People

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]

GROUP ALUMNI

OLD GROUP PHOTOS
12/201712/20166/2015 (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 VernonProfile photo for Adam Vernon

Postdoctoral Researcher
email: [adam.vernon@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:

Henry LuoHenry Luo - Postdoctoral Researcher - Duke University | LinkedIn

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 CadyRob Cady hiking

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 ShiHarriet Bufan Shi

Graduate Researcher
email: [jiujun.yu@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Lab phone:
Office:

Ian WildemannIan Wildemann - Doctoral Student - Duke University | LinkedIn

Graduate Researcher
email: [ian.wildemann@duke.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2105
Lab phone:
Office:

Saketha (Saki) MaleSaketha Male, UNC '26

Undergraduate Researcher
email: [sakim08@unc.edu]
Lab: Chesterfield 2109
Lab phone:
Office:

Siddarth (Sidd) VijaymuruganSiddharth Vijaymurugan - Student Coach - Mills Park Middle ...

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
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
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
manninga@illinois.edu

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)
, KLA
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