Team

PI: 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

Zihuai Zhang
Haoxin Zhou
Mi Lei
Leo Sementilli
Nicholas Yama

Graduate students

Lukasz Komza, Physics
Kadircan Godeneli, EECS
Hanbin Song, MSE
Kangdi Yu, EECS
Enrique
Enrique Garcia, EECS
Darius Vera, EECS
Xiaoya Chen, EECS
Ahmet Oguz Sakin, EECS
Tae Gyu Ahn, EECS

Open positions: We are always looking for talented and motivated researchers to join our team!
Please see open positions for details and how to apply.

Undergraduate researchers

NameDepartmentTenureTopic
Cameron Afradi EECS2023-Quantum photonics
Pragyan PandeyPhysics2024-Quantum electromechanics
Sanjit ShirolEngineering Physics2024-Nanomechanical systems
Nimisha SivaramanEngineering Physics2025-Superconducting circuits

Group Photos

  • Summer 2024: Lukasz Komza, Hanbin Song, Niccolo Fiaschi, Sherry Zhang, Mi Lei, Pragyan Pandey, Kadircan Godeneli, Kerry Yu, Shahin Jahanbani, Zihuai Zhang
  • Spring ’24 BBQ: Zihuai, Haoxin, Shahin, Hanbin, Lukasz, Alp, Mi, Boris, Sherry, Justin
  • Fall 2023. Front Row: Wendy Chen (Left), Yiyang Zhi, Sherry Zhang, Alp Sipahigil, Hanbin Song, Kadircan Godeneli, Shahin Jahanbani. Back Row: Wei-Yu Lin, Mutasem Odeh, Yu-Lung Tang, Zihuai Zhang, Lukasz Komza, Haoxin Zhou.
  • Fall 2022. Front Row: Auden Young (Left), Kadircan Godeneli, Alp Sipahigil, Binhan Hua, Jiu Chang, Hanbin Song. Back Row: Milena Mathew, Rohin Tangirala, Lukasz Komza, Yu-Lung Tang, Vector Wang. Not pictured: Mutasem Odeh, Andrew Kim, Myung-Ki Kim.

Group Alumni

Graduate students

NameDepartmentTenure Next positionThesis
Mutasem OdehEECS2021-2023Photonics engineer at ApplePhonon-protected superconducting qubits

Postdocs

NameTenure Next position
Niccolo Fiaschi2024-2025
Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang2023-2024Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Polnop Samutpraphoot2021-2022Photonics engineer at Apple

Undergraduate students

NameDepartmentTenureNext position
Nikitha ChalgeriPhysics2024-2025Graduate Student at Stanford
Justin HeEngineering Physics2023-2024Graduate student at Caltech
Rohin TangiralaEECS2021-2023Graduate Student at University of Washington
Binhan HuaPhysics2022-2023Graduate Student at Harvard
Jiu ChangPhysics2022-2023Graduate Student at Georgia Tech
Milena MatthewEECS2021-2022OpenAI -> Stanford
Eric LiEECS2021-2022Graduate student at MIT

Visiting students and summer interns

NameHome InstitutionTenureLast known position
Qiao LiuCornell2024-2025Graduate student at University of Washington
Magnus MadsenNiels Bohr Institute2025Graduate Student at NBI
Boris MullendorfTU Delft2023-2024Graduate student TU Delft
Xin WeiPeking University2023Graduate student at Stanford
Xudong LiPeking University2022Graduate Student at Harvard
Cynthia DuruCSU East Bay2022CSU East Bay

Visiting Professors

NameHome InstitutionTenure
Prof. Myung-Ki KimKorea University2023-2024