People

Faculty

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

 

Researcher

Andrew Larkoski
Assistant Project Scientist
Office: Knudsen 5-137
Email: larkoski@ucla.edu

 

 

Postdoctoral Scholars

Farid Salazar Wong
Joint with UC Berkeley / Berkeley Lab
Email: faridsalazar03@g.ucla.edu

 

 

Jani Penttala
Joint with SURGE collaboration
Office: Knudsen 5-105
Email: jani.penttala@gmail.com

 

Yiyu Zhou
Visiting from IQM of SCNU
Office: Knudsen 5-137
Email: zyiyu@m.scnu.edu.cn

 

Graduate Students

Jared Reiten
UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellow
Office: Knudsen 5-105

 

 

Fidele Twagirayezu
Office: Knudsen 5-105

 

 

Robert Kao
Office: Knudsen 5-105

 

 

 

Undergraduate Students

Former Members

  • Fanyi Zhao: Graduate Student, 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
  • Grace Garmire: Undergraduate Student, 02/2022 - 06/2023, CB-EIC scholar, next: a graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Tejes Gaertner: Undergraduate Student, 10/2021 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at University of Oxford
  • Sky Shi: Undergraduate Student, 11/2021 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at University of Michigan
  • Philip Velie: Undergraduate Student, UVA, 06/2022 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student with Fulbright fellowship at Heidelberg University
  • Miranda Li: Undergraduate Student, 05/2022 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at UCLA
  • Parth Bhatnagar: Undergraduate Student, 10/2020 - 02/2023, Department REU fellowship, next: a graduate student at Northwestern University
  • Jeisson Pulido: Undergraduate Student, 02/2022 - 01/2023, CB-EIC scholar, next: a graduate student at University of Southern California
  • Yuxuan Tee: Undergraduate Student, 11/2021 - 05/2023, next: a graduate student at Florida State University
  • 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
  • John Terry: Graduate Student, 03/2017 - 09/2022, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, next: a Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Amanda Wei: Undergraduate Student, 10/2018 - 07/2022, Department REU fellowship, next: a graduate student at Lund University
  • Jinghong Yang: Undergraduate Student, 10/2020 - 07/2022, UCLA Honors Summer Research Stipend, next: a graduate student at the University of Maryland
  • Mishary Alrashed: Undergraduate Student, 08/2020 - 07/2022, Department REU fellowship, Conference Experience for Undergraduates 2021 Award from APS, next: a graduate student at UCLA
  • Henry Ma: Undergraduate Student, 06/2021 - 06/2022, next: a graduate student at MIT
  • Nick Millkey: Undergraduate Student, 06/2021 - 08/2021, Department REU fellowship
  • Sasza Czajka: Undergraduate Student, 11/2020 - 08/2021, next: a graduate student at UCLA
  • Nanxi Yao: Undergraduate Student, 06/2020 - 08/2021, next: a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Ding Yu Shao: CFNS-University Fellow, 08/2019 - 01/2021, next: a faculty member at Fudan University, China
  • Daniel A. Callos: Undergraduate Student, 03/2018 - 10/2020, awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship, next: a Decision Analytics Associate at ZS Associates
  • Kyle Lee: Graduate Student, Stony Brook, 10/2016 - 08/2020, next: a postdoctoral scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Andrew Gordeev: Undergraduate Student, 11/2017 - 06/2019, awarded an Undergraduate Research Scholarship, next: a graduate student at Duke University
  • Bade Sayki, Undergraduate Student, 08/2018 - 07/2019, next: a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Maarten Buffing, Postdoctoral Scholar, 09/2017 - 08/2018, next: a model development & run specialist at Aegon in The Hague
  • Manvir Grewal: Undergraduate Student, 06/2017 - 07/2018, next: a graduate student at Columbia University
  • Felix Ringer: Postdoctoral Scholar, LANL, 2015 - 2017, next: a postdoctoral scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, now a faculty member at Old Dominion University and staff scientist at Jefferson Lab
  • 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