# People Sort[Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni](http://faculty.chemistry.harvard.edu/kni/biocv) Office: Converse 132 617-496-3199 ![Kang-Kuen Ni](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-05/kang_kuen.jpg?itok=vZPfFtg1) #### Lab Administrator SortGina Yildirim Office: Converse 225 Offices ![Gina Yildirim](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/2025-05/gina_yildirim.jpg) #### Postdocs 617-496-2812 (lab) 617-496-2307 (office) SortLysander Christakis (joint with Norm Yao's group) ![Lysander Christakis](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/2025-05/lysander.jpg) Youngshin Kim ![Youngshin Kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/youngshin_kim.jpg?itok=05e5W9Xk) Roy Shaham ![Roy Shaham lab photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/pxl_20240604_142741745.jpg?itok=M9guoLZM) #### Graduate Students 617-496-2812 (lab) 617-496-2307 (office) SortRyan Cimmino ![Ryan_Cimmino](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/ryan_cimmino_01.jpeg?itok=7wOfnu81) Samuel Gebretsadkan ![Sam](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_2samuel_img_83392.jpg?itok=OaIYJeCJ) Dewei Gong (joint with Norm Yao's group) ![DeweiGongPortrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/img_1131.jpg?itok=89GeFOID) Ziguang Lin (joint with Norm Yao's group) ![ZiguangLinPortrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/img_1134.jpg?itok=6f8yboE7) Jeshurun Luke ![JeshurunLukePortrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/jl_labphoto_01.jpg?itok=krCD0h3M) Christian Harold Nunez ![ChristianHNunezPortrait](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/chn_labphoto_04.jpg?itok=YziwIAQh) Gabriel Patenotte ![Gabriel](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/gabriel_01.jpg?itok=SCLJUdb8) Yu Wang ![Yu Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/yuwang.jpg?itok=zIx6yfL2) Conner Williams ![Conner](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/conner_williams.jpg?itok=WmLAI5kK) Amanda Younes ![Amanda Younes Lab Photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/img_8508.jpg?itok=NNkvWiRQ) Robin Wang ![Robin Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/lab_photo.jpg?itok=SrOVtzvM) Santi Lopez ![Santi Lopez](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-10/IMG_6003_0.jpeg?itok=KMUhHTHJ) Jeffrey Li ![Jeffrey Li](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-03/IMG_1421.jpg?itok=Rq6y8u8B) Valerio Pagni (visiting fellow, ETH Zurich) ![Valerio Pagni](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-04/Valerio%20Pagni.jpeg?itok=FrMWi7Ps) Sort #### Undergraduates Jeffrey Shi (undergrad student) ![Jeffrey Shi](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/jeffrey_shi.png?itok=xsubTl_W) Albert Tang (undergrad student) ![Albert Tang](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2026-04/AlbertNiLabPhoto.jpeg?itok=9edhLfwl) Sort#### Former Members Li Du (postdoc from 2025-2026) Next position: Assistant Professor at Quantum Science Center of Guangdong – Hong Kong ![Li Du](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/Screenshot%202025-07-09%20at%203.43.12%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=AoqOIXA4) Lingbang Zhu (postdoc 2025, grad student from 2019-2025) Next position: Scientist at company ![lingbang](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/lingbang_pic_2.jpg?itok=lep11oKh) Kenneth Wang (postdoc 2025 and grad student from 2018-2024) Next Position: Scientist at Exponent ![Kenneth Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_11rsz_img_20170905_183015.jpg?itok=XZDKpA04) Annie Park (postdoc 2022-2024) Next position: Advanced Physicist at Quantiuum ![Annie 2](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/annie_2.jpeg?itok=oEj8Pder) Lewis Picard (grad student 2018-2024 PhD) Next position: Postdoc at Caltech ![Lewis](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_lewispicard_small.jpg?itok=UCfFUoW8) Yi-Xiang Liu (postdoc 2021-2024) Next position: Senior Product Engineering (Optical Imaging) at ASML ![Yixiang Liu](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/yixiang_crop.jpg?itok=PYm0LVyR) Fang Fang (postdoc 2020-2024) Next position: Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing ![Fang Fang](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/fang_crop.jpg?itok=hdU9gSyx) Mark Babin (postdoc 2022-2023) Next position: Engineer at Intel ![Mark Babin](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/mark_babin_2.jpg?itok=Q0cyiX-U) Hunter Kemeny (grad student 2024-2025) ![Hunter Kemeny](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/hunter_kemeny.png?itok=uWQIEiJE) Gaetan Membrez (Master visiting student, 2025) ![Gaetan Membrez](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/gaetan_membrez.jpg?itok=QTJko840) Adele Basturk (Rotation student, 2025) ![Adele](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-11/Adele.jpg?itok=pr__v0bl) Ting-An (Polly) Wang (visiting undergrad student 2025) ![Polly Wang](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/IMG_4684_0.jpg?itok=4RfK6XW2) Paul Shen (visiting undergrad student 2025) ![Paul Shen](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-07/IMG_0298.jpg?itok=bPGz3GlE) Arfor Houwman (visiting student from F. Ferlaino's group, 2023) ![Arfor Houwman](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/arfor_2.jpg?itok=RuHY6ZMr) Zitian Ye (visiting from Caltech, summer 2023) Marwa Alsabahi Visiting high school student (summer 2023) ![Marwa](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_marwa2.jpg?itok=41YbdHZX) Brayant Garcia (undergrad 2021-2023) Next: Teach for America! ![Brayant](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/brayant_2023_2.jpg?itok=sE_lctb7) 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/jz_photo2.jpg?itok=1cwI2oi4) 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/avery_parr_2.jpg?itok=nI7aAt7i) Kristina Wolinski (undergrad 2021) Next: Graduate student at Princeton ![Kirstina Wollinski](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/kristina_wollinski.jpg?itok=rWQ1uF7I) SortWilmaris Gonzales (summer high school student 2022) ![Wilmaris](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/wilmaris_4.jpg?itok=UXJnp7gp) 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/will_cairncross.jpg?itok=TTsS_3LM) Yichao Yu (grad student 2014-2021 PhD) Next position: Postdoc at Duke University ![Yichao Yu](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/yichan_yu.jpg?itok=tnF9tGbw) Ming-Guang Hu (postdoc, 2016-2021) Next position: Senior Research Scientist at QuEra Computing ![mingguang_small](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/mingguang_small.jpg?itok=L6kXiucx) 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_yu_2017.jpg?itok=zbg9gR1q) Ilona Demler (undergrad 2018-2020) (summer high school student 2016) ![Ilona](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/ilona.jpg?itok=UpeQzghA) Richard Karl (visiting master's student from ETH 2020) ![Richard](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/richar_karl.jpg?itok=KzC-oTqH) Camilo Castellanos Sanchez (undergrad 2019-2020) Next: Graduate student in physics at University of Toronto ![Camilo](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/camilo.jpg?itok=zmMaTkq_) Jonathan Hood (postdoc 2016-2019) Next: Assistant Professor at Purdue University, join him! ![jonhood](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/jonhood.jpg?itok=bUY-NcEh) Eliot Fenton (grad student 2018-2019) ![Eliot](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_eliotfenton.jpg?itok=oZxKHwe6) Yu Wang (summer undergrad 2019) Yen-Wei Lin (postdoc 2017 - 2019) Next: Optical System Engineer at Intelon Optics ![Yen-Wei Lin](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_yenwei2017.jpg?itok=qIY6IYhP) David Grimes (postdoc 2017-2019) Next: Digital Learning Lab Scientist at MIT ![David](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_davidgrimes_small.jpg?itok=le8nx3x-) 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-05/Lee%20Liu_0.jpg?itok=rDsYeJK7) Jonathan Chu (undergrad 2019) Urshella Hishaam (undergrad 2018) Andrei Gheorghe (grad student 2016 - 2018) ![rsz_andrei_small](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/rsz_andrei_small.jpg?itok=vxfSuOAs) 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](https://www.hutzlerlab.com) ![Nick Hutzler](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-05/Nick%20Hutzler_0.jpg?itok=lccslpSj) 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum11346/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/kni/files/will_compressed.jpg?itok=hkO1vMXx) Saahil Mehta (undergrad 2014-2015) Dr. Alex Gerakis (postdoc 2014-2015) Next: at Princeton University Enes Aybar (summer student 2014)