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Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2020.
Ph.D. Student
AQuA experiment. Joined in 2021.
Ph.D. Student
CLOC experiment. Joined in 2021.
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2023.
Ph.D. Student
AQUA experiment. Joined in 2024.
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.
Ph.D. Student
CLOC experiment. Joined in 2025.
Master's Student
AQUA experiment. Joined in 2024.
Master's Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.
Master's Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.
Master's Student
AQUA experiment. Joined in 2024.
Master's Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2025.
| Name | Years in Lab | Present position |
|---|---|---|
| Ravikumar Chinnarasu | 2021 - 2023 | National Quantum Computing Center, UK |
| Yunheung Song | 2021 - 2022 | Senior Researcher - Ultracold Atom Quantum Research Team, Quantum Technology Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science |
| Garrett Hickman | 2017 - 2020 | ColdQuanta, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Minho Kwon | 2019 | Senior Quantum Engineer - QuEra Computing, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Matt Ebert | 2017 - 2019 | IonQ, College Park, Maryland |
| Donald Booth | 2015 - 2018 | Senior Scientist, Quantum Valley Ideas Lab, Waterloo |
| Tian Xia | 2010-2015 | USTC, Hefei |
| Jonathan Pritchard | 2013-2015 | EPSRC Research Fellow Strathclyde, Scotland |
| Larry Isenhower | 2010-2014 | Assistant Professor, Abilene Christian University |
| Michal Piotrowicz | 2011-2014 | Naval Research Laboratory, Univ. Michigan |
| Michael Gibbons | 2011-2013 | |
| Xianli L. Zhang | 2010-2013 | Microsemi |
| Vladyslav Ivanov | 2011-2013 | Teradiode |
| Gang Li | 2010-2012 | Shanxi University |
| Marie Delaney | 2005-2006 | Precision Photonics, Boulder, Colorado |
| Deniz Yavuz | 2004-2006 | Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Pasad Kulatunga | 2003-2005 | International Horizons College, Dubai |
| Names | Degree Awarded | Thesis Title | Most Recent Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Scott | 2025 | Qubit Control with a Quadrupole-transition in Cs Atoms and Rydberg Gate Laser System Design | Infleqtion, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Gavin Chase | 2025 | Instructor - United States Military Academy | |
| Preston Huft | 2024 | Building blocks of an integrated neutral atom quantum network | Quantum Scientist - Quantum Systems at QuEra, Boston, MA |
| Juan Bohorquez | 2023 | Rydberg Physics in a Cryogenic System for Hybrid Quantum Interfaces | Senior Physicist, R&D at IonQ, Bothell, WA |
| Xiaoyu Jiang | 2022 | Progress Towards Quantum Computing with Neutral Atom Arrays | Huawei |
| Chris Young | 2022 | Progress towards Building a Quantum Network Node using Near-Concentric Resonant Cavities | |
| Chris Yip | 2021 | Optical Dipole Trapping, Narrow-Line Cooling, and Single Atom Observation of Holmium Atoms | |
| Minho Kwon | 2019 | Rydberg-mediated Atomic Ensemble Entanglement and Hyperfine Qubit Detection | QuEra Computing |
| Joshua Isaacs | 2017 | Hybrid Quantum Information with Atoms and Superconductors | postdoc UC Berkeley |
| James Hostetter | 2016 | Laser cooling, trapping and Rydberg spectroscopy of neutral holmium atoms | Honeywell |
| Martin Lichtman | 2015 | Coherent Operations, Entanglement, and Progress Toward Quantum Search in a Large 2D Array of Neutral Atom Qubits | Senior Quantum Physicist, Infleqtion |
| Kara Maller | 2015 | Single- and two-qubit operations on an atomic qubit array | Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute |
| Alex Carr | 2014 | Improving quantum computation with neutral Cesium: radout and cooling on a quadrupole line, conditions for double magic traps and a novel dissipative entanglement scheme | High finance |
| Alex Gill | 2014 | Progress towards deterministic generation of entangled W-states of neutral atoms using Rydberg blockade | Draper Labs |
| Jinlu Miao | 2013 | Laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of Holmium atoms | KLA Tencor |
| Siyuan Zhang | 2012 | Trapping and Rydberg excitation of a single atom qubit in a blue detuned bottle beam | Linked In |
| Larry Isenhower | >2010 | >Demonstration of Rydberg blockade, a neutral atom CNOT gate, and entanglement generation | Lecturer, Abilene Christian University |
| >Thomas Henage, M.Sc. | >2009 | >Real Time Data Collection and Management for an Atomic Quantum Computing Experiment (T.G. Walker lead advisor) | Private industry |
| Erich Urban | >2009 |
Coherent manipulation of single atom qubits using Rydberg states (T. G. Walker lead advisor) |
Medical Physics, UW Madison |
| Will Williams | 2009 |
Cold atom dynamics in linear and nonlinear optical potentials |
Assistant Profressor, Smith College |
| Todd Johnson | 2008 |
Rabi oscillations and excitation blockade between ground and Rydberg states of single optically trapped Rubidium atoms |
Assistant Professor, Saint John's University |
| Oo-Kaw Lim | 2006 |
Nonclassical correlations and entanglement in intracavity second harmonic generation |
Lightwaves 2020 |
| Yingxue Wang | 2005 |
Nonlinear self-focusing in cold cesium atoms |
Shell Oil, Houston, Texas |
| 2002 | Turbulence in Wendelstein 7-AS plasmas measured by collective light scattering | Siemens, Denmark | |
| Morten Bache | 2002 | Quantum noise and spatio-temporal pattern formation in nonlinear optics | Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark |
|
Peter Lodahl |
2000 | Spatio-temporal structures in cavity enhanced γ (2) frequency conversion processes | Professor, Niels Bohr Institute |
|
Nicholas P. Heinemeier, (M. Sc.) |
1998 | Flow speed measurement using two-point collective light scattering | NNIT, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Names | Experiment/Project | Years | Most Recent Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Farenci | Network experiment | 2023 | ?? |
| Manish Chowdary | Network experiment, AQUA | 2022-2023 | ?? |
| Name | Years in Lab |
|---|---|
| Isaac Scott | 2023-2025 |
| Kais Jooya | 2020-2023 |
| Sam Cieszynski | 2019-2020 |
| Laura Fleming | 2014-2019 |
| Name | School | Years in Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Scott | CU - Boulder (Undergrad) | Summer 2022 |
| Danny Wendt | Caltech (Undergrad) | Summer 2021, Summer 2022 |
| Peiyu Yang | PhD student (Rb experiment) | 2019-2020 |
| Name | Years in Lab | Present Position |
|---|---|---|
| Quinn Meece | 2023-2025 | PhD student at Temple University |
| Michael Bergdolt | 2019 - 2022 | Physicist, Infleqtion -> PhD studet, Duke University (philosophy) |
| Arian Noori | 2021 - 2023 | ECE Masters program UW-Madison ->Quantum Hardware Engineer, IBM |
| Patrick Eichler | 2020 - 2023 | unknown |
| Max Freeman | Summer 2023 | PhD student, Caltech |
| Michael Bergdolt | 2019-2022 | ColdQuanta, Madison |
| Brandon Cortez | 2020 - 2021 | UW - Madison ECE PhD Program |
| Genevieve (Kearns) Augelli | 2018 - 2019 | DRS Daylight Solutions |
| Morgan Turville-Heitz | 2017 - 2019 | UW - Madison ECE PhD Program |
| Huaxia Zhou | 2017 - 2019 | |
| Alphonse Marra | 2017 - 2019 | University of Central Flordia |
| Sebastian Malewicz | 2017 - 2019 | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Jack Gage | 2017 - 2018 | |
| Brandon Radzom | 2017 - 2019 | |
| Lexie Wang | 2017 - 2019 | |
| Jacob Fronberry | 2016 - 2017 | |
| Sydney Lybert | 2015 - 2017 | Arizona |
| Jost Cherek | 2015 - 2016 | |
| William Milner | 2014 - 2017 | JILA, UC Boulder, Ye group |
| Kelly Hope | 2014 - 2015 | |
| Eric Myers | 2014 - 2015 | |
| Ayah Almousa | 2012 - 2013 | |
| Jake Skebba | 2012 | |
| Colton Marti | 2012 | |
| Joe Kowalski | 2010-2012 | Hearndon HEP group, Madison |
| Antoine Martin | 2009-2012 | Physics grad student, Purdue |
| Jacob Brian Swan | 2009 | Heeger group, Madison |
| Benjamin Broerman | 2009-2011 | Ice Cube, Madison |
| Thomas Noel | 2008 - 2009 | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Adam Beardsley | 2008 - 2009 | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Jon Sedlacek | 2008 - 2009 | University of Oklahoma |
| Jake Covey | 2008 - 2011 | Jun Ye group, JILA, UC Boulder -> Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign |
| Kevin Christie | 2007 - 2008 | University of Minnesota |
| Stephan Neal | 2006 - 2008 | Epix Systems, History of Science UW Madison |
| Benjamin Spike | 2006 - 2008 | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Nicholas Proite | 2004 - 2005 | UW-Madison, Alfalight |
| Andy Ruland | 2002 - 2003 | University of Texas, Austin |
| Name | Years in Lab | College |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Wagner | 2021 - 2023 | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Benjamin Kufel | 2017 - 2019 | University of Wisconsin - Madison |