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PhD Alumni


List of alumni and their positions
NAME GRAD YEAR POSITION EMPLOYER LOCATION
Deng, Junjing 2016 Assistant Physicist Argonne National Laboratory DuPage County, IL
Jing, Yufei 2016 Quantitative Analyst Citigroup New York City, NY
Chiang, Naihao 2017 Assistant Professor University of Houston Houston, TX
Nowierski, Samantha 2017 Senior Hardware Development Engineer Infinera Corporation Sunnyvale, CA
Cui, Boya 2017 Quality & Reliability Engineer Intel Corporation OR, USA
Li, Kenan 2017 Research Associate SLAC
Wei, Guohua 2017 Optical Scientist Facebook Reality Lab. Seattle area, WA
Davis, Sam 2017 Physicist Intel Corporation Portland, OR
Zeng, Li 2017 Postdoc Research Fellow Stanford University CA
Chen, Xiao 2017 Scientist Applied Materials, Inc. Santa Clara, CA
Christopher Engelhardt 2018 Software Engineer Cadence Design Systems CA
Lintao Peng 2018 Postdoc Northwestern University IL
Yue Sun 2018 Quantitative Research JPMorgan New York, NY
Weijia Wang 2018 Lam Research CA
Emily Sprague-Klein 2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Brown University Providence, RI
Saijie Pan 2018 NA NA NA
Zonghui Wei 2018 Data scientist SparkBeyond New York
Martin Girard 2018 Group leader Max Plank institute for polymer research Ackermannweg 10, D-55128 Mainz
Honghao Li 2018 Software Engineer Google Mountain View, CA
Ming Han 2018 Post Doc Training University of Chicago Chicago, IL
Xiaolong Liu 2018 Assistant Professor Notre Dame University Indiana
Xu Chen 2018 Scientist Exponent Shanghai, China
Kurinji Krishnamoorthy 2019 Formulation Scientist DuPont Industrial Biosciences Palo Alto, CA
Kyle McCall 2019 Assistant Professor UT Dallas Texas
Wenli Wu 2019 Associate Goldman Sachs New York, NY 10282
Danqing Wang 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA
Daikang Yan 2019 Postdoctoral Associate Quantum Sensor Group at NIST Boulder, CO
Yue Li 2019 Post-doc. Northwestern University, Dr. Vadim Backman's lab. Evanston, IL
Xin Xu 2019 Faculty Tenure-Track Hire (starting Jan 2024) Arizona State University AZ
Ziwei Wang 2020 Quantitative Researcher Citadel LLC Chicago, IL
Frank Barrows 2021 Medical Doctor candidate Northwestern MSTP Evanston, IL
Yaohua Li 2021 Research Engineer Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd China
Katherine Harmon 2021 Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Materials Science Department Stanford University CA
Jimmy Kuo 2021 Post-doc. Stanford University CA
Jun Guan 2021 Post-doc. Northwestern, Chemistry Department Evanston, IL
Saugat Kandel 2021 Post-doc. Argonne National Lab Lemont, IL
Jack Olding 2021 Consultant BCG Detroit, MI
Trevor LaMountain 2021 Optical Engineer PRO Unlimited Redmond, WA
Xinyuan You 2021 Post-doc SQMS center,  Fermilab DuPage County, Illinois
Sajid Ali Syed 2021 Senior Research Software Engineer New York University New York, NY
Sruthi Venkataramanababu 2022 Sr. optical engineer Seagate Technologies Bloomington, Minnesota
Everett Vacek 2022
List of alumni and their positions
Senior Researcher
John's Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Hang Yuan 2022
Jovan Nelson 2023 Sr. Optical Engineer Lumentum San Jose, CA
Bianca Baldassarri 2023
Alex Tyner 2023
Arthur McCray 2023  Post-doc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (computational electron microscopy) Berkeley, CA
Ali Ehlen 2024 Senior Energy Markets Modeler Pattern Energy
Dingwen Qian 2024 Postdoctoral researcher UT Austin (Prof. Thomas Truskett Group- Chemical Engineering department) Austin, TX
Anirudh Ramesh 2024 Quantum Systems Validation Engineer PsiQuantum Corp. Palo Alto, CA