Ping & Amy Chao Family Assistant Professor of EECS and Physics, UC Berkeley
Faculty Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
Program Lead, Quantum Coherent Systems, Berkeley Lab
Postdocs
Co-advisor: Feng Wang
Graduate students
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
| Name | Department | Tenure | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nimisha Sivaraman | Engineering Physics | 2025- | Superconducting circuits |
Group Photos
Spring 2026. Left (Front) Mireya, Nimisha, Xiaoya, Hanbin, Cameron, Pragyan, Alp, Nick, Darius, Ahmet. Right (Back) Yuxiao, Enrique, Kadircan, Kerry, Hong, Haoxin, Zihuai, Lukasz, Leo (Front) 
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
| 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 | |
| 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 Matthew | EECS | 2021-2022 | OpenAI -> Stanford |
| Eric Li | EECS | 2021-2022 | Graduate student at MIT |
Visiting students and summer interns
| Name | Home Institution | Tenure | Last known position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qiao Liu | Cornell | 2024-2025 | Graduate student at University of Washington |
| Magnus Madsen | Niels Bohr Institute | 2025 | Graduate Student at NBI |
| Boris Mullendorf | TU Delft | 2023-2024 | Graduate student 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Myung-Ki Kim | Korea University | 2023-2024 |