John Preskill

Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics
Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy
California Institute of Technology

Former Ph.D. students:
1. Peter Galison (1983) -- Harvard University
2. Brian Hatfield (1985) -- Applied Mathematical Physics Research, Inc.
3. Ian Angus (1986) -- Terabeam Networks
4. Milan Mijic (1987) -- California State University Los Angeles
5. Alexios Polychronakos (1987) -- CUNY
6. George Siopsis (1987) -- University of Tennessee at Knoxville
7. Brian Warr (1987) -- deceased
8. Jim Cline (1988) -- McGill University
9. Elias Kiritsis (1988) – Ecole Polytechnique
10. Ji-yu Feng (1989)
11. Martin Bucher (1990) -- CNRS
12. Olivier Espinosa (1990) -- Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Valparaiso, Chile)
13. Sandip Trivedi (1990) -- Tata Institute
14. Alex Ridgway (1992) -- Sun Microsystems
15. John Apostolakis (1993) -- CERN
16. Robert Navin (1993) -- Real Time Risk Systems
17. Kai-Ming Lee (1994) -- University of Hong Kong
18. Hoi-Kwong Lo (1994) – National University of Singapore
19. Piljin Yi (1994) -- Korean Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
20. Patrick McGraw (1996) -- University of Toronto
21. Kent Bradford(1997) -- The Aerospace Corporation
22. Daniel Gottesman (1997) -- University of Maryland
23. Anton Kapustin (1997) -- California Institute of Technology
24. Jaemo Park (1997) -- Pohang University of Science and Technology
25. Eric Westphal (1998) -- Koch Industries, Inc.
26. Dave Beckman (2004) -- Toyon Research Corporation
27. Bob Gingrich (2001) – Western Asset Management
28. Andrew Landahl (2002) – Sandia National Laboratories
29. Eugene Pivovarov (2002) -- Rice University
30. Federico Spedalieri (2003) – UCLA
31. Sumit Daftuar (2003) – Goldman Sachs
32. John Cortese (2003) – Lincoln Laboratory
33. Charlene Ahn (2004) – Toyon Research Corporation
34. Jim Harrington (2004) – HRL Laboratories
35. Carlos Mochon (2005) – DE Shaw & Co
36. Anura Abeyesinghe (2006) – UCLA Anderson School of Management
37. Graeme Smith (2006) – University of Waterloo
38. Ben Toner (2006) – BQP Solutions
39. Panos Aliferis (2007) – Capital Fund Management (CFM), Paris
40. Parsa Bonderson (2007) – Microsoft Station Q
41. Mike Zwolak (2007) – National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
42. Kovid Goyal (2009) – Calibre ebook management
43. Greg Ver Steeg (2009) – Information Sciences Institute, USC
44. Hui Khoon Ng (2010) – Yale-NUS College (YNC) and Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore
45. Ersen Bilgin (2011) – Goldman Sachs, New York
46. Prabha Mandayam (2011) – Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
47. Peter Brooks (2013) – Google
48. Jeongwan Haah (2013) – Stanford University
49. Isaac Kim (2013) – University of California at Davis
50. Michael Beverland (2016) – IBM
51. Aleksander Kubica (2017) – Yale University
52. Sujeet Shukla (2017) – Amazon
53. Matt Fishman (2018) – Flatiron Institute
54. Nick Hunter-Jones (2018) – University of Texas at Austin
55. Anna Komar (2018) -- Neiman Marcus Group
56. Shaun Maguire (2018) – Sequoia Capital
57. Nicole Yunger Halpern (2018) – NIST and University of Maryland
58. Joe Iverson (2020) – Amazon Web Services
59. Junyu Liu (2021) – University of Pittsburgh
60. Eugene Tang (2021) – Northeastern University
61. Tian Wang (2023) – NTT
62. Robert Huang (2023) – California Institute of Technology
63. Bailey Gu (2024) – Yale University
64. Christopher Pattison – University of California at Berkeley

Current graduate students:
Abishek Anand
Bora Basyildiz
Laura Cui
Isabel Franco Garrido
Kyle Gulshen
Zachary Mann
Dariel Mok
Daniel Murphy
Saleh Naghdi
Preksha Naik
Yongtao Zhan
Haimeng Zhao

Scientific ancestry:

My advisor was Steve Weinberg, whose advisor was Sam Treiman,whose advisors were John Simpson (officially) and Enrico Fermi (unofficially).

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