Current and former graduate students

Kieran Cooney

Chris Fechisin  (joint with Alexey Gorshkov)

Tao Tao

Dayal Kalra

Yuxuan Zhang (PhD 2025)

Naren Manjunath (PhD 2023),  (--> postdoctoral researcher at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Ali Lavasani (PhD 2022)  ( --> postdoctoral researcher at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics / UC Santa Barbara --> Quantinuum)

Srivatsa Tata (M.S. 2021), (--> PhD student in Mathematics at Yale)

Current and former postdocs

Dr. Yan-Qi Wang (JQI Postdoctoral Fellow)

Dr. Ryohei Kobayashi (JQI Postdoctoral Fellow), now postdoctoral researcher at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ

Dr. Yu-An Chen (JQI Postdoctoral Fellow), now Assistant Professor of Physics at ICQM, Peking University

Dr. Sheng-Jie Huang (JQI Postdoctoral Fellow), now postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University

Dr. Daniel Bulmash (CMTC Postdoctoral Fellow), now Assistant Professor of Physics at US Naval Academy

Dr. Guanyu Zhu (joint with M. Hafezi), now Resarch Staff Member at IBM Quantum

Additional collaborators at UMD

Profs. Mohammad Hafezi, Jay Deep Sau, Sankar Das Sarma

Michael Gullans (NIST / UMD), Victor Albert (NIST / UMD)

Ze-Pei Cian (PhD 2022, advisor M. Hafezi), now Millenium Capital

En-Jui Kuo (PhD 2022, advisor by M. Hafezi)

Gautam Nambiar (PhD 2025, advised by M. Hafezi and V. Galitski)

Yahya Alavirad (PhD 2020, advisor Jay Deep Sau), now Citadel

Dr. Hossein Dehghani (Postdoc in Hafezi group), now QuEra

Additional current and former collaborators

I am fortunate to have had many distinguished, brilliant collaborators over the years all over the world. An incomplete list:

Xiao-Gang Wen,  Steven A. Kivelson, Michael H. Freedman, Senthil Todadri, John McGreevy, Brian Swingle, Xiao-Liang Qi, Sean Hartnoll, Chetan Nayak, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Ashvin Vishwanath, Parsa Bonderson, Kevin Walker, Zhenghan Wang, Michael Zaletel, Meng Cheng, Zohar Komargodski, Andrey Gromov, Chao-Ming Jian, David Penneys, Corey Jones, Yuan-Ming Lu, Andrew Potter, Jainendra Jain, Andrea Young, Ajit Balram, Mark Rudner, Raghu Mahajan, Yuval Oreg, Erez Berg, Abolhassan Vaezi, Ronny Thomale, Hong-Chen Jiang, Christopher Laumann, Norman Yao, Michael Mulligan, Jennifer Cano, David J. Clarke, Zlatko Papic, Yang-Le Wu, Po-Shen Hsin, Vladimir Calvera