Directory

Faculty

John Bowers

UC Santa Barbara

2221C Engineering Sciences

Raphaële Clément

UC Santa Barbara

3009 Materials Research Laboratory

John Harter

Thrust 1 Co-Lead
UC Santa Barbara

3223 Elings Hall

Ania Bleszynski Jayich

Principal Investigator, Industry Coordinator
UC Santa Barbara

4105 Broida

Bolin Liao

UC Santa Barbara

Engineering Sciences 3231E

Galan Moody

Thrust 3 Co-Lead
UC Santa Barbara

ESB 2231C

Ram Seshadri

Co-Lead Outreach and Diversity
UC Santa Barbara

3008 Materials Research Lab

Wim van Dam

UC Santa Barbara - Affiliated Faculty

2151 Harold Frank Hall

Chris Van de Walle

Thrust 3 Co-Lead
UC Santa Barbara

2510 Engineering II

David Weld

Curriculum Coordinator
UC Santa Barbara

4119 Broida

Stephen Wilson

Co-Principal Investigator, Facilities Coordinator
UC Santa Barbara

3215 Elings Hall

Wojciech Zurek

UC Santa Barbara - Affiliated Faculty

Staff

Kelsey Leonard Moore

UC Santa Barbara

Elings Hall 3241

Administrative Coordinator

M. Ofelia Aguirre Paden

UC Santa Barbara

1207 Elings Hall

Co-Lead Outreach and Diversity

Wendy Ibsen

UC Santa Barbara

1205 Elings Hall

Undergraduate Research and Outreach Coordinator

Anne Leak

UC Santa Barbara

Evaluation Co-Lead

Lubi Lenaburg

UC Santa Barbara

1221 Elings Hall

Evaluation Co-Lead

Tal Margalith

UC Santa Barbara

3235 Elings Hall

Industry Coordinator

Rachel Schoeppner

UC Santa Barbara

3227 Elings Hall

Facilities Manager

Ellie Sciaky

UC Santa Barbara

1201 Elings Hall

Evaluation Co-Lead

Julie Standish

UC Santa Barbara

2061 Materials Research Laboratory

Graduate Training Coordinator

Fellows

Andrea Capa Salinas

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Joshua Castro

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Yubi Chen

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Anna Dardia

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Alex Giovannone

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Ian Hedgepeth

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Lillian Hughes

UC Santa Barbara

Elings 2219
Graduate Fellow

Rimika Jaiswal

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Simon Munyan

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Eber Nolasco-Martinez

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Carl Padgett

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Yiming Pang

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Kamyar Parto

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Yujie Quan

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Evgeny Redekop

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Cian Reeves

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Aaron Schwan

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Owen Sheekey

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Somaiyeh Shokri Kalan

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Lillian Thiel

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Teun van Schijndel

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Aurland Watkins

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow
Graduate Fellow

Xianjun Yang

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Associates

Jeff Ahlers

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Arsineh Apelian

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Trevor Arp

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Yifei Bai

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Eve Bodnia

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Samuel Brantly

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Annabelle Canestraight

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Juan Chamorro

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Usama Choudhry

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Paul Corbae

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Connor Dempsey

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Viraj Dharod

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Jason Dong

UC Santa Barbara

Building 489, Room 111
QF Associate

Peter Dotti

UC Santa Barbara

Trailer 939, Room 1002
QF Associate

Aaron Engel

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Jeremy Estes

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Reina Gomez

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Steven Gomez Alvarado

UC Santa Barbara

Elings 1209
QF Associate

Hongyi Guan

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Alex Hallett

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Nicholas Hamilton

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Alon Hendler Avidor

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Ludwig Holleis

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Andrei Isichenko

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Arturo Juan

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Siavash Karbasizadeh

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Sunghoon Kim

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate
QF Associate
QF Associate

Nick Lewis

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Kaikai Liu

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Wangqian Miao

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Nelson Moreno

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Kevin Nangoi

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Hyunseok Oh

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Shreyas Parthasarathy

UC Santa Barbara

B939, Room 1004
QF Associate

Sahil Patel

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Jayden Plumb

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Ganesh Pokharel

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Brad Price

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Arman Rashidi

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Dibyata Rout

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Scholar

Ruben Saatjian

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Sarah Schwarz

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Jeremy Tanlimco

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Emily Trageser

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Jack Tregidga

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Mark Turiansky

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Jayameenakshi Venkatraman

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Chandan Kumar Vishwakarma

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Chih-Hung Wu

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Ben Xie

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Wilson Yanez-Parreno

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Zhiran Zhang

UC Santa Barbara

B939, Room 1010
QF Associate

Fangzhou Zhao

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Interns

Andrew Allison

QF Intern Summer 2023

Santa Barbara City College, UCSB

Major: Physics
Mentors: Joshua Castro, Professor Galan Moody

Catalina Avarvarei

QF Intern Summer 2022

Ventura College, UC San Diego

Major: Chemistry
Mentors: Alex Hallett, Professor John Harter

Jason Barrios

QF Intern Summer 2021

Santa Barbara City College, UC Santa Barbara

Major: Electrical Engineering
Mentors: Dr. Carlos Mejuto-Zaera, Professor Vojtech Vlcek

Adam Bissett

QF Intern Summer 2021

Moorpark College

Major: Electrical Engineering
Mentors: Kamyar Parto, Professor Galan Moody

Miranda Claypool

Undergraduate Researcher 2023

UCSB Department of Physics

Major: Physics
Mentors: Dr. Antonin Sojka, Professor Mark Sherwin

Melika Dabiri

QF Intern Summer 2023

Santa Barbara City College, CalPoly SLO

Major: Computer Science
Mentors: Rachel Schoeppner, Professor Ania Jayich

Alex Dinkelacker

QF Intern Summer 2020

Santa Barbara City College, UC Santa Barbara

Major: Electrical Engineering
Mentors: Trevor Steiner, Professor John Bowers, Professor Galan Moody

Liao Duan

Undergraduate Researcher 2022

UC Santa Barbara

Major: Computer Engineering
Mentors: Trevor Steiner, Professor Galan Moody

Erick Elizalde

QF Intern Summer 2023

Santa Barbara City College

Major: Computer Engineering

Winry Ember

QF Intern Summer 2023

UC Berkeley

Major: Physics
Mentors: Jared Padgett, Professor 

Michael Garcia Alcoser

QF Intern Summer 2021

High Point University

Major: Physics
Mentors: Dr. Brenden Ortiz, Professor Stephen Wilson

Reina Gomez

QF Intern Summer 2021

UC San Diego

Major: NanoEngineering
Mentors: Aurland Hay, Dr. Juan Chamorro, Professor Ram Seshadri

Malia Gundayao

QF Intern Summer 2022

Oxnard College

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Mentors: Dr. Brenden Ortiz, Professor Stephen Wilson

Tz-Wei Hung

QF Intern Summer 2020

Pasadena City College, UC Los Angeles

Major: Electrical Engineering
Mentors: Michael Choquer, Professor Galan Moody

 

Robert Krumland-Dunning

Undergraduate Researcher 2022

UC Santa Barbara

Major: Physics
Mentors: Antonin Sojka, Professor Mark Sherwin

Lucas Lau

Undergraduate Researcher 2022

UC Santa Barbara

Major: Physics
Mentors: Antonin Sojka, Professor Mark Sherwin

Allison LeBus

QF Intern Summer 2021

Ventura College, UC Santa Barbara

Major: Computer Engineering
Mentors: Xianjun Yang, Professor Linda Petzold

Joel Lehman

QF Intern Summer 2022

Santa Barbara City College

Major: Computer Science
Mentors: Aaron Engel, Dr. Aranya Goswami, Professor Chris Palmstrøm

Cleo Lepart

QF Intern Summer 2023

UC Berkeley

Major: Physics
Mentors: Madeleine Bow Jun Leibovitch, Professor David Weld

Qianyi Lin

QF Intern Summer 2021

Grossmont College, UC Los Angeles

Major: Aerospace Engineering
Mentors: Julia Zuo, Professor Stephen Wilson

Catherine Lozano

QF Intern Summer 2022

East Los Angeles College, University of Southern California

Major: Aerospace Engineering
Mentors: Yujie Quan, Professor Bolin Liao

Marcos Marmolejo

QF Intern Summer 2020, 2021

Ventura Community College, UC Berkeley

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Mentors: Linus Kautzsch, Professor Stephen Wilson

Ian McGuire

QF Intern Summer 2023

Harvey Mudd College

Major: Physics
Mentors: Lillian Hughes & Rachel Schoeppner, Professor Ania Jayich

Thien Vy Nguyen

QF Intern Summer 2020

Pasadena City College, UC Santa Barbara

Major: Physics
Mentors: Dr. Mariya Romanova, Professor Vojtech Vlcek

 

Rio Ondo

QF Intern Summer 2020

UC Santa Barbara

Major: Physics
Mentors: Jeff Cady, Professor Ania Jayich

 

Madison Parriott

QF Intern Summer 2020

Ventura College

Major: Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Mentors: Hadass Inbar, Professor Chris Palmstrom

Jesus Perez

QF Intern Summer 2021

Ventura College, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Mentors: Dr. Shaimaa Azzam, Professor Galan Moody

Esteban Perez

QF Intern Summer 2022

Allan Hancock College, Cal Poly SLO

Major: Electrical Engineering
Mentors: Steven Gomez, Professor Stephen Wilson

Mitchell Peterson

QF Intern Summer 2022

Diablo Valley College, Stanford

Major: Electrical Engineering
Mentors: Michael Choquer, Professor Galan Moody

Jose Francisco Salgado

QF Intern Summer 2023

Allan Hancock College, Cal Poly SLO

Major: Mechanical Engineering
Mentors: Reina Gomez, Professor Stephen Wilson

Vanessa Santillan

QF Intern Summer 2022

Santa Barbara City College

Major: Computer Engineering
Mentors: Lillian Thiel, Professor John Bowers

Audrina Sewal

QF Intern Summer 2021

Santa Barbara City College, UC Berkeley

Major: Physics
Mentors: Seamus O'Hara, Professor Mark Sherwin

Wade Varesio

QF Intern Summer 2020

Santa Barbara City College, UC Santa Barbara

Major: Computer Science
Mentors: Ryan Russell, Professor John Harter 

 

Marta Vicencio

QF Intern Summer 2021

UC San Diego

Major: NanoEngineering
Mentors: Yujie Quan, Professor Bolin Liao

Chisondi Warioba

QF Intern Summer 2020

Westmont College

Major: Physics
Mentors: Peter Dotti, Professor David Weld

 

Claire Weigel

QF Intern Summer 2023

Santa Barbara City College

Major: Physics & Mathematics
Mentors: Yubi Chen, Professor Bolin Liao

Chloe Wheeler

QF Intern Summer 2022

UC Santa Barbara

Major: Physics
Mentors: Antonin Sojka, Professor Mark Sherwin

Stephen Wong

UC Santa Barbara

Undergraduate Researcher 2023

Andrew Yanez

Undergraduate Researcher 2023

UCSB Department of Physics

Major: Physics
Mentors: Sahil Patel, Professor Galan Moody

Alumni

Shaimaa Azzam

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate

Michael Choquer

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Nicholas Combs

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Joseph Costello

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Biswajit Datta

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate

Lianyang Dong

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate
QF Postdoctoral Associate

Luca Galletti

UC Santa Barbara

MRL 2005
QF Postdoctral Associate

Aranya Goswami

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Evan Guo

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Brian Haidet

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Kasra Hejazi

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Hadass Inbar

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Azzedin Jackson

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Bruno Jacob

UC Santa Barbara

BioE, Room 3205
QF Associate

Hanbyeol Jeong

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Farnaz Kaboudvand

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Linus Kautzsch

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Aleksei Khindanov

UC Santa Barbara

Broida Hall, Office 6218
QF Associate

Taeyong Kim

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate

Esat Kondakci

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate

Jacob Levitt

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Chunxiao Liu

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Paz London

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Jose Fernando Luna

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Zhu-Xi Luo

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Stephanie Mack

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate

Corey McDonald

University of Boulder

QF Postdoctoral Scholar

Matthew McEwen

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Simon Meynell

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

James (Seamus) O'Hara

UC Santa Barbara

B939, Room 1009
QF Associate

Brenden Ortiz

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate

Taka Park

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Mihir Pendharkar

UC Santa Barbara

QF Postdoctoral Associate

Noah Ratcliff

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Mariya Romanova

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Scholar

Ryan Russell

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Roshan Sajjad

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Paul Sarte

UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Associate

Emily Schueller

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Marec Serlin

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Trevor Steiner

UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Fellow

Samuel Teicher

UC Santa Barbara

MRL 2202
QF Associate

Eli Zoghlin

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate

Julia Zuo

UC Santa Barbara

QF Associate