Openings
Postdoctoral Scholar:
The search for a Postdoctoral Scholar during the cycle of 2024-2025 is now concluded. If you are interested in our group, please check this website again around August, 2025
Graduate students:
Our research group primarily focuses on the interplay between numerical methods and quantum sciences.
For graduate students students with strong interests and backgrounds in this direction, please get in touch with me via e-mail or office hours.
Please send/bring (i) an up-to-date CV, (ii) a transcript
highlighting your background in numerical analysis,
algorithms, and quantum physics and (iii) a brief description of
your research interest, and how it may connect to my
current research directions.
Unfortunately, there are currently no internship positions available for undergraduate students.
Current group members
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Joao Basso | PhD student (co-mentored with Nikhil Srivastava) |
| Zherui Chen | PhD student |
| Zhiyan Ding | Morrey Assistant Professor |
| Sergio Escobar | PhD student |
| Gil Goldshlager | PhD student |
| Zhen Huang | PhD student |
| James Larsen | DOE CSGF Fellow Internship (2025 Summer) |
| Raehyun Kim | PhD student |
| Jiang Hu | Postdoctoral scholar |
| Jiaqi Leng | Simons Quantum postdoctoral scholar (co-mentored with Umesh Vazirani) |
| Juan Diego Fernandez Pottecher | PhD student (Chemistry, co-mentored with Martin Head-Gordon) |
| Jeffrey Ren | Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) (2025 Summer) |
| Stephen Quinton | PhD student (Chemistry, co-mentored with Martin Head-Gordon) |
| Michael Ragone | Morrey Assistant Professor |
| Rahul Sarkar | Postdoctoral scholar |
| Avijit Shee | Postdoctoral scholar (Chemistry, co-mentored with Martin Head-Gordon and Birgitta Whaley) |
| Kevin Stubbs | Postdoctoral scholar |
| Ruizhe Zhang | Simons Quantum postdoctoral scholar (co-mentored with Umesh Vazirani) |
Gone but not forgotten
| Name | Then | After/Now |
|---|---|---|
| Nilin Abrahamsen | Simons Quantum postdoctoral scholar, (2021--2024) (co-mentored with Umesh Vazirani) |
Voleon |
| Dong An | PhD student (Graduated in 2021) | Hartree postdoctoral fellow, U Maryland / Assistant Professor, Peking University (Mathematics, BICMR) |
| Amartya Banerjee | Postdoctoral scholar (2015-2018, co-mentored with Chao Yang) |
Assistant Professor, UCLA (Materials Science) |
| Mo Chen | Undergraduate student (2018-2019) | PhD student, MIT |
| Anil Damle | NSF postdoctoral scholar, (2016-2017) | Assistant Professor Cornell University (Computer Science) |
| Yulong Dong | PhD student (Graduated in 2023) (co-mentored with Birgitta Whaley) |
Bytedance |
| Ethan Epperly | DOE CSGF Fellow Internship (2021 Summer) | |
| Di Fang | Morrey Assistant Professor (2019-2022) Simons Quantum postdoctoral scholar (2022-2023) (co-mentored with Umesh Vazirani) |
Assistant Professor, Duke University (Mathematics) |
| Fabian Faulstich | Postdoctoral scholar (2020-2023) | Assistant Professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) (Applied Mathematics) |
| Hans Gundlach | Undergraduate student (2020-2021) | Master student, Cambridge |
| Wei Hu | Postdoctoral scholar (2014-2017, co-mentored with Chao Yang) |
Professor University of Science and Technology of China (Chemistry) |
| Weile Jia | Postdoctoral scholar (2016-2020) | Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Computer Science) |
| Jason Kaye | Undergraduate student (2013-2014, co-mentored with Chao Yang) |
PhD student, Courant Institute/ Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute |
| Paul Kottering | Undergraduate student (2020-2021) | Master student, Courant Institute |
| Choco Tianyue Li | Undergraduate student (2021-2022) | PhD student, U Michigan |
| Haoen Li | Undergraduate student, Tsinghua (2024 summer) | |
| Jeffmin Lin | PhD student (Graduated in 2021) | Calico |
| Michael Lindsey | PhD student (Graduated in 2019) | NSF postdoctoral scholar, Courant Institute / Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley (Mathematics) |
| Jin-Peng Liu | Simons Quantum postdoctoral scholar (2022-2023) (co-mentored with Umesh Vazirani) |
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT / Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University (Mathematics, YMSC) |
| Xiang Meng | Undergraduate student (2019 Fall) | PhD student, MIT |
| Subhayan Roy Moulik | Postdoctoral scholar (2021-2023) | Research Fellow, Cambridge University |
| Hongkang Ni | Undergraduate student (2021 Summer) | PhD student, Stanford |
| Xun Tang | Undergraduate student (2018-2019) | PhD student, Stanford |
| Yu Tong | PhD student (Graduated in 2022) | IQIM postdoctoral fellow, Caltech / Assistant Professor, Duke University (Mathematics and ECE) |
| Pranav Vaidhyanathan | Undergraduate student (2020-2021) | PhD student, Oxford |
| Jiasu Wang | PhD student (Graduated 2024) | Vatic Labs |
| Hamlin Wu | Undergraduate student (2023-2024) (Chemistry, co-mentored with Martin Head-Gordon) |
PhD student, Harvard |
| Xiaojie Wu | Postdoctoral scholar (2018-2020) | Amobee |
| Jin Xie | Undergraduate student, (2015 Summer) | PhD student, Stanford |
| Xin Xing | Postdoctoral scholar (2020-2023) | Apple |
| Ze Xu | PhD student (Graduated in 2019) | Two Sigma |
| Leonardo Zepeda-Nunez | Postdoctoral scholar, (2017-2019) | Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison (Mathematics) / Google |
| Jiahao Yao | PhD student (Graduated in 2023) | Citadel |
| Xinzhao Wang | Visiting student (2024-2025, Computer Science, Peking University) | |
| Jiefu Zhang | PhD student (Graduated in 2021) | |
| Hongli Zhao | Undergraduate student, (2020 Summer) | PhD student, U Chicago |
| Tiangang Zhou | Undergraduate student, (2019 Summer) | PhD student, Tsinghua University |
| Yuanran Zhu | Postdoctoral scholar (LBNL, co-mentored with Chao Yang) |
Research Scientist, LBNL |
| Qinyi Zhu | PhD student (Graduated in 2023) |