People

Faculty

Zhongbo Kang Zhongbo Kang
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator
Office: Knudsen 5-114
Phone: 424-259-5848

Postdoctoral Scholars

Jani Penttala

Jani Penttala
Joint with SURGE collaboration
Office: Knudsen 5-105
Email: janipenttala@physics.ucla.edu

 

Meisen Gao

Meisen Gao
Visiting from Fudan University
Office: Knudsen 5-137
Email: msgao@ucla.edu

 

Chuanqi He

Chuanqi He
Visiting from South China Normal U
Office: Knudsen 5-137
Email: legend0he@g.ucla.edu

 

Graduate Students

Fidele Twagirayezu

Fidele Twagirayezu
Office: Knudsen 5-105
Email: fjtwagirayezu@physics.ucla.edu

 

Robert Kao

Robert Kao
Office: Knudsen 5-105
Email: rqk@g.ucla.edu
 

 

Luke Sellers

Luke Sellers
Office: Knudsen 5-137
Email: lsellers1@g.ucla.edu

 

Diego Padilla

Diego Padilla
Office: Knudsen 5-137
Email: dpadi022@g.ucla.edu

 

Noah Moran

Noah Moran
Office: Knudsen 5-105
Email: chucknoah@g.ucla.edu

 

Master Students

Harry Wang

Harry Wang
Email: haochenwang@g.ucla.edu

 

 

Undergraduate Students

Former Members

Postdocs/staff/visiting scholars

  • Andrew Larkoski: Assistant Project Scientist, 09/2022 - 09/2023, next: Associate Editor at Physical Review D
  • Farid Salazar: Postdoctoral Scholar, joint with UC Berkeley / Berkeley Lab, 10/2021 - 11/2023, next: Research Assistant Professor at the Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington, Seattle, now a faculty member at Temple University
  • Ding Yu Shao: CFNS-University Fellow, 08/2019 - 01/2021, next: a faculty member at Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • Maarten Buffing: Postdoctoral Scholar, 09/2017 - 08/2018, next: a model development & run specialist at Aegon in The Hague
  • Felix Ringer: Postdoctoral Scholar, LANL, 2015 - 2017, next: a postdoctoral scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now a faculty member at Stony Brook University
  • Hongxi Xing: Postdoctoral Scholar, LANL, 2013 - 2016, next: a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University/Argonne National Laboratory, now a faculty member at South China Normal University
  • Yiyu Zhou: Visiting scholar from SCNU, 12/2022 - 02/2024, next: a postdoctoral scholar at University of Turin, Italy
  • Kajal Samanta: Visiting scholar from Fudan University, 08/2022 - 03/2023
  • Wai Kin Lai: Visiting scholar from SCNU, 04/2022 - 03/2023
  • Daniele Anderle: Visiting Scholar (remote) from SCNU, 08/2020 - 08/2022

Graduate students

  • Jared Reiten: 07/2017 - 12/2023, UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellow, next: Industry
  • Fanyi Zhao: 01/2019 - 08/2023, Bhaumik Institute Nina Byers Summer Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, Graduate fellowship in quantum information science, next: a postdoctoral fellow at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
  • John Terry: 03/2017 - 09/2022, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, next: a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Kyle Lee: Stony Brook, 10/2016 - 08/2020, next: a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Undergraduate students

  • Nihal Gozlukluoglukarakus: CSU Northridge, 06/2023 - 09/2024, particle simulation, CB-EIC scholar
  • Rares Fota: 01/2023 - 03/2024, Department REU fellowship, next: a graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Juri Alhuthali: 06/2023 - 02/2024, KAUST Gifted Student Program
  • Ahmad Mardini: CSU Long Beach, 03/2023 - 12/2023, CB-EIC scholar
  • Grace Garmire: Cal Poly SLO, 02/2022 - 06/2023, CB-EIC scholar, next: a graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Tejes Gaertner: 10/2021 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at University of Oxford
  • Sky Shi: 11/2021 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at University of Michigan
  • Philip Velie: UVA, 06/2022 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student with Fulbright fellowship at Heidelberg University
  • Miranda Li: 05/2022 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at UCLA
  • Parth Bhatnagar: 10/2020 - 02/2023, Department REU fellowship, next: a graduate student at Northwestern University
  • Jeisson Pulido: CSU Dominguez Hills, 02/2022 - 01/2023, CB-EIC scholar, next: a graduate student at University of Southern California
  • Yuxuan Tee: 11/2021 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at Florida State University
  • Amanda Wei: 10/2018 - 07/2022, Department REU fellowship, next: a graduate student at Lund University
  • Jinghong Yang: 10/2020 - 07/2022, UCLA Honors Summer Research Stipend, next: a graduate student at the University of Maryland
  • Mishary Alrashed: 08/2020 - 07/2022, Department REU fellowship, Conference Experience for Undergraduates 2021 Award from APS, next: a graduate student at UCLA
  • Henry Ma: 06/2021 - 06/2022, next: a graduate student at MIT
  • Nick Millkey: 06/2021 - 08/2021, Department REU fellowship
  • Sasza Czajka: 11/2020 - 08/2021, next: a graduate student at UCLA
  • Nanxi Yao: 06/2020 - 08/2021, next: a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Daniel Callos: 03/2018 - 10/2020, awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship, next: a Decision Analytics Associate at ZS Associates
  • Andrew Gordeev: 11/2017 - 06/2019, awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship, next: a graduate student at Duke University
  • Bade Sayki: 08/2018 - 07/2019, next: a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Manvir Grewal: 06/2017 - 07/2018, next: a graduate student at Columbia University