Team
Principal Investigator
Alp Sipahigil
- Ping & Amy Chao Family Assistant Professor of EECS and Physics, UC Berkeley
- Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
- Director, Quantum Coherent Systems Program, Berkeley Lab
Postdocs
Graduate students
Lukasz Komza
Physics
Kadircan Godeneli
EECS
Hanbin Song
MSE
Enrique Garcia
EECS
Darius Vera
EECS
Ahmet Oguz Sakin
EECS
Tae Gyu Ahn
EECS
Hanson Nguyen
EECS
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Join us
We are always looking for talented and motivated researchers.
Undergraduate researchers
| Name | Department | Tenure | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nimisha Sivaraman | Engineering Physics | 2025–present | Superconducting qubits |
| Daniel Seungmin Lee | Physics & Math | 2026–present | Superconducting qubits |
| David Kim | Physics & CS | 2026–present | Superconducting qubits |
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Group alumni
Graduate students
| Name | Department | Tenure | Next position | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mutasem Odeh | EECS | 2021-2023 | Apple | Phonon-protected superconducting qubits |
Postdocs
| Name | Tenure | Next position |
|---|---|---|
| Haoxin Zhou | 2023-2026 | Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Zihuai Zhang | 2022-2026 | Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines |
| Hong Qiao | 2026 | Assistant Professor, Peking University |
| Mi Lei | 2024-2026 | Rigetti Computing |
| Leo Sementilli | 2025-2026 | Laboratory for Physical Sciences |
| Niccolo Fiaschi | 2024-2025 | Arq Quantum Technologies |
| Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang | 2023-2024 | Assistant Professor, Columbia University |
| Polnop Samutpraphoot | 2021-2022 | Apple |
Undergraduate students
| Name | Department | Tenure | Next position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Afradi | EECS | 2023-2026 | Graduate student at Princeton |
| Pragyan Pandey | Physics | 2024-2026 | Graduate student at Stanford |
| Sanjit Shirol | Physics | 2024-2026 | Graduate student at Harvard |
| Nikitha Chalgeri | Physics | 2024-2025 | Graduate student at Stanford |
| Justin He | Engineering Physics | 2023-2024 | Graduate student at Caltech |
| Rohin Tangirala | EECS | 2021-2023 | Graduate student at University of Washington |
| Binhan Hua | Physics | 2022-2023 | Graduate student at Harvard |
| Jiu Chang | Physics | 2022-2023 | Graduate student at Georgia Tech |
| Milena Mathew | EECS | 2021-2022 | OpenAI → Stanford |
| Eric Li | EECS | 2021-2022 | Graduate student at MIT |
Visiting students and summer interns
| Name | Home institution | Tenure | Next position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qiao Liu | Cornell | 2024-2025 | Graduate student at University of Washington |
| Magnus Madsen | Niels Bohr Institute | 2025 | Graduate student at NBI |
| Boris Müllendorff | TU Delft | 2023-2024 | Graduate student at TU Delft |
| Xin Wei | Peking University | 2023 | Graduate student at Stanford |
| Xudong Li | Peking University | 2022 | Graduate student at Harvard |
| Cynthia Duru | CSU East Bay | 2022 | CSU East Bay |
Visiting professors
| Name | Home institution | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| Myung-Ki Kim | Korea University | 2022-2023 |