Student Team
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Nicolas Dirnegger
Nick is a PhD student, QCSA Board Member and researcher with a background in quantum sensing, materials and the simulation of quantum devices. After completing his BSc in Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich and joining the NarangLab in 2023, Nick has rapidly expanded his skillset, working at the Air Force Research Laboratory and IBM Research.
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Alexander Jürgens
Alex is a UCLA PhD student, researcher in the NarangLab and co-President of the QCSA. In his research, he focuses on the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning as well as quantum algorithms and learning theory. Before coming to UCLA, Alex obtained his MSc in Quantum Engineering at ETH Zürich and worked at IBM and the German Aerospace Center.
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Cody Fan
Cody received a double Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Physics from UCLA and a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from UCLA with a Distinguished Masters Thesis Award. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Lab as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Currently, his main research focus is on superconducting bosonic qubits and silicon color centers. Before starting graduate school, he interned at Stanford Research Institute as a Quantum Machine Learning Intern.
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Victor Yu
Victor is an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student and co-President of the QCSA. He is interested in quantum error correction and semiconductor spin qubits. He enjoys talking with others who are also passionate about quantum computing and introducing newcomers to the field.
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Drew Downing
Drew is a QCSA Board Member and third-year law student at UCLA, concentrating in Business Law & Policy. He additionally serves as a Chief Managing Editor for the UCLA Journal of Law & Technology, the Vice President of the Law & Entrepreneurship Association, and an Alumni & Career Outreach Chair for the AI Law Association. Before law school, he received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics & Philosophy from Boston University, minoring in Economics.
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Samuel Oh
Samuel is a second-year Computer Science and Economics student at UCLA. He serves as Sector Head at Bruin Capital Management and is actively involved in multiple finance organizations on campus. Samuel previously served 18 months in the Republic of Korea Army, where he worked in Korean-English interpretation and military logistics. His past experiences also include internships in corporate finance and consulting. After graduation, he hopes to pursue a career in the finance industry.
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Ilaana Khan
Ilaana is an undergraduate Physics student at UCLA and Board member of QCSA. She is involved with the P-3 Lab with Dr. Scanlan and Upsilon Lab with Dr. Hauser in which she studies psychology in talent development and computational fluid dynamics respectively. Ilaana is also certified as a first responder with the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.
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Shreya Shirsathe
Shreya is a 2nd year undergraduate in the EE/CS department at UCLA and Board member of QCSA. She is interested in quantum algorithms and hybrid quantum-classical systems. She enjoys connecting with others who share a passion for quantum computing and exploring how classical and quantum systems can work together.
Advisory Team
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Prof. Eli Levenson-Falk
Eli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at USC. He runs LFL, an experimental research group using superconducting circuits for quantum information science. Before coming to USC, Eli obtained a Bachelor’s in physics at Harvard and a PhD in physics at UC Berkeley, with a brief foray into hard condensed matter and sub-mm gravity research as a postdoc at Stanford.
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Dr. Zlatko K. Minev
Zlatko (presently at Google Quantum AI) was the technical lead and manager at IBM Quantum - Qiskit Leap (quantum computing research) and Qiskit Metal (quantum hardware). His background is in experimental and theoretical quantum computing, software, fundamental and applied physics. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University, working in the Devoret Quantum Lab with superconducting quantum circuits. His B.A. in Physics is from UC Berkeley with Irfan Siddiqi's Quantum Nano-Electronics Lab.
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Dr. Murat Can Sarıhan
Murat is is a research scientist at Google Quantum AI, working on NISQ applications of superconducting quantum devices. He completed his PhD as a Fulbright scholar at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a thesis on quantum networking. He worked on all the aspects of a practical quantum network, i.e. generation, transmission, and storage of quantum information, plus efficient coding and error correction schemes for quantum key generation.
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Prof. Mark Gyure
Mark is adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCLA and Executive Director of the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering. In addition to coordinating the day-to-day activities of the CQSE, Gyure’s research is focused on the theory and simulation of solid-state quantum information processing devices and architectures, specifically electrostatically-defined semiconductor quantum dots.
Acknowledgments
This workshop is an initiative of the Quantum Computing Student Organization (QCSA), a student-led association at UCLA affiliated with the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (CQSE) and the Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC). Its members are funded through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Gordon and Betty Moore foundation and the Quantum Science Center (QSC) through the Narang Lab.
The SQuADDS database project is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement."
