June 2021
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Christopher Monroe [c.monroe@duke.edu]
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Alexander Kozhanov [alexander.kozhanov@duke.edu]
POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES
George Toh [george.toh@duke.edu]
Mikhail Shalaev [mikhail.shalaev@duke.edu]
Yichao Yu [yichao.yu@duke.edu]
Liudmila Zhukas [liudmila.zhukas@duke.edu]
Adam Vernon [adam.vernon@duke.edu]
Henry Luo [de.luo@duke.edu]
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Debopriyo Biswas [d.biswas@duke.edu]
Sagnik Saha [sagnik.saha@duke.edu]
Isabella Goetting [isabella.goetting@duke.edu]
Bahaa Haaraz [bahaa.haaraz@duke.edu]
Emma Stavropoulos [emma.stavropoulos@duke.edu]
Vivian Zhang [vivian.zhang@duke.edu]
Keqin Yan [keqin.yan@duke.edu]
Ashish Kalakuntla [ashish.kalakuntla@duke.edu]
Rob Cady [rob.cady@duke.edu]
Jiujun Yu [jiajun.yu@duke.edu]
Harriet Shi [harriet.shi@duke.edu]
Ian Wildemann [ian.wildemann@duke.edu]
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Saketha (Saki) Male [sakim08@unc.edu]
Siddharth (Sidd) Vijaymurugan [siddharth.vijaymurugan@duke.edu]
OLD GROUP PHOTOS
12/2017, 12/2016, 6/2015 (alternate), 7/2013, 4/2012, 12/2010, 4/2010, 2/2008, 7/2005, 8/2004, 4/2003, 12/2001
Christopher Monroe
Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor
Departments of ECE and Physics, Duke University
Vitae (3/25) / Ancestry / AIP-Interview
email: [c.monroe@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105, 2108, 2109, 2111
Office: Chesterfield 4826
Phone: 443-766-9417
Alex Kozhanov
Research Professor
Department of ECE, Duke University
email: [alexander.kozhanov@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2108
Office:
Phone:
George Toh
Postdoctoral Researcher
email: [george.toh@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Office:
Phone:
Mikhail (Misha) Shalaev
Postdoctoral Researcher
email: [mikhail.shalaev@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Office:
Phone:
Yichao Yu

Postdoctoral Researcher
email: [yichao.yu@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2108
Lab phone:
Office:
Liudmila (Mila) Zhukas
Postdoctoral Researcher
email: [liudmila.zhukas@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2108
Lab phone:
Office:
Adam Vernon
Postdoctoral Researcher
email: [adam.vernon@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:
Henry Luo
Postdoctoral Researcher
email: [de.luo@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2111
Lab phone:
Office:
Debopriyo (Debo) Biswas
Graduate Student
email: [d.biswas@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2108
Lab phone:
Office:
Sagnik Saha
Graduate Student
email: [sagnik.saha@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Lab phone:
Office:
Isabella Goetting
Graduate Student
email: [isabella.goetting@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Lab phone:
Office:
Bahaa Harraz
Graduate Student
email: [bahaa.haaraz@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2108
Lab phone:
Office:
Emma Stavropoulos
Graduate Student
email: [emma.stavropoulos@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:
Vivian Zhang
Graduate Student
email: [vivian.zhang@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2108
Lab phone:
Office:
Keqin Yan
Graduate Student
email: [keqin.yan@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2108
Lab phone:
Office:
Ashish Kalakuntla
Graduate Researcher
email: [ashish.kalakuntla@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Lab phone:
Office:
Rob Cady
Graduate Researcher
email: [rob.cady@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:
Jiujun Yu
Graduate Researcher
email: [jiujun.yu@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:
Harriet Shi
Graduate Researcher
email: [jiujun.yu@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Lab phone:
Office:
Ian Wildemann
Graduate Researcher
email: [ian.wildemann@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:
Saketha (Saki) Male
Undergraduate Researcher
email: [sakim08@unc.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Lab phone:
Office:
Siddarth (Sidd) Vijaymurugan
Undergraduate Researcher
email: [siddharth.vijaymurugan@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:
GROUP ALUMNI
Name | Former Position | Current Position |
Arinjoy De | Grad Student (2018-2024) | Physicist, Quera, Inc., Boston, MA arinjoy0010@gmail.com |
Qingfeng (Kee) Wang | Grad Student (2018-2024) | Postdoc Researcher, Tufts University q.kee.wang@gmail.com |
Or Katz | Postdoc Researcher (2021-2024) | Assistant Professor, Cornell University ok86@cornell.edu |
Ashrit Verma | Undergrad Student (2022-2024) | |
Jameson O’Reilly | Grad Student (2019-2024); Undergrad Student (2014-2018) | University of Oregon jamesonoreilly@gmail.com |
Kate Collins | Grad Student (2017-2023); Undergrad Student (2014-2018) | Army Research Laboratory |
Lei Feng | Postdoc Researcher; Research Scientist (2019-2023) | Assistant Professor, Fudan University leifeng@fudan.edu.cn |
Sophie Decoppet | Asst Researcher (2022-2023) | Oxford University |
Drew Risinger | Grad Student (2018-2022) | Intel Corporation |
Will Morong | Postdoc Researcher (2019-2022) |
Quantum Research Scientist, Amazon-AWS, Pasadena, CA w.n.morong@gmail.com |
Crystal Noel | Postdoc Researcher (2019-2021) |
Assistant Professor of ECE and Physics, Duke University crystal.noel@duke.edu |
Marko Cetina | Research Scientist (2016-2020) |
Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke University marko.cetina@duke.edu |
Patrick Becker | Grad Student (2016-2021) |
SETA, DARPA/Booz-Allen Hamilton, Arlington VA patrick.becker.ctr@darpa.mil |
Allison Carter | Grad Student (2016-2021) |
Postdoc, NIST Ion Storage, Boulder, CO allison.carter@nist.gov |
Daiwei Zhu | Grad Student(2016-2021) | Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD zhu@ionq.co |
Abhishek Menon | Undergrad Student (2016-2021) |
Graduate Student, Rice University, Houston TX am219@rice.edu |
Sophia Scarano | Undergrad Student (2016-2021) |
Data Scientist, Booz-Allen Hamilton, Arlington, VA scaranosophia@gmail.com |
Antonis Kyprianidis | Grad Student (2016-2021) |
Postdoc, Indiana University akyprian@iu.edu |
Albert Chu | Undergrad Student (2016-2021) |
Applications Developer, Accelered, Bethesda MD achu@accelered.com |
Wen Lin Tan | Grad Student (2016-2021) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD tan@ionq.co |
Laird Egan | Grad Student (2017-2021) |
Senior Systems Engineer, IonQ, College Park MD egan@ionq.co |
Ksenia Sosnova | Grad Student (2015-2020) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD sosnova@ionq.co |
Guido Pagano | Postdoc Researcher (2015-2019) |
Assistant Professor of Physics, Rice University, Houston, TX pagano@rice.edu |
Michael Goldman | Postdoc Researcher (2017-2019) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD goldman@ionq.co |
Harvey Kaplan | Grad Student (2014-2019) |
Engineer, Northrop Grumman, Baltimore, MD harveykaplan129@gmail.com |
Marty Lichtman | Postdoc Researcher (2015-2019) |
Senior Physicist, ColdQuanta, Madison, WI marty.lichtman@gmail.com |
Kevin Landsman | Grad Student (2015-2019) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD landsman@ionq.com |
Norbert Linke | Postdoc Researcher (2015-2018) | Assistant Professor, Duke University norbert.linke@duke.edu |
Micah Hernandez | Undergrad Student (2015-2018) |
Laboratory Technician at ANSYS, Inc., Beltsville, MD micah124@verizon.net |
Clayton Crocker | Grad Student (2013-2018) |
Quantum Engineering Solution Planner, Keysight Technologies claycroc@gmail.com |
Kristi Beck | Postdoc Researcher (2016-2018) |
Senior Physicist, Livermore National Laboratory beck37@llnl.gov |
Jiehang Zhang | Postdoc Researcher (2015-2018) |
Asst. Professor of Physics, New York University, New York City, NY jiehang.zhang@gmail.com |
Caroline Figgatt | Grad Student (2012-2018) |
Senior Advanced Physicist, Quantinuum, Broomfield, CO cmfiggatt@gmail.com |
David Wong-Campos | Grad Student (2016-2017) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD jwongcampos@gmail.com |
Steven Moses | Postdoc Researcher (2016-2017) |
Senior Advanced Physicist, Quantinuum, Broomfield CO samoses5@gmail.com |
Kai Hudek | Research Scientist (2016-2017) | Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD hudek@ionq.co |
Paul Hess | Postdoc Researcher (2014-2017) |
Assistant Professor of Physics, Middlebury College, VT phess@middlebury.edu |
Hanna Ruth | Undergrad Student (2016-2017) |
Engineer, Draper Labs, Cambridge, MA |
Ken Wright | Grad Student (2012-2017) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD wright@ionq.co |
Jason Amini | Research Scientist (2016-2017) | Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD amini@ionq.co |
Jonathan Mizrahi | Research Scientist (2015-2017) | Director of Hardware, IonQ, College Park MD mizrahi@ionq.co |
Volkan Inlek | Grad Student (2016) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD inlek@ionq.co |
Shantanu Debnath | Grad Student (2016) |
Senior Physicist, IonQ, College Park MD debnath@ionq.co |
Kale Johnson | Grad Student (2016) |
Founder, Bite Developers, Inc. Colorado Spgs, CO kale.gifford.johnson@gmail.com |
Jake Smith | Grad Student (2016) |
Northrop Grumman, Baltimore MD htimsjacob@gmail.com |
Aaron Lee | Grad Student (2016) |
Northrop Grumman, Baltimore MD aaron.c.lee07@gmail.com |
Geoffrey Ji | Undergrad Student (2015) |
Quantitative Researcher, Citadel Securities geoffreyji@gmail.com |
David Hucul | Grad Student (2015) |
Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome NY david.hucul@afrl.af.mil |
Brian Neyenhuis | Postdoc Researcher (2015) |
Commercial Operations Group Leader, Quantinuum, Broomfield CO neyenhuis@gmail.com |
Phil Richerme | Postdoc Researcher (2015) |
Asst. Professor, Indiana University richerme@indiana.edu |
Grahame Vittorini | Postdoc Researcher (2015) |
Senior R&D Manager, Quantinuum, Minneapolis, MN Grahame.Vittorini@quantinuum.com |
Crystal Senko | Grad Student (2014) |
Assoc. Professor, IQC and University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CA csenko@uwaterloo.ca |
Taeyoung Choi | Postdoc Researcher (2014) |
Professor of Physics, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea tchoi@ewha.ac.kr |
Daniel Brennan | Undergrad Student (2014) |
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago teddanbren@gmail.com |
Andrew Manning | Grad Student (2014) |
Senior Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications |
Chenglin Cao | Postdoc Researcher (2014) |
Quantitative Researcher, Citadel, Chicago, IL charlescao83@gmail.com |
Jonathan Mizrahi | Grad Student (2013) |
Director of Hardware, IonQ, College Park MD mizrahi@ionq.co |
Susan Clark | Postdoc Researcher (2013) |
Physicist, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM sclark@sandia.gov |
Simcha Korenblit | Grad Student (2013) |
Physicist, Lightsolver, Tel Aviv, Israel simcha.korenblit@gmail.com |
David Hayes | Grad Student (2012) |
Principal Theorist, Quantinuum, Broomfield CO dhayes12345@gmail.com |
Ilka Geisel | Guest Grad Student (2012) |
Graduate Student, Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover geisel@iqo.uni-hannover.de |
Rajibul Islam | Grad Student (2012) |
Assoc. Professor of Physics, IQC and University of Waterloo krislam@uwaterloo.ca |
Wes Campbell | Postdoc Resarcher (2012) |
Professor of Physics, UCLA wes@physics.ucla.edu |
Kenny Lee | Undergrad Student (2012) |
Quantum Hardware Engineer, Google, Santa Barbara, CA kenneth.lee.iii@gmail.com |
Brian Fields | Undergrad Student (2012) | Graduate Student, Purdue bfields1132@gmail.com |
Charles Conover | Guest Professor (2011) |
Professor of Physics, Colby College charles.conover@colby.edu |
Le Luo | Postdoc Researcher (2008-2011) |
Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China luole5@mail.sysu.edu.cn |
Emily Edwards | Postdoc Researcher (2009-2011) |
Executive Director, IQUIST, University of Illinois, Urbana IL edwardse@illinois.edu |
Kihwan Kim | Postdoc Researcher (2007-2011) |
Professor, Tsinghua University Dept. of Physics, Beijing, China kimkihwan@tsinghua.edu.cn |
Jon Sterk | Grad Student (2005-2011) |
Quantum Physicist, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM jsterk@gmail.com |
Grace Young | HS Student (2009-2010) |
Senior Research Engineer and Lead Scientist at Alphabet X, Mountain View, CA calvertyoung@gmail.com |
Jennifer Wang | HS Student (2009-2010) |
Google, Mountain View, CA jen@jewang.net |
Qudsia Quraishi | Postdoc Researcher (2008-2010) |
Research Fellow, Army Res. Lab.; Adjunct Professor, UMD quraishi@umd.edu |
Dzmitry Matsukevich | Postdoc Researcher (2006-2010) |
Professor, National University of Singapore phymd@nus.edu.sg |
Ming-Shien Chang | Postdoc Researcher (2006-2009) |
Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taipei Taiwan msc@gate.sinica.edu.tw |
Peter Maunz | Postdoc Researcher (2005-2009) |
Director, Systems Integration, IonQ, Albuquerque, NM maunz@ionq.com |
Steve Olmschenk | Graduate Student (2004-2009) |
Professor and Chair of Physics, Denison University olmschenks@denison.edu |
Andrew Chew | Undergrad Student (2006-2008) |
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Mark Acton | Grad Student (2003-2007) |
High School Science Teacher, Deerfield Academy macton@deerfield.edu |
Elizabeth (Otto) Hamel | Undergrad Student (2005-2007) |
PhD Graduate, Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA heo128@stanford.edu |
Dan Cook | Undergrad Student (2006-2007 |
Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan |
Yisa Rumala | Grad Student (2006-2007) |
Graduate Student, University of Michigan |
Kathy-Anne (Brickman) Soderberg | Grad Student (2002-2007) |
Senior Research Scientist Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome, NY kathy-anne.soderberg@us.af.mil |
David Moehring | Grad Student (2002-2007) |
General Partner, Cambium Capital moehring@cambium.vc |
Dan Stick | Grad Student (2002-2007) |
Senior Investigator, Sandia National Laboratories dlstick@sandia.gov |
Kelly (Younge) Paradis | Grad Student (2005-2007) |
Professor or Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI kyounge@umich.edu |
David Hucul | Grad Student (2003-2006) |
Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome NY david.hucul@afrl.af.mil |
Mark Yeo | Undergrad Student (2004-2006) |
Senior Atomic Clock Physicist, Mesa Quantum markyeo@gmail.com |
Martin Madsen | Grad Student (2001-2006) |
Senior Software Engineer and Physicist, Veda Inc., Fishers, Indiana madsen.mj@gmail.com |
Rudolph Kohn, Jr. | Undergrad Student (2003-2006) |
Space Dynamics Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM rudy.kohn@sdl.usu.edu |
Louis Deslauriers | Grad Student (2001-2006) |
Director of Science Teaching and Learning, Harvard University Dept. of Physics louis@physics.harvard.edu |
Patricia Lee | Grad Student (2000-2005) |
Chief Scientist, Quantinuum, Broomfield Patricia.Lee@quantinuum.com |
Paul Haljan | Postdoc Researcher (2003-2005) |
Associate Professor of Physics, Simon Fraser University phaljan@sfu.ca |
Winfried Hensinger | Postdoctoral Researcher (2002-2005) |
Professor, University of Sussex, Department of Physics W.K.Hensinger@sussex.ac.uk |
Boris Blinov | Postdoc Researcher (2001-2005) |
Professor, University of Washington Department of Physics blinov@uw.edu |
James Rabchuck | Visiting Professor (2003-2005) |
Professor of Physics and Dean, Western Illinois Univ. JA-Rabchuk@wiu.edu |
Russell Miller | UGrad Student (2001-2003) |
MIT Lincoln Laboratory |