Yu Zhang

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Staff Scientist (Level 3)
Email: zhy AT lanl.gov

• BSc in Physics, Sun Yat-Sen University
• Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, The University of Hong Kong
• Postdoc at Northwestern University
• Director's Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Jacob Z. Williams

Postdoc Fellow, 08/2025 -

• BSc in Chemistry, University of Wyoming

• PhD in Chemistry (with Prof. Weitao Yang), Duke University

Michael A. D. Taylor

Director’s Postdoc Fellow, 07/2025 -

• BSc in Optics, University of Rochester

• PhD in Optics (with Prof. Pengfei (Frank) Huo), University of Rochester

Braden M. Weight

Director’s Postdoc Fellow, 05/2025 -

• BSc in Physics/Chemistry, North Dakota State University
• Master in Physics, North Dakota State University
• PhD in Physics (with Prof. Pengfei (Frank) Huo), University of Rochester

Ilia Mazin

Postdoc, 01/2024 - present

Research: Ab initio cavity quantum chemistry

• BSc, Metropolitan State University of Denver

• PhD (with Prof. Alexander Sokolov), The Ohio State University

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Nikhil V. Seshadri

SULI student, 2025

Research: Gutzwiller approximation for fermion-boson interaction

• Harvard College

Sameer A. Dambal

Summer GRA, 2024

Research: Planar hyperbolic polaritons and their applications in quantum transduction

• B.Tech, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

Chance Lander

Role: Summer GRA, 2023
Research: Semiempirical methods
Summer of 2023

Xinyang Li

Role: Postdoc
Research: Machine learning and nonadiabatic dynamics.
Now at Merck.

Ashutosh Kumar

Role: Postdoc
Research: Quantum computation
01/2021 - 04/2023; Now Research Scientist at Photonics Inc.

Nikolay Tkachenko

Role: Graduate Research Assistant (Utah State University)
Research: Quantum computation
Summers of 2020 - 2022; Now Postdoc at UC Berkeley

Nosheen Younas

Role: Graduate Research Assistant (University of Houston)
Research: Molecular qubits
06/2022 - 08/2022

Diana Chamaki

Role: Graduate Research Assistant (University of California, Berkeley)
Research: Quantum computation
06/2021 - 08/2021

James Sud

Role: Graduate Research Assistant (University of California, Berkeley)
Research: Quantum computation
06/2020 - 08/2020

Linqiu Li

Role: Graduate Research Assistant (University of Southern California)
Research: Nonadiabatic molecular dynamics
10/2019 - 01/2020