People

Cosmin Andrei

Cosmin is a master student in ECE from Romania. He completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton as a Physics major. He is a part of the protected qubits team. Outside of the lab Cosmin dances with BodyHype dance company, plays badminton and loves trying out new restaurants in the Princeton area.

Harshvardhan Babla

Harsh majored in Electrical Engineering with a focus in Quantum Information, along with certificates in Engineering Physics, Applied Math, and Computer Science.

His work includes characterizing fabrication techniques for Tantalum-based circuits and developing surface treatment recipe for sapphire, to reduce two level system…

Debopriyo Biswas
BA Physics, Princeton University (2019)
Debo started working with the group in 2017 on circuit quantum electrodynamics. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Maryland
William Cody Burton
Ph.D Physics, MIT (2018)
B.A Physics, Princeton University (2012)
Cody completed his senior thesis in our group, looking at tunable coupling in 3D cavities. He often sports a snazzy briefcase. He currently works as an AMO scientist at Honeywell Quantum Solutions.
Annie Carroll

Annie majored in Physics. She is studied line-graph lattices which are realizable using superconducting circuits to simulate condensed matter systems.

Annie is also got a certificate in French, and enjoys reading, cooking, being outside, and playing with animals in her free time. 

Marius Constantin
Ph.D. Applied Physics, Yale University (2019)
B.A Physics, Princeton University (2014)

Marius was an undergraduate in the Houck Lab from 2013-2014 and worked on lattice circuit QED systems. He went on to become a graduate student at Yale and currently works as a risk associate at Goldman Sachs

Youqi Gang
Youqi is a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering with certificates in Engineering Physics and Applications of Computing. She explores ways to tune superconducting qubits post-fabrication for quantum simulation and also works on improving the coherence time of transmon qubits. Outside of lab Youqi is a theater enthusiast.
Joonas Govenius
Bachelors, Princeton University

Joonas was our first undergraduate from 2009-2010. He worked on ultrastrong coupling in cQED in both theory and experiment. He went on to become a graduate student in Helsinki.

Hoang Le
Hoang is a senior in Electrical Engineering at Princeton with a certificate in Engineering Physics. He explores novel qubit species with better encoding scheme and also studies the surface losses of tantalum qubits, aiming at higher qubit coherence times. Hoang has fourteen years of experience in documenting trains and remote stations in Vietnam,…
Connie Miao
Connie studied Physics with a a certificate in Applications of Computing. For her thesis, she is working on designing a more fault-tolerant zero-pi qubit. Previously, she has also worked on FPGA-based qubit control in the Houck Lab. When she's not in the lab or debugging code, she's probably hunting down good eats, exploring the science of bread…
Zander Pease
A.B Physics, Princeton University (2012)
Alexander Pease was a senior in our research group. His senior thesis involved fabricating extremely low frequency cavities to look at strong coupling in a highly multimode structure. He currently works as a partner at Product Co-op.
Arthur Safira
Ph.D Physics, Harvard University (2018)
M.A Computer Science, Harvard University (2015)
B.S Physics, Princeton University (2012)
Arthur Safira was a senior in his second year in our group, and worked on very large arrays of transmon qubits. He currently works as a hardware and software engineer at Waymo.
Katherine Van Kirk
MASt Applied Mathematics ("Part III"), Cambridge University (2020)
B.S.H Engineering Physics, Stanford University (2019)
Katherine worked with the Houck group through the QURIP program (joint quantum research program between Princeton and IBM). Her work in the lab included (1) simulating magnetic lattices, (2) exploring different theoretical approaches to calculating hopping rates, and (3) investigating interesting properties/patterns in lattice band structures,
Tony Zhu
B.S.E Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (2011)

Tony Zhu was an undergraduate in our group from 2010-2011. He worked on breaking time reveral symmetry in superconducting devices and, thankfully, didn't break much else. He is now a graduate student at MIT.