Brief CV

Research Interests

Conceptual theory of collective quantum matter; bridging conceptual theory with experiments on quantum information platforms and quantum materials. Discovering new types of emergent behavior for many entangled quantum objects using analytics and tailored numerics.

Selected topics of accomplishment: RG scaling of entangled bonds in random quantum spin systems, relation to observed data collapse (1T-TaS₂, H₃LiIr₂O₆, herbertsmithite, LiZn₂Mo₃O₈, YbMgGaO₄); Dualities in quantum Hall bilayers (v=½+½); Topological quantum oscillations in semimetals (Cd₃As₂); Spatial symmetries and featureless Mott insulators (inc. on half-filled graphene lattice); Strong spin-orbit-coupling and Kitaev spin liquid / toric code candidates (α,β,γ-Li₂IrO₃, α-RuCl₃).

Education

2015 Ph.D. in Physics University of California, Berkeley

Advisor: Ashvin Vishwanath

2008 S.B. in Mathematics and S.B. in Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Positions

2021--ongoing Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech School of Physics

2018-2020 NIST NRC Fellow, JILA, NIST and CU Boulder

2018-2019 Junior Fellow in Theory of Quantum Matter University of Colorado, Boulder

2015-2018 MIT Pappalardo Fellow in Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2009-2015 Graduate Student Researcher University of California, Berkeley

2009-2014 Graduate Student Instructor University of California, Berkeley

Fellowships and Awards

2018 National Research Council Fellowship Natl Institute Standards & Technology

2015 MIT Pappalardo Fellowship in Physics MIT Department of Physics

2014 Jackson C. Koo Award in Condensed Matter UC Berkeley Department of Physics

2012 KITP Graduate Fellow Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

2009-2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2006 MIT Burchard Scholar in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Some Recent Talks (note: not regularly updated)

Invited Conference Talks

Mar 2019 Non-Equilibrium Quantum Snapshots 2019, CUNY Graduate Center

Feb 2019 New Approaches to Strongly Correlated Q. Systems, Aspen Center for Physics

Sept 2018 Quantum Magnetism, Kavli Inst. Theoretical Sciences and IOP-CAS, Beijing, China

June 2018 Symmetry and Topology, University of Tokyo, Japan

Apr 2018 Complex Quantum Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Aug 2017 Topological Properties in Quantum Magnets. Budapest, Hungary

June 2017 Synergy and Innovation in Quantum Materials, Berkeley

Feb 2017 Theory of Correlated Topological Materials, ISSP, Tokyo, Japan

Mar 2016 Invited Session on Kitaev Spin Liquid Physics, APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore

Feb 2016 Topological Phenomena in Novel Quantum Materials, MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany

Conference Presentations

July 2019 Quantum Spin Liquids, Aspen Center for Physics

June 2019 Ergodicity Breaking in Quantum Physics, GGI, Florence, Italy

July 2018 Topological Phases and Excitations in Q. Matter, Aspen Center for Physics

Nov 2017 Novel Quantum States in Condensed Matter, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan

Aug 2016 Banff Workshop, Geometrical Degrees of Freedom in Topological Phases, Canada

June 2014 Dynamics and Transport in Quantum Matter, Technion, Haifa, Israel

July 2013 Spin Orbit Entanglement: Exotic States of Quantum Matter in Electronic Systems, MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany

June 2013 Emergent Quantum Phases in Condensed Matter, ISSP, Tokyo, Japan

Sept 2012 Frustrated Magnetism and Quantum Spin Liquids, KITP, Santa Barbara