Alumni

Postdocs & Research Scholars


Jason Hoffman (2015-2025), CTO, FerroStream & Associate Research Scientist, Applied Physics, Yale University

Mengke Liu (2022-2025), Assistant Professor at U. Texas Dallas

Christian Matt (2017-2021), AI team leader at eschbach

Dilek Yildiz (2019-2021), NIST Gaithersburg → JSPS Fellow, Tokyo University

Jianfeng Ge (2016-2019), Leiden University → Group Leader, Max Planck Dresden

Maoz Ovadia (2013-2018), Micro-Optics Design & Process Engineer, Apple

Mohammad Hamidian (2015-2018), Assistant Professor, U. California, Davis → Lead Data Scientist, John Hancock

PengCheng Chen (2016-2017), Princeton Institute of Materials → Tsinghua University

Zhihuai (Jason) Zhu (2013-2015), Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon Web Services

Can-Li Song (2011-2014), Associate Professor, Tsinghua University

Magdalena Huefner (2011-2013), Uni. Konstanz

Jeehoon Kim (2007-2010), Professor, Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)

Martin Zech (2007-2009), Chief Technology Officer, Attocube

Heonick Ha (2005-2006), Postdoc in Biophysics, Harvard → Partners Healthcare

PhD students


Aaron Coe (2025), Quantum Physicist, HRL (Hughes Research Laboratories)

Kevin Hauser (2025), U. Zurich

Benjamin November (2025), Senior Quantum Success Engineer, Qblox

Ruizhe Kang (2025), Product Engineer, LAM Research

Larissa Little (2024), Postdoc, Harvard

Yu (Richard) Liu (2023), Postdoc, U. Tennessee Knoxville

Alyson Spitzig (2023), Engineer, Optogration

Harry Pirie (2021), Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University → Assistant Professor, Rice University

Tatiana Webb (2019), Software Engineer, Google → Postdoc, Columbia University → Assistant Professor, Barnard College

Dennis Huang (2016), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart

Yang He (2015), Algorithmic Trader, Tower Research Capital

Nicholas Litombe (2015), Science & Technology Policy Fellow, Dept. of Energy → Principal Data Science Manager, Microsoft

Michael Yee (2014), Associate Partner, McKinsey

Ilija Zeljkovic (2013), Professor, Boston College

Anjan Soumyanarayanan (2013), Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Adam Pivonka (2012), Executive Director, JPMorgan Chase

Elizabeth Main (2011), Director of Data Science, KoBold Metals

Tess Williams (2011), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory → Director & Co-Founder, Sound Grid Partners

Yi Yin (2009), Professor, Zhejiang University

MSc students


Oliver Yam (2017), University of British Columbia

Muhammad Saleem (2017), University of British Columbia

Eddie Ji (2017), University of British Columbia

Visitors


Cun Ye, Tsinghua University (China), 2012, force microscopy (APL 2012)

Jens Oppliger, U. Zurich (Switzerland), 2022, sparse sampling QPI

Undergrads


High school



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