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A native of Omaha, Nebraska and a squirrel watching enthusiast, when I'm not working on physics, you may find me running or gardening!

Group Leader: Dr. Benjamin P. Nachman

Staff Scientist, Physics Division, Berkeley Lab

Research Affiliate, Berkeley Institute for Data Science

Research Associate, UC Berkeley Department of Physics

Brief Academic History

  • Chamberlain Postdoctoral Fellow
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2016-2020
  • Research Fellow
    Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, 2018
  • Ph.D. in Physics, minor in Statistics
    Stanford University, 2016
  • MASt in Applied Mathematics
    Cambridge University, 2013
    Churchill Scholarship
  • B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, Economics
    Cornell University, 2012

Current Group Members

Postdocs

Dr. Sascha Diefenbachar

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Aishik Ghosh

UC Irvine / LBNL Postdoc

Dr. Vinicius Mikuni

NESAP Fellow

Dr. Dennis Noll

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Mariel Pettee

Chamberlain Fellow

Dr. Fernando Torales Acosta

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Tanvi Wamorkar

Postdoctoral Fellow

Graduate Students

Alkaid Cheng

U. Wisconsin (Visiting)

Jordan Dudley

UCB Graduate Student (rotation)

Krish Desai

UCB Graduate Student

Nick Heller

UCB Graduate Student (rotation)

Radha Mastandrea

UCB Graduate Student

Jingjing Pan

Yale Graduate Student (visiting)

Nathan Suri

Yale Graduate Student (visiting)

Postgraduates

Malika Golshan

SULI Intern Fall '24

Pradyun Hebbar

Post-bach. researcher Fall '24

Former Members

Postdocs

Dr. Elham Khoda

U. Washington Postdoc
(Berkeley Lab visitor '22-'24)
Next: Staff at UCSD

Graduate Students

Kehang Bai

U. Oregon (Visiting)
Spring '23 - Fall '23
Next: back to U. Oregon

Jay Chan

U. Wisconsin Graduate Student (visitor)
Fall '22 - Spring '23
Next: LBNL postdoc

Haoxing Du

UCB Graduate Student
Rotation, Spring '22 - Fall '22
Next: Redwood Research

Matan Grinberg

UCB Graduate Student
Fall '22 - Spring '23
Next: CEO at Factory

Luc LePottier

UCB Graduate Student
Rotation, Fall '21 - Spring '22
Next: Joined LBNL/UCB ATLAS Group

Yvonne Ng

UC Irvine Graduate Student (visitor)
Fall '20 - Spring '21
Next: DESY postdoc

Richard Zhu

CMU Stats. (Visiting)
Summer '24

  • Pablo Martín [Visitor, Fall 2019] (theory PhD student from Instituto de Física Teórica UAM/CSIC)
  • Gang Zhang [Visitor, Spring 2019] (experimental PhD student from Tsinghua University)
  • Wanyun Su [Visitor, Fall 2018] (experimental PhD student from Shanghai)
  • Javier Aparisi Poso [Visitor, Fall 2018] (experimental PhD student from Valencia)
  • Fuyue Wang [Visitor, Fall 2016 - Fall 2017] (instrumentation PhD student from Tsinghua University)
  • Michela Paganini [Visitor, Fall 2016 - Spring 2019] (experimental PhD student from Yale University)

Post-baccalaureate Interns

Zoe Webb-Mack

SULI Summer '21
(Next: post-bach fellow at Barnard)

Ian Lim

SULI/BLUR Fall '17 - Spring '18
(Next: Ph.D. student at UC Davis)

Shahzar Rizvi

UCB Masters Student
(Next: PhD. student at MIT)

Gup Singh

SULI Intern

Yao Xu

SULI Fall '21

Undergraduates

Sulaiman Alvi

UCB Undergraduate ('23)
(Next: Ph.D. student at Perdue)

Kees Benkendorfer

Reed Undergraduate ('21)
(Next: Ph.D. student at Harvard)

Diana Chamaki

UCB Graduate ('21)
(Next: Intern at NASA Ames then Ph.D. at Columbia)

Ming Fong ('24)

UCB Undergraduate
(Next: Research Developer at Headlands Tech.)

Nishank Gite ('24)

UCB Undergraduate
(Next: Part III at Cambridge)

Rebecca Hicks

UCB Undergraduate ('21)
(Next: SULI at LANL then Ph.D. at UPenn)

Jason Huang

UCB Graduate ('21)
(Next: Ph.D. student at UIUC)

Norman Karr

UCB Undergraduate ('21)

Kasia Krzyzanska

Princeton Undergraduate
REU Summer '21
(Next: Masters at Oxford then Ph.D. at Cornell)

Jerry Lai

UCB Undergraduate ('21)
(Next: Software Engineer at Roblox)

Ashia Lewis

University of Alabama Undergraduate
NERSC Summer Intern '21

Luc LePottier

University of Michigan Graduate ('21)
(Next: Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley)


Joshua Lin

UCB Graduate ('20)
(Next: Ph.D. student at MIT)

Vishnu Sangli

UCB Undergraduate

Adi Suresh

UCB Undergraduate ('22)
(Next: Ph.D. student at Stanford)

Sowmya Thanvantri ('24)

UCB Undergraduate
(Next: Ph.D. at Princeton)


Vikas Ummadisetty

UCB Undergraduate

Jason Wong

UCB Undergraduate
(Next: Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley)

Hyunoh Yeo

UCB Undergraduate

  • Wyatt Blair [URAP Spring 2019 - Fall 2019]
  • Alex Spies [URAP Spring 2018 - Spring 2019]
  • Charles Johnson [URAP Fall 2018 - Spring 2019]
  • Sam Bright-Thonney [URAP Fall 2017 - 2018]
  • Harley Patton [URAP Fall 2016 - 2018]
  • Zitong Yang [URAP Fall 2016 - Spring 2017]
  • Yitian Chen [URAP Fall 2016 - Spring 2017]