People
Research group
Students, postdoctoral researchers, and alumni.
Postdocs:
Junyi Liu (2023-)
Liyi Li (co-advised with Mike Hicks, 2020 - 2023. Assistant professor at Iowa State University.)
Xiong Fan (co-advised with Jonathan Katz, 2020 - 2021. Assistant professor at Rutgers University. )
Robert Rand (co-advised with Mike Hicks, 2018-2020. Assistant professor at University of Chicago.)
QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellows (who I have closely worked with): Penghui Yao (now Professor at Nanjing University), Xin Wang (now Associate Professor at HKUST(Guangzhou)), Cedric Lin (now at AWS Braket).
Current Students:
(Ph.D.) Ethan Hickman, Yingkang Cao, Yi Lee, Connor Clayton, Joseph Li, Suying Liu, Haohai Shi, Gengzhi Yang, Kecheng Liu, Mattias Ehatamn (co-advised with Runzhou Tao), Guangyi Li, Richard Yu, Jonathan Hong, Kevin Ye (co-advised with Runzhou Tao)
Past Students:
Yufan Zheng (2026), Ph.D. thesis on Quantum Advantage via Physics-Inspired Methods in Optimization: Empirical and Theoretical Analysis. First Job: Visa Research.
Haowei Deng (2020-2025), Ph.D. thesis on Program Synthesis for Quantum Applications. First Job: Google.
Yuxiang Peng (2019-2024), Ph.D. thesis on Theoretical and Practical High-Assurance Software Tools for Quantum Applications. Winner of the Larry S. Davis Dissertation Award! First Job: Assistant Professor at Purdue University.
Jiaqi Leng (2019-2024), Ph.D. thesis on Quantum Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization: Theory and Implementation. First Job: Simons Quantum Postdoctoral Fellow at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley.
Xuchen You (2017-2023), Ph.D. thesis on Optimization Problems in Quantum Machine Learning. First job: Citadel Securities.
Shouvanik Chakrabarti (2017-2022), Ph.D. thesis on Quantum Computing for Optimization and Machine Learning. First job: VP - Applied Research Lead in the Quantum Research Team at J.P. Morgan Chase.