People

Principal Investigator

Sara Mouradian is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UW. She received her B.S., M.Eng., and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before starting at UW she was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. When she’s not in lab she’s probably cooking, reading, or exploring the outdoors.

 

Postdoctoral Researchers

Christian Pluchar is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Scalable Quantum Research Lab. He received his PhD and MS from the University of Arizona and his BA in physics from Amherst College. He is an avid skier, cyclist, and general lover of outdoor recreation.

 

 

Graduate Students

Ritika (Rithi) Anandwade (rih-thih-kuh (rih-thi) aah-nuhndh-waa-day) is a graduate student in the University of Washington physics department.  Prior to attending UW, she got her B.S in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  When she’s not in the lab or at school she enjoys playing with her cat Ollie, reading, and exploring Seattle. 

 

Hae Lim is a PhD student in the ECE Department at UW. He received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and MS in ECE (Electronics & Photonics) from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a fellow of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Accelerating Quantum-Enabled Technologies Fellowship at UW. He loves traveling around the world. From the East to the West, he has visited Japan, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, France, UK, Ireland, and Iceland, and Canada other than US and plans to travel more countries in the future.

Caleb Walton is a graduate student within the CHEM department at UW. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Davis. In his personal time, he enjoys taking care of plants, especially orchids, exploring different hikes throughout Washington (weather permitting), anything related to computers, and watching high-quality reality TV (VPR – his favorite, The Bachelor, Love is Blind, etc.)

 

Koray Mentesoglu is a PhD student in the ECE department at UW. He received his B.S. in EE from UCLA. Outside of the lab, he enjoys playing soccer and learning languages

 

 

Masters Students

Minh Anh Nguyen is an undergraduate student at UW majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a minor in Mathematical Physics. Before working at Scalable Quantum Research Lab, she was a research intern in the Electronics and Quantum Magnetism Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Technology working on surface acoustic wave devices. Outside of school and research, she enjoys any type of fiction and writing short stories.

 

Undergraduate Students

Ian Kinsella is an undergraduate student in the ECE department at UW focusing on photonics and computer architecture. In his free time he enjoys swimming, cycling, and going on walks with his dog Ginny.

 

 

Alumni

Postdoctoral Associates
Brant Bowers, now a Physicist at IonQ

Undergraduates
Vikram Kashyap, PhD candidate, University of Maryland
Denil Sabu, UW
Mayra Diaz, Heritage University
Yuan Li, Master's Student, University of Southern California
Jacob Barnhart, PhD candidate, University of Michigan
Hannah Lee, UW
Malek Succar,PhD candidate, Cornell University
Zengli Ba, PhD candidate, Princeton University
Duy Vuong, SoC Design Engineer at Intel
Shuyun Liu, PhD candidate, UW
Katharine Lundblad, UW