [2016]
Bachelor of Science (Research) in Physics with Distinction from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) [2015]
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Pranav hails from Nasik, the wine capital of India, but he does not know his wines. On finding a problem interesting and impactful enough, he does not hesitate to jump outside his area of expertise. He develops protected qubit designs, crosstalk suppressing quantum architectures and novel optimal control schemes for implementing qubit gates. He…
Alex Place
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Alex finished his PhD with the group in 2022. He built and studied qubits which are intrinsically insensitive to noise. Alex grew up in Arlington VA and received his B.S. in physics from Caltech. Outside of lab Alex coached the Degenerate Dopers (the department softball team) and enjoyed play sports, backpacking, and skiiing.
Anjali Premkumar
Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (2023)
B.S Applied Physics, Caltech (2017)
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Anjali is PhD graduate from the Houck Lab who defended in the summer of 2023. She is from Pittsburgh, PA and she did her undergraduate studies in Applied Physics at Caltech. She enjoys singing and dancing, especially to Taylor Swift songs. Her favorite season is summer, and her favorite ice cream is dark chocolate. She is exploring 0-pi and…
Srikanth Srinivasan
Ph.D Princeton University
Srikanth Srinivasan was brave enough to be the first graduate student in the Houck Lab. While he was a graduate student, he worked on both the tunable coupling qubit and photon blockade experiments. After leaving Princeton he joined the research staff at IBM before returning to Princeton again for a post-doc with Nathalie de Leon.
Neereja Sundaresan
PhD Princeton University (2018)
Neereja became a member of the lab in the spring of 2013. She studied the ultra-low frequency regime in circuit QED and explored the interactions that arise when a single qubit is strongly coupled to multi-mode cavity.
Sara Sussman
B.A Physics, Boston University (2018)
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Sara is a 5th year graduate student working on two-qubit gates and RFSOC based qubit control. Outside of lab she enjoys exploring new places, running and hanging out with friends.
Devin Underwood
Ph.D. Princeton University
B.S Physics and Mathematics University of Wisconsin- River Falls
Devin Underwood works on arrays of cQED elements for purposes of studying condensed matter physics with photons. He hales from frosty Alaska, and is known for wearing strange clothes during talks.
Devin is now a member of the research staff at HRL.
Andrei Vrajitoarea
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Andrei joined the HouckLab in 2015 after finishing his undergraduate studies at University College London. His work has been focused on engineering photon interactions for next generation qubits and quantum simulation platforms. Currently, he is exploring transport in a multi-mode photonic crystal coupled to an artificial quantum impurity.
Gengyan Zhang
Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (2018)
M.S Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University (2011)
B.S Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University (2008)
Gengyan became a member of the Houck Lab in 2011 after receiving his bachelor's and master's degree from Tsinghua University. Known in the group as the fab machine.
