Lab Members
David Weld
Professor, Department of Physics
Contact
Phone: (805) 893-7634
Email: weld@physics.ucsb.edu
Office: Broida 4119
Education
Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University, 2007.
B.A. in Physics, Harvard University, 1998.
Bio
David's research interests include quantum simulation of ultrafast phenomena, nonequilibrium quantum dynamics, Floquet band engineering, anyon synthesis, quasiperiodicity, and quantum metrology. He is the co-director of the Eddleman Center for Quantum Innovation, lead PI for the InTriQATe NRT and co-design lead for quantum simulation for the DOE Quantum Science Center.
Curriculum Vitae
Xiao Chai
Postdoctoral Researcher
Contact
Email: xchai@ucsb.edu
Bio
Xiao is a postdoc working on the lithium experiment. He received his Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech, where he did his thesis research about spinor gases in Chandra Raman's lab.
Jared Pagett
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: jpagett@ucsb.edu
Bio
Jared is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB.
Jeremy Tanlimco
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: tanlimco@physics.ucsb.edu
Bio
Jeremy is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB. As an undergraduate at Yale, he designed and built monitoring software, vacuum chambers, laser systems, and high-current electronics for ultracold atom experiments in the Navon group.
Eber Nolasco-Martinez
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: eber@ucsb.edu
Bio
Eber is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB. As an undergraduate at MIT he worked in the Ketterle group on the ultracold molecule experiment.
Yifei Bai
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: yifeibai@ucsb.edu
Bio
Yifei is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB. As an undergraduate at University of Washington, he participated in the Eöt-Wash Gravity Group and Gupta’s Ultracold Atomic Group.
Jeremy Estes
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: jestes@umail.ucsb.edu
Bio
Jeremy is a graduate student in Physics at UCSB. As an undergraduate at the University of Chicago he worked on building a cryogenic MOT in the Simon Lab. After working in the Acoustics and AV industry for a few years, he returned to the U of C as a research assistant to build an optical spectroscopy apparatus for investigating defect-center pairs in diamond, in the Bernien and High groups.
Anna Dardia
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: dardia@ucsb.edu
Bio
Anna is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB. As an undergraduate at UChicago, she did research on ultrafast spectroscopy in the Engel Group.
Madeleine Bow Jun Leibovitch
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: mbl@ucsb.edu
Bio
Madeleine is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB. She attended Barnard College for her B.A. in physics, and worked at LBNL on neutrino detector R&D as an undergraduate intern, and in the Berkeley ATLAS group as a post-baccalaureate intern.
Nicole Halawani
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: nicolehalawani@umail.ucsb.edu
Bio
Nicole is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB. She attended UCLA for her B.A. in physics, and worked with Wes Campbell's ion trapping group.
Petros Kousis
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: pkousis@umail.ucsb.edu
Bio
Petros is a graduate student in the physics department at UCSB. As an undergraduate at the University of Birmingham, he worked on Rydberg EIT with Professor Amita Deb.
Jing-Wei Yang
Graduate Student Researcher
Contact
Email: jing-wei@umail.ucsb.edu
Bio
Jing-Wei is a graduate student in Physics at UCSB. He received his B.S. in Physics from National Chung Cheng University, where he studied EIA with Prof. Dian-Jiun Han. He earned his M.S. at National Taiwan University, working with Prof. Yu-Jung Lu on nanophotonics and superconducting single-photon detectors. He later joined Foxconn to work on a trapped ion quantum computing project.
Samyuktha Ramanan
Undergraduate Researcher
Contact
Email: sramanan@ucsb.edu
Bio
Samyuktha is an undergraduate student in Physics at UCSB.
Xuanwei Liang
Undergraduate Researcher
Contact
Email: x_liang@ucsb.edu
Bio
Xuanwei is an undergraduate student in Physics at UCSB.
Jack Kingdon
Undergraduate Researcher
Contact
Email: jackkingdon@ucsb.edu
Bio
Jack is an undergraduate student in Physics at UCSB.
Eric Zhu
Undergraduate Researcher
Contact
Email: e_zhu@ucsb.edu
Bio
Eric is an undergraduate student in Physics at UCSB.
Shravan Ramanand
Undergraduate Researcher
Contact
Email: shravanramanand@ucsb.edu
Bio
Shravan is an undergraduate student in Physics at UCSB.
Former Lab Members
Postdocs and graduate students
Roshan Sajjad (HRL)Peter Dotti (ARPA-E)
Quinn Simmons (AOSense)
Esat Kondakci (PD) (PsiQuantum)
Hector Mas (PD) (Alcon)
Cora Fujiwara (Assistant Professor, Lehigh)
Shankari Rajagopal (Assistant Professor, U Michigan)
Kevin Singh (Assistant Professor, Ohio State)
Ruwan Senaratne (HRL)
Zach Geiger (HRL)
Vyacheslav Lebedev (PD) (Los Alamos)
Undergraduates and visitors
Sidd Mukherjee (Yale)Ian Olivant
Eila Neuroth
Jack Pan (UCI)
Alec Cao (Cambridge University, UC Boulder)
Max Prichard (Princeton)
Katya Weiss
Yi Zeng (Caltech)
James Chow (Yale)
Shuo Ma (Princeton)
Sean Frazier (Yale)
Morgan Brubaker (Stanford)
Jacob Hines (Stanford)
Ian Harley-Trochimczyk
Krutik Patel (University of Chicago)
Eli Wolf (Stanford)
Alan Long (UIUC)
Delia Gratta
Dylan Kennedy (UC Santa Cruz)
Anne Hébert (Harvard)
Eric Corsini
Xiaofei Zhou (UC Berkeley)
Erica Mason (Harvard/MIT MEMP Program)
Erik Anciaux (UT Austin)
Ted Robinson
Andrew Ballin (UC Davis)
Cécile Carcy (Institut d'Optique)
Robert Salazar
Max Garber
Shura Kotlerman
Vincent Hirtzel
Ian Seabury
Benjamin Swan
Kyle Oja