People
Faculty
Zhongbo Kang
Professor
Principal Investigator
Office: Knudsen 5-114
Phone: 424-259-5848
Postdoctoral Scholars
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
- Curtis Zhou: global analysis, tensor network (Department REU Fellowship)
- Karlo Reyes: quantum computing
- Benjamin Jobilal: quantum machine learning (Department REU Fellowship, Bruce and Joan Winstein Award, APS DNP CEU Fellowship)
- Jeffrey Qu: global analysis, Bayesian inference
- Dibyesh Ganguly: global analysis, machine learning (UCLA Undergraduate Research Fellowship)
- Aayush Jain: quantum information (UCLA Sigma Pi Sigma Fellowship)
- Rushil Saraswat: AI for QCD (Department REU Fellowship)
Former Members
Postdocs/staff/visiting scholars
- Jani Penttala: Postdoctoral Scholar, joint with SURGE collaboration, 09/2023–08/2026, next: UPSaclay STAR φ Postdoctoral Fellowship at IJCLab, Université Paris-Saclay
- 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
- Maarten Buffing: Postdoctoral Scholar, 09/2017–08/2018, next: a model development & run specialist at Aegon in The Hague
- Felix Ringer: Postdoctoral Scholar, LANL, 2015–017, 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, Guangzhou
- Chuanqi He: Visiting scholar from SCNU, 08/2024–07/2025
- Meisen Gao: Visiting scholar from Fudan University, 07/2024–06/2025, next: a faculty member at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai
- 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, next: a postdoctoral scholar at Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham
- Wai Kin Lai: Visiting scholar from SCNU, 04/2022–03/2023
- Daniele Anderle: Visiting Scholar (remote) from SCNU, 08/2020–08/2022
Graduate students
- Carlos Lamas: 09/2025–12/2025, visiting graduate student from University of Santiago de Compostela
- Fidele Twagirayezu: 09/2022–03/2025, next: a lecturer at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Xoán Mayo López, 09/2024–12/2024, visiting graduate student from University of Santiago de Compostela, next: a postdoctoral fellow at MIT Center for Theoretical Physics
- 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, now a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory
Undergraduate students
- Brian Chang: 12/2024–09/2026, Department REU Fellowship, next: a graduate student at UCLA
- Congyue Zhang: 01/2023–07/2025, Department REU Fellowship, UCLA Undergraduate Research Fellowship, next: a graduate student at UCLA
- Peter Nguyen: 06/2022–07/2025, next: a graduate student at Duke University
- 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