Alumni


Postdocs

Antonin (Tonda) Sojka (2025)
Lidar Engineer, Honeywell
Xiaoling (Cocoa) Wang (2021)
Assistant Professor, CSU East Bay
Marzieh Kavand (2020)
Research Associate, The Ohio State University
Mengchen Huang (2017)
Brian Youngblood (2015)
Lecturer, UCSB
Nutan Guatam (2014)
JDSU, Milpitas CA
Mattias Fehr (2013-2014)
Vinh Quang Nguyen (2012)
Research Associate, The Ohio State University
Sascha Preu (2011)
Chair of Applied Physics, FAU Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany
Susumu Takahashi (2010)
University of Southern California
Ethan Pratt (2009-2010)
Dominik Stehr (2007-2009)
Staff Scientist, Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Brendan Serapiglia (2004)
Law Student, Southwestern
Victoria Ciulin (2004)
Researcher, Dept. of Chem, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Tom King (2002)
Industrial Physicist – High Temperature Superconductors, New Zealand
Bryan Cole
Toshiba Research Lab, Cambridge
Frank Hegmann
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
James Heyman
Professor, Physics Department, Macalaster College

Graduate Students

Brad D. Price (2025)
Staff Scientist, University of Washington (Argonne National Laboratory)
Seamus D. O’Hara (2023)
Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
Joseph Costello (2023)
Exponent, Menlo Park, CA
Changyun Yoo (2022)
Postdoc, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Blake Wilson (2019)
National Institute of Health (NIH), MD
Darren Valovcin (2019)
Mathworks, MA
Jessica Clayton (2017)
Design Verification Test Engineer, Karl Storz, Goleta CA
Jonathan Essen (2017)
Hunter Banks (2017)
US Office of Naval Research
Devin Edwards (2012)
Postdoc, University of Colorado Boulder
Ben Zaks (2012)
Product Engineer, Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA
Chris Morris (2011)
Postdoc, Physics department, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA
Cristo Yee (2009)
Posdoc, Physics Departmen, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City
Sang-Woo Kim (2009)
Staff Scientist, Tanner Research
Dan Allen (2008)
Staff Researcher, Sandia National Laboratory
Nathan Jukam (2006)
Postdoc, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, France
Kohl Gill (2005)
Serving a one year democratic mission in India
Sam Carter (2004)
Staff Scientist, Naval Research Lab
Matt Doty (2004)
Post-Doctoral Scholar, Naval Reasearch Labs
Mark Su (2001)
Staff Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Jon Williams
Post-Doctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Carey Cates (2002)
Electro-Optical Engineer, Lockheed-Martin
John Cerne (1996)
Associate Professor, University at Buffalo
Brian Galdrikian
Senior Software Engineer, Mathengine, Inc
Keith Craig
William Bewley Staff member, Naval Research Lab
Chris Felix
Staff member, Naval Research Lab
John Plombon
Staff member, Surface Interface
Andrea Markelz (1995)
Associate Professor, University at Buffalo
Jeremy Levy (1993)
Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Undergraduates

Casey Bernd (2024-2026)
Graduate student at University of Washington
Miranda Claypool (2022-2024)
Graduate student at University of Oregon
Lucas Lau (2022-2024)
Graduate student at Rice University

Robert Krumland-Dunning (2022-2024)
Graduate student at UC San Diego
Audri Sewal (2020-2021)
Cameron Cannon (2020-2021)
Juntian (Oliver) Tu (2020-2021)
Alex Penzaloza (2017-2019)
Yuanqi Lyu (2017-2018)
Sam Aronson (2015-2017)
Michael Balcewicz (2015-2017)
Aaron Ma(2014-2015)
Graduate Student at UC San Diego
Andrew Pierce (2012-2015)
Graduate Student at Harvard University
Mary Lou Bailey (2012-2015)
Graduate Student at Yale University
Allegra Lattimer (2013-2014)
Graduate student at Stanford University
George Kontsevich
Stephen Parham (2008)
University of Colorado
Kiyo Akabori (2007)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Melissa Anholm (2007)
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
James Less (2005)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Tristan Rocheleau (2005)
Cornell University
Nicholas Moskovic (2003)
University of Hawaii
Sachin Patel
Xerxes Lopez-Yglesias
Caltech
Sean Roy
Stanford
Andrew Rothfuss
Greg Maskel
Cornell
Kevin Sparkman
Hughes
Basil Sabbah
Suzanne Kyre
UCSB-HEP
Jeremiah Pope

Visiting Scholars

Dr. Matthew Halsall (Summer 2006)
University of Manchester
Hartmut Roskos (Spring/Summer 2005)
Universitat Frankfurt Am Main
Prof. Martin Koch (2003)
Technische Universitat Braunschweig
Dr. Junichiro Kono
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Rice University
Dr. Karl Unterrainer
Technical University, Vienna
Prof. Chris Phillips
Imperial College, London
Philippe Boucaud
l’Institut d’electronique Fondamentale, Grenoble, France
James Heyman (2004)
Professor, Physics Department, Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN

Visiting Students

Leo Yang (Summer 2025, RMP)
Jackson Mance (Summer 2025, Intern)
Undergraduate at UCSB
Seda Peacher (Summer 2025, REU)
Graduate student at Johns Hopkins University
Angie Yao (Summer 2024, RMP)
Undergraduate at Princeton University
Jeffrey Wang (Summer 2024, RMP)
Undergraduate at Columbia University
Leonardo Ramirez-Mireles (2024, REU)
Undergraduate at Rice University
Leila Elrgdawy (2024, UCSB Quantum Foundry Research Intern)
Lillia Hammond (Summer 2023)
Simon Lange (2019)
Carmen Roelcke (2018)
Ben Jargowsky (2017)
Clara Di (2016)
Sophia Han (2016)
Sijia Zhao (2016)
Aaron Simon (2015)
Brad Katz (2015)
Nana Shumiya (2014)
Visiting student from University of California, Berkeley
Dominik Peller (2014)
Visiting student from Regensburg University
Andrea Hofmann (2013)
Visiting student from Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
Nico Krauss (2009-2010)
Visiting student from University of Konstanz, Germany
Sahar El Abbadi (Summer 2009, REU)

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