Ph.D. Students

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).