Principal Investigator
Dr. Michael Kolodrubetz (CV, Google Scholar)
PhD: Princeton University
Postdocs
Dr. Sam Begg (Google Scholar)
Postdoc, UT Dallas and Washington University at St. Louis(2025 – )
PhD : King’s College London
Research interests : Non-equilibrium quantum many-body physics: dynamical phases, quantum state engineering in quantum simulators, dynamics of quantum information, open quantum systems, anomalous relaxation, nonequilibrium critical phenomena, developing numerical methods.
Students
Mengxin Du (LinkedIn)
PhD student, UT Dallas(2019-2025)
Background: B.S. in Physics (USTC, 2017); M.S. in Physics (Brown, 2019)
Research Interests : Many-body dynamics in driven and cavity-QED systems (time crystals, kicked rotors/BECs), quantum error correction and code design, and coherent matter-wave transport.
Sasanka Dowarah (Google Scholar)
PhD student , UT Dallas(2021-)
Background : BS-MS in Physics(IISER Kolkata, 2020)
Research interests : Non-equilibrium phases of matter, quantum computing, quantum chaos, atomtronics.
Boris Gurevich
PhD student, UT Dallas
Manshuo Lin(Google Scholar, LinkedIn)
PhD student, UT Dallas(2022-)
Background : MS in Physics(UT Dallas, 2024)
Research interests : Floquet topological physics, open quantum systems and cQED
Amogh Desai(Google Scholar, LinkedIn)
PhD student, UT Dallas(2023-)
Background : BS-MS in Physics( IISER Bhopal, 2022); MS in Physics(UT Dallas, 2025)
Research interests : Non-equilibrium dynamics, open quantum systems, quantum information, quantum computing.
Alumni
Dr. Weihua Xie
Former Phd student
Dr. Mohsen Yarmohammadi (Google Scholar, LinkedIn)
Former Postdoc, 2022-2024
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Georgetown University
Dr. Saeed Rahmanian, PhD (CV, LinkedIn)
Former graduate student, 2019-2023
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Texas A&M University
Bishal Kumar Ghosh
Former student
Nicholas Southerland
Former Summer REU Student, 2024
Current Position: Undergraduate Student, St. Louis University
Khoa Nguyen
Former MS student, 2024
Current Position: Reearcher, Creighton University laser cooling group
Surihan (Sean) Borjigin
Former undergraduate researcher, 2024
Current Position: PhD Student, Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Umar Javed, PhD
Former graduate student 2020-2023
Current position: Teaching Professor, Oklahoma State University
Dr. Koki Chinzei, PhD
Visitor, University of Tokyo
Dr. Rong-Chun Ge, PhD
Former postdoc, 2018-2021
Current position: Assistant Professor, Sichuan University
Dr. Christopher (Ian) Timms, PhD
Former graduate student , 2018-2021
Current position: Quantum researcher at Amazon
Patrick Koch
Former undergraduate researcher, 2019-2020
Current position: graduate student, Golding lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lauren Pusey-Nazzaro
Former REU student, 2021
Nuno Vinicius Mendes Castanheira
Former undergraduate researcher, 2020
Rafael Josh
Former undergraduate researcher, 2019-2020
Current position: Web App Engineer, Brushfire Technology
Owen Tower
Former REU student, 2019
Berkley Shofner
Former undergraduate researcher, 2018