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Meet the QPAL Team

Mark Saffman

Principal Investigator

Founded research group in 1999.

Trent Graham

Scientist

AQuA experiment. Joined in 2016.

Akbar Safari

Scientist

SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2021

Ravikumar Chinnarasu

Postdoc

AQuA experiment. Joined in 2021.

Preston Huft

Ph.D. Student

SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2018.

Eunji Oh

Ph.D. Student

SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2020.

Sam Norrell

Ph.D. Student

AQuA and Rb-Cs experiment. Joined in 2021

Cody Poole

Ph.D. Student

AQuA experiment. Joined in 2017.

Jacob "JaQob" Scott

Ph.D. Student

CLOC/AQuA experiment. Joined in 2020.

Linipun Phuttitarn

Ph.D. Student

AQuA experiment. Joined in 2021.

Hong Ming Lim

Ph.D. Student

CLOC experiment. Joined in 2021.

Quinn Meece

Undergraduate student

CLOC experiment. Joined in 2021.

Isaac "IsaaQ" Scott

Research Assistant

Joined in 2023.

Omar Nagib

Ph.D. Student

SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2023.

Jenny Yan

Undergraduate Student

AQUA experiment. Joined in 2023.

Gavin Chase

Ph.D. Student

SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2023.

Jake Uribe

Masters Student

SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.

Uday Singla

Ph.D. Student

AQUA experiment. Joined in 2024.

Jihwan Moon

Ph.D. Student

SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.

Former Researchers

Name Years in Lab Present position
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
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 postdoc, Monroe group, JQI
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

Nils P. Basse

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
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
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