Group

Romain Vasseur, Associate Professor

• • Associate Professor, University of Geneva, 2025-…

  • Associate Professor, UMass Amherst, 2021–2024

  • Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst, 2017–2021

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, 2013-2017. Advisor: Joel Moore.

  • PhD, Physics, CEA Saclay and Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, 2013. Advisors: Jesper Jacobsen and Hubert Saleur.

  • M.S., Physics, ENS Paris, 2010.

  • B.S, Physics, ENS Lyon, 2008.

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Kabir Khanna, Phd student, 2023 — …

• • • MSc Mathematical and Theoretical Physics, Oxford 2023

    • M.Tech Quantum Science and Technology, IIT Madras 2022

    • B.Tech Engineering Design, IIT Madras 2022

Catherine McCarthy, Phd student, 2022 — …

• • • B.S., Physics, Georgetown University, 2022

    • NSF Graduate Fellow, 2023-2026.

Abhishek Kumar, Phd student, 2021 — …

• • • Integrated M.Sc., Physics, NISER Bhubaneswar, 2021.

Hansveer Singh, Phd student, 2019 — 2024

• • B.S, Physics and Mathematics, UCSD 2017

  • After UMass: Postdoc at the Max Planck institute (MPI-PKS) in Dresden 

Javier Lopez Piqueres, Phd student 2018 — 2023

• • Master, LMU Munich, 2017-2018.

  • M.S., Physics, Ecole Normale Superieure Paris, 2017.

  • B.S., Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid, 2016.

  • University of Manchester, Erasmus Program, 2015-2016.

  • After UMass: Quantum computing division of NASDAQ –> QC division of JP Morgan (NYC)

Dr Ewan McCulloch, Postdoc 2022-2023

• • PhD Theoretical Physics, University of Birmingham, 2018-2022. Advisor: Dr Curt W. von Keyserlingk

  • MMathPhys, University of Oxford, 2017-2018.

  • MSci Physics, University of Oxford, 2014-2017.

  • After UMass: Postdoc at Princeton University (with S. Gopalakrishnan) 

Dr Fergus Barratt, Postdoc 2021 — 2022

• • Postdoc, Quantum Simulation and Quantum Machine Learning, University College London 2021.

  • PhD Theoretical Physics, King’s College London, 2017-2021. Advisor: Pr. Andrew Green.

  • MSc Non-Equilibrium Physics, King’s College London, 2016-2017.

  • MSci Physics, University College London, 2012-2016.

  • After UMass: Co-founder of TitanML

Utkarsh Agrawal, Phd student 2017 — 2022

• • PhD UMass Amherst 2022.

  • B.Tech, Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2017.

  • After UMass: Postdoctoral fellow at KITP.

Dr Brayden Ware, Postdoc 2018 — 2021

• • Postdoctoral Researcher, Rudolf Peierls Center for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University,  Oct. 2017-2018. Advisor: Sid Parameswaran.

  • PhD, Physics, UC Santa Barbara and Microsoft Station Q, 2017. Advisors: Bela Bauer and Chetan Nayak.

  • M.S., Physics, UC Santa Barbara, 2014.

  • B.S, Physics and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011.

  • After UMass: Postdoc at NIST/JQI at UMD –> Google Quantum AI

Aaron Friedman, Visiting graduate student 2018 — 2019

• • Graduate student, UC Irvine 2014–2019. (Advisor: Sid Parameswaran)

  • Recognized student, Oxford 2017-18

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellow, 2016-2019

  • B.S. Physics, UC San Diego, 2013

  • After UMass: Postdocs at UT Austin –> CU Boulder