Students

Ph.D. Students

• Jinwu Ye, Great Bay University, Guangdong, China
  Thesis: Some Examples of Quantum Phase Transitions
• T. Senthil, Professor, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  Thesis: Quantum Phase Transitions in Random Spin Systems
• Kedar Damle, Professor, Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.
  Thesis: Turning on the Heat: Non-zero Temperature Dynamical Properties of Quantum Many-body Systems
• Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Architect, Oracle.
  Thesis: Dynamical Properties of Quantum Antiferromagnets in One and Two Dimensions
• Ying Zhang, Portfolio Manager at Millennium, London.
  Thesis: Competing Orders in the Cuprate Superconductors
• Anatoli Polkovnikov, Professor of Physics, Boston University.
  Thesis: Manifestation of Quantum Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems
• Stephen Powell, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham 
  Thesis: Quantum phases and transitions of many-body systems realized using cold atomic gases
• Adrian Del Maestro, Professor, University of Tennessee
  Thesis: The superconductor-metal quantum phase transition in ultra-narrow wires
• Emily Dunkel (with David Coker, Boston University), NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  Thesis: Quantum Phenomena in Condensed Phase Systems
• Yang Qi, Researcher, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai
  Thesis: Spin and Charge Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Systems.
• Rudro Rana Biswas, Actuarial Analyst II, Lincoln Financial Group 
  Thesis: Explorations in Dirac Fermions and Spin Liquids.
• Eun Gook Moon, Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 
  Thesis: Superfluidity in Strongly Correlated Systems
• Max Metlitski, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Thesis: Aspects of Critical Behavior of Two Dimensional Electron Systems
• Yejin Huh, Founding AI Scientist at Stealth
  Thesis: Quantum Phase Transitions in d-wave Superconductors and Antiferromagnetic Kagome Lattices
• Susanne Pielawa, Algorithm Developer, BMW Group
  Thesis: Metastable Phases and Dynamics of Low-Dimensional Strongly-Correlated Atomic Quantum Gases
• Debanjan Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
  Thesis: Interplay of Broken Symmetries and Quantum Criticality in Correlated Electronic Systems
• Junhyun Lee, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Maryland
  Thesis: Novel quantum phase transitions in low-dimensional systems
• Andrew Lucas, Associate Professor, University of Colorado
  Thesis: Transport and hydrodynamics in holography, strange metals and graphene
• Shubhayu Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  Thesis: Transport and symmetry breaking in strongly correlated systems with topological order
• Wenbo Fu, Data Scientist, Med Data Quest, Cambridge MA
  Thesis: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and matter without quasiparticles
• Seth Whitsitt, Senior Principal Transformational Quantum Physicist, Northrop Grumman
  Thesis: Universal non-local observables at interacting quantum critical points
• Alex Thomson, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
  Thesis: Emergent gapless fermions in strongly-correlated phases of matter and quantum critical points
• Aavishkar Patel, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute 
  Thesis: Transport, criticality, and chaos in fermionic quantum matter at nonzero density
• Julia Steinberg, Quantitative Researcher at Radix Trading
  Thesis: Universal Aspects of Quantum-Critical Dynamics In and Out of Equilibrium
• Rhine Samajdar, Princeton University
  Thesis: Topological and symmetry-breaking phases of strongly correlated systems: From quantum materials to ultracold atoms
• Haoyu Guo, Cornell University
  Thesis: Novel Transport Phenomena in Quantum Matter
• Leyna Shackleton, Pappalardo Fellow, MIT
  Thesis: Fractionalization and disorder in quantum many-body systems
• Chenyuan Li, Academy of Fellows, Rice University
  Thesis: Quantum Criticality and Superconductivity in Systems Without Quasiparticles
• Yanting Teng, Scientist, Laboratory of Quantum Information and Computation, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  Thesis: Exploring Topological Phases in Quantum Many-Body Physics
• Maria Tikhanovskaya, Research Fellow, Allen Institute & University of Washington
  Thesis: Disorder in quantum many-body physics: from strange metal to spin glass systems
• Maine Christos, AWS Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Theoretical Physics, Caltech
  Thesis: Criticality, fractionalization, and superconductivity in two-dimensional quantum materials
• Alexander Nikolaenko, Harvard University
• Serhii Kryhin, Harvard University