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Principal Investigator\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\"\" Sara Mouradian<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is 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.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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Graduate Students<\/span><\/h2>\r\n\"\"Ritika (Rithi)<\/span> Anandwade <\/strong>(rih-thih-kuh (rih-thi) aah-nuhndh-waa-day<\/i>) is a graduate student in the University of Washington physics department.\u00a0 Prior to attending UW, she got her B.S in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u00a0 When she’s not in the lab or at school she enjoys playing with her cat Ollie, reading, and exploring Seattle.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\"\"Hae Lim <\/strong>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.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\"\"<\/strong>\r\n\r\nCaleb Walton<\/strong> 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.)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\"\"Koray Mentesoglu i<\/strong>s 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.\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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Masters Students<\/span><\/h2>\r\n\"\"Minh Anh Nguyen<\/strong> is an undergraduate student at UW majoring in Electrical and\u00a0Computer Engineering, with a minor in Mathematical Physics. Before working at Scalable Quantum Research Lab<\/i>, she was a research intern in the\u00a0Electronics and Quantum Magnetism Unit <\/i>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.<\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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Undergraduate Students<\/h2>\r\n\"\"Ian Kinsella<\/strong> 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.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\"\"Sophie McGee<\/strong> is an undergraduate student at UW majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a minor in Applied Mathematics. In her free time, she enjoys playing soccer, crocheting, trying new hobbies, and playing board games.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n \"\"<\/strong>Anirudh Seshadri <\/b>is an undergraduate student at the University of Washington studying Applied Physics. Before joining the Scalable Quantum Research Lab, he worked on theoretical quantum error correction and quantum circuits research at Texas A&M University. When he’s not working, he enjoys learning new sports or hobbies, hanging out with his friends, and having meaningful\u00a0conversations.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\"\"Jewoo Park<\/strong> is an undergraduate student at UW majoring in Computer Engineering and Physics. He is interested in VR\/AR, low level programming languages, and quantum algorithms\/ applications. In his free time, he likes watching movies, traveling, and exploring new programming languages.\r\n

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Alumni<\/span><\/h2>\r\n
Postdoctoral Associates\r\n<\/strong>Brant Bowers, now at IonQ\r\nChristian Pluchar, now at Mitutoyo\r\n\r\nUndergraduates<\/strong><\/span>\r\nVikram Kashyap, PhD candidate, University of Maryland\r\nMayra Diaz, Research Assitant, PNNL<\/span>\r\nYuan Li, Photonics Engineer at Opticore<\/span>\r\nJacob Barnhart, PhD candidate, University of Michigan\r\n<\/span>Malek Succar, PhD candidate, Cornell University<\/span>\r\nZengli Ba, PhD candidate, Princeton University<\/span>\r\nDuy Vuong, SoC Design Engineer at Intel\r\nShuyun Liu, PhD candidate, UW\r\nKatharine Lundblad, Master's student, UW\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Principal Investigator Sara Mouradian\u00a0is 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.   … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/sqrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}