Alumni of the Simon Lab
Shiv Agrawal
Undergraduate Researcher
Currently conducting research with William Irvine
Pegg Anderson
Administrative Assistant
Currently enjoying her retirement
Henry Ando
NSF Graduate Fellow
B.S., Princeton University, 2020
Currently conducting research with Cheng Chin
Lindsay Bassman
Masters Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2015
Currently a Graduate Student at USC in High Performance Computing
Claire Baum
NSF Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2022
B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2017
Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with EJ Chichilinsky @ Stanford
Dawit Belayneh
Undergraduate Researcher
Michael Cervia
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2016
Currently a Graduate Student @ U. Wisconsin
Michelle Chalupnik
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2017
Currently a Graduate Student @ Harvard with Marko Loncar
Freddy Cisneros
Summer Researcher
Currently a Graduate Student @ JQI
Tabin Dharanikota
Undergraduate Researcher
Jeremy Estes
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2017
Currently a Graduate Student at UCSB with David Weld
Scott Eustice
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2017
Currently a Graduate Student at Berkeley with Dan Stamper-Kurn
Alexandros Georgakopoulos
Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2018, B.S., Cornell University, 2012
Graham Greve
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2014
Currently a Graduate Student at JILA with James Thompson
Matt Jaffe
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2019
Currently on sabbatical at Atom Computing; Starting as Faculty at Montana State in 2024
Jonathan Jeffrey
Graduate Rotator
B.S., Georgia Tech, 2020
Currently a Graduate Student in the Schleier-Smith Lab
Simai Jia
Graduate Rotator
B.S. University of Oxford, 2023
Maria Jimenez
Group Administrator
Jasmine Kalia
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2020
Currently a Graduate Student at MIT with Richard Fletcher @ MIT
Vassilios Kaxiras
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., Harvard University, 2024
Currently a Graduate Student with Nelson Darwak Oppong @ Caltech
Aaron Krahn
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2014
Currently a Graduate Student at Harvard with Markus Greiner
Ash Kumar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 2019
Faculty @ Stony Brook
Aman LaChapelle
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2017
Currently a Graduate Student at JILA
Yuehui Lu
Undergraduate Researcher
Currently a Graduate Student at Berkeley with Dan Stamper-Kurn
Evan Mata
Undergraduate Researcher
Katya Mikhailova
Graduate Rotator
B.S., University of Virginia, 2023
Now conducting research in the Schnitzer lab
Sarayu Narayan
Undergraduate Researcher
Jia Ningyuan
Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2018
M.S., Illinois Institute of Technology, 2013
B.S., Beijing Normal University, 2010
Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Martin Zwierlein @ MIT
Clai Owens
NSF Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2019
B.A., Emory University, 2013
Now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Caltech with Oskar Painter
Carl Padgett
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2019
Now a Graduate Student at UCSB with Ania Jayich
Lukas Palm
Graduate Student
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2026
M.S. B.S., University of Heidelberg, 2019
Margaret Panetta
NSF Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2023
B.A. Harvard University, 2017
Now working at Qubic Tech
Gabrielle Roberts
NSF Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2023
B.A. Yale University, 2018
Now working for Google Quantum AI
Sam Robison
Graduate Student
Now working with Amir Safavi Naeini's group.
Albert Ryou
NDSEG Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2017
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 2012
Scientist at Atom Computing
Brendan Saxberg
Graduate Student
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2022
B.S. University of Washington, 2016
Scientist at IBM Quantum
Nathan Schine
Grainger Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2019
B.A., Williams College, 2012
Faculty at JQI. Was NRC Postdoctoral Researcher at JILA
Tahoe Schrader
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2016
Currently Optical Engineer at Arizona Optical Systems
Jeremy Seeman
Undergraduate Researcher
Mark Stone
NSF Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2021
B.A., Princeton University, 2015
Scientist at Atom Computing
Lin Su
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2019
Currently at Graduate Student at Harvard with Markus Greiner
Aziza Suleymanzade
MRSEC Graduate Fellow
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2021
B.A., Harvard University, MPhil, University of Cambridge - 2014 (with Z. Hadzibabic)
Faculty at UC Berkeley. Was a Postdoc at Harvard.
JinWoo Sung
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2017
Currently a Graduate Student in Mathematics at UChicago
Lavanya Taneja
Graduate Student
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2025
B.S. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2018
Scientist at Atom Computing
Sohini Upadhyay
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2017
Currently a Graduate Student @ Harvard in CS, Previously Research Engineer at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Andrei Vrajitoarea
Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2020
Faculty @ NYU
Joshua Wakefield
Undergraduate Researcher
B.A., The University of Chicago, 2018
Currently a Graduate Student at Harvard
Bentley Wall
Lab Wrangler
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
B.A. The College of Wooster
Currently in charge of the James Franck Institute at UofC
Tingran Wang
Undergraduate Researcher
B.S. The University of Chicago, 2023
Currently a Graduate Student at MIT with Martin Zwierlein
Chuan Yin
Graduate Student
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2024
B.S. University of Chicago, 2018
Jered Zhang
Graduate Rotator
B.S. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2023
TianXing Zheng
Graduate Student
B.S. Peking University, 2017
Currently a Graduate Student with Peter Maurer
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