People

 

Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni
Office: Converse 132
ni@chemistry.harvard.edu  
617-496-3199 
Kang-Kuen Ni

Lab Administrator

Gina Yildirim
gyildirim@g.harvard.edu 
Office: Converse 225 Offices

 

 

Gina Yildirim

 

Postdocs

617-496-2812 (lab) 617-496-2307 (office)

Lysander Christakis (joint with Norm Yao's group)
lchristakis@g.harvard.edu
Lysander Christakis
Youngshin Kim
Roy Shaham lab photo

Graduate Students

617-496-2812 (lab) 617-496-2307 (office) 

Ryan_Cimmino
Samuel Gebretsadkan
sgebretsadkan@g.harvard.edu
 
Sam
Dewei Gong (joint with Norm Yao's group)
deweigong@g.harvard.edu
DeweiGongPortrait
Ziguang Lin (joint with Norm Yao's group)
ziguanglin@g.harvard.edu
 
ZiguangLinPortrait
JeshurunLukePortrait
Christian Harold Nunez
 chnunez@g.harvard.edu
 
ChristianHNunezPortrait

Gabriel Patenotte
gpatenott@g.harvard.edu

 
Gabriel
Yu Wang
Conner
Amanda Younes Lab Photo
Robin Wang

Santi Lopez

santilopez@g.harvard.edu

 

 

 

 

Santi Lopez

 

Jeffrey Li
jeffreyli@g.harvard.edu

 

 

 

Jeffrey Li

 

Valerio Pagni (visiting fellow, ETH Zurich)

valeriopagni@fas.harvard.edu


 

 

Valerio Pagni

 

 

Undergraduates                                           

 
 
 

Jeffrey Shi (undergrad student)
jshi@college.harvard.edu
 

                                                                        

Jeffrey Shi
 
 
 

Albert Tang (undergrad student)

alberttang@college.harvard.edu

 

 

 

Albert Tang
 
 

Former Members

 

Li Du (postdoc from 2025-2026)

lidu@g.harvard.edu

Next position: Assistant Professor at Quantum Science 

Center of Guangdong – Hong Kong

 

Li Du

Lingbang Zhu (postdoc 2025, grad student from 2019-2025)
lzhu@g.harvard.edu

Next position: Scientist at company

lingbang

Kenneth Wang (postdoc 2025 and grad student from 2018-2024)
kwang02@g.harvard.edu

Next Position: Scientist at Exponent

 

Kenneth Wang

Annie Park (postdoc 2022-2024)

Next position: Advanced Physicist at Quantiuum 

 

 

Annie 2

Lewis Picard (grad student 2018-2024 PhD)

Next position: Postdoc at Caltech

 

Lewis

Yi-Xiang Liu (postdoc 2021-2024)

Next position: Senior Product Engineering (Optical Imaging) at ASML

 

Yixiang Liu

Fang Fang (postdoc 2020-2024)

Next position: Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing

Fang Fang

Mark Babin (postdoc 2022-2023)

Next position: Engineer at Intel

Mark Babin

Hunter Kemeny (grad student 2024-2025)

hkemeny@g.harvard.edu

 

 

 

Hunter Kemeny

 

Gaetan Membrez (Master visiting student, 2025)
gmembrez@fas.harvard.edu

 

 

 

 

Gaetan Membrez
Adele Basturk (Rotation student, 2025)
abasturk@g.harvard.edu

 

Adele

 

 

 

Ting-An (Polly) Wang (visiting undergrad student 2025)

tinganwang@g.harvard.edu

Polly Wang

 

 

 

Paul Shen (visiting undergrad student 2025)

paulshen@fas.harvard.edu

 

Paul Shen
Arfor Houwman (visiting student from F. Ferlaino's group, 2023)
Arfor Houwman
Zitian Ye (visiting from Caltech, summer 2023)
 
Marwa Alsabahi 
Visiting high school student (summer 2023)
Marwa
Brayant Garcia (undergrad 2021-2023)
Next: Teach for America!
Brayant
Philip Osterholz
(visiting master's student, Eberhard Karls University 2022)
 
Jessie Zhang (grad student 2015-2021 PhD, postdoc 2021-2022)
Next position: Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley
Jessie Zhang
Yuan Chen (visiting master's student, Imperial College London 2022
Next position: Grad student at Caltech)
 
 
Jorge Garcia (undergrad summer 2022)
 
Santiago Giner (undergrad summer 2022)
 
Edward Koh (undergrad summer 2022)
 
Nico Miller (undergrad summer 2022)
 
Avery Parr (undergrad 2020-2022)
 
Avery

Kristina Wolinski (undergrad 2021)

Next: Graduate student at Princeton

Kirstina Wollinski
Wilmaris Gonzales
(summer high school student 2022)
Wilmaris

Matthew Nichols (postdoc 2019-2021)
Next position: Apple Inc.

Now: Quantitative Researcher, Radix Trading LLC

 

 
William Cairncross (postdoc 2019-2021)
Next position: Senior Quantum Engineer at Atom Computing
William Cairncross

Yichao Yu (grad student 2014-2021 PhD)
Next position: Postdoc at Duke University
Yichao Yu
Ming-Guang Hu (postdoc, 2016-2021)
Next position: Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing
mingguang_small

Yu Liu (grad student, 2014-2020 PhD)
Next position: Postdoc at NIST-Boulder

Now: Assistant Prof at Univ of Maryland, College Park, join him!

Yu Liu
Ilona Demler (undergrad 2018-2020)
(summer high school student 2016)
Ilona
Richard Karl (visiting master's student from ETH 2020)
Richard

Camilo Castellanos Sanchez (undergrad 2019-2020)

Next: Graduate student in physics at University of Toronto

Camilo
Jonathan Hood (postdoc 2016-2019)
Next: Assistant Professor at Purdue University, join him!
jonhood
Eliot Fenton (grad student 2018-2019)
Eliot
Yu Wang (summer undergrad 2019)
 
Yen-Wei Lin (postdoc 2017 - 2019)
Next: Optical System Engineer at Intelon Optics
Yen-Wei Lin
David Grimes (postdoc 2017-2019)
Next: Digital Learning Lab Scientist at MIT
David
Sara Manning (summer high school student 2019)
Next: Undergraduate at Harvard
 
Lee Liu (grad student 2014-2019, PhD)
Next position: Postdoc in JILA
Lee Liu
Jonathan Chu (undergrad 2019)
 
Urshella Hishaam (undergrad 2018)
 
Andrei Gheorghe (grad student 2016 - 2018)
rsz_andrei_small
Lingbang Zhu (summer student 2018)
 
Rémy Vatre (visiting student 2017-2018)
 
William Fu (undergrad 2018)
 
Jason Rosenberg (undergrad 2015 - 2017)
Next: grad student in physics at Princeton
 
Constantin Arnscheidt (undergrad 2017)
Next: grad student at MIT
 
Frederic Condin (visiting master's student 2016-2017)
 
Nick Hutzler (postdoc 2014-2017)
Next: Assistant Professor at Caltech, www.hutzlerlab.com
 
Nick Hutzler
Colin MacGinnitie (summer student 2016)
 
Ilona Demler (summer high school student 2016)
Next: Ungraduate at Harvard
 
Eugene O'Friel (undergrad 2016)
 
Will Tobias (undergrad 2014-2016)
Next: grad student in physics at CU Boulder/JILA
will_compressed
Saahil Mehta (undergrad 2014-2015)
 
Dr. Alex Gerakis (postdoc 2014-2015)
Next: at Princeton University
 
Enes Aybar (summer student 2014)