GROUP
- Matthew Gerry (Grad., Physics, 2020-) Stochastic thermodynamics
- Jonathan Wang (Grad., Chemistry, 2021-) Nanoscale heat transport
- Brett Min (Grad., Physics, 2022-) Dissipation engineering
- Matthew Pocrnic (Grad., Physics, 2022-); joint supervison with Prof. Nathan Wiebe, CS. Quantum computing and simulations
- Maggie Lawrence (Grad., Physics, 2022-); joint supervision with Prof. Juan Carasquilla, Vector. ML for quantum dynamics
- Tim Sorochkin (Grad., Physics, 2022-); Quantum dynamics with the Unified QME
- Jakub Garwola (Grad., Physics, 2023-); Effective Hamiltonian method
- Zachary Giles (Grad., Physics, 2024-); Quantum diffusion
- Alessandro Prositto (Grad., Physics, 2024-); Repeated interaction method
- Carlos Ramon Escandell (QUARMEN Grad. Physics, 2024-) Repeated interaction method
- Gabrielle Barsky-Giles (undergrad, NSERC-USRA 2025) spins at equilibrium and in motion
- Elise Wang (undergrad, NSERC-USRA 2025) Optimizing quantum networks
- Alex Stewart-Bozzo (undergrad, PHY378)
Quantum dissipative dynamics at strong coupling
Sunny lunch outside with (not all) members
Conferences
You can meet us at...Group meetings & CPTG seminars
Group Meetings (2025)Past meetings (2012) (2013) (2014)-(2015) (2017) (2018) (2019) (2020) (2021) (2022) (2023) (2024)
Former members
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Graduate Students (MSc, PhD)
- Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs 2019-2024, PhD, physics → Quant CCR, Scotiabank
- Jakub Garwola Sep. 2023-Aug. 2024, QUARMEN Msc, physics. → PhD program, UofT Physics
- Margaret Lawrence Sep. 2022-Aug. 2023, Msc, physics. → PhD program, UofT Physics
- Timothy Sorochkin Sep. 2022-Aug. 2023, Msc, physics. → PhD program, UofT Physics
- Francisco Lai Liang 2020-2022, MSc Long-range Charge Transport in Linear Molecular Chains → Associate Implementation Analyst at Enable
- Na'im Kalantar 2020-2021, MSc Simulations of Heat Current through Molecules → Institute for Defense Analyses → PhD program, University of Rochester, Mechanical Engineering, Hydrodynamics Lab
- Hava Friedman 2015-2020, PhD thesis→ Physical Science Officer at Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Michael Kilgour 2014-2019, PhD thesis → Pdoc at McGill → PDF in Chem., NYU (with Tuckerman)
- Roya Moghaddasi Fereidani 2016-2018, MSc. Thesis → Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) → PDF in Chemistry at UCSD
- Yelena Simine 2009-2014 (CHM499 Undergrad then Direct PhD) Thesis → Postdoc in Chemistry, Rice University (with Peter Rossky) → Assistant Professor, McGill 2019.
- Salil Bedkihal 2010-2014 (PhD) Thesis → Postdoc in Physics, McGill University → Research Fellow, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University → Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), U of Waterloo
- Claire Xue Yu 2009-2013 (Direct PhD)
Thesis
→ CITA; HPC Specialist and System Administrator
Summer students/Undergraduate students
- Jitian Chen (undergrad, CHM499 2024- ) Generation and protection of quantum coherences in qubits → PhD-MD program, McMaster
- Madeline Forbes (undergrad, NSERC USRA 2024) Repeated interaction model → Physics and Math, UBC, Undergraduate student
- Erin Fung (Natalia Krasnopolskaia Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships 2024) Quantum transport in lattices → Physics UofT, Undergraduate student
- Joanna Li (undergrad, NSERC USRA 23, ESC499 2023-2024, UTEA 24); UofT Engineering Science, Underaduate student
- Robert Andrade (undergrad, NSERC USRA +PHY479 2022-2023); UofT Chemistry, Undergraduate student
- Felix Ivander 2021-2022 (Summers 2021-2022, CHM499) → Berkeley Chemistry, Graduate Student → Harvard, Quantum Science and Engineering Graduate Student
- Jay Mehta (undergrad, Physics, CQIQC 2022) → McMaster Physics, UG
- Joy Ha 2021-2022 (CHM395) → UofT Chemistry, UG → University of California, Berkeley, Molecular Science and Software Engineering (MSc)
- Jonathan Wang 2018-2020 (summer 2019, CHM499 2020-2021) → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student
- Abisola Makindipe 2019-2020 (4th year Physics program, supervised reading), → Software Developer Sustainalytics
- Na'im Kalantar 2018-2020 (NSERC USRA 2018, CQIQC 2019, CHM499 2019-2020) → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student
- Robert Lang Summer 2018, → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student
- Anqi Mu 2017-2018, Physics Undergrad. UofT (CQIQC, PHY479) → Physics, Columbia University, Graduate student
- Roman Korol 2016-2018, Chemistry Undergrad. UofT → Caltech Chemistry, Graduate student
- Hyehwang Kim 2016, Chemistry Undergrad. UofT → MIT Chemistry, MSc → UofT Chemistry, Graduate student
- Nazim Boudjada (CQIQC Summer UnderGrad. 2014, École Polytechnique de Montréal) → UofT physics, Graduate Student
- Amro Dodin (Undergrad., NSERC USRA 2013, UofT) → UofT Chemistry, Graduate Student → MIT Chemistry, Graduate Student
- Crystal Chen (Undergrad., NSERC USRA 2013, UofT) → MIT Chemistry, Graduate Student
- Kunal Tiwari, Undergrad 2011-2012
→ Graduate student in Physics (Cond. Matt.), McGill University
- Raphael Pengcheng Dong , Undergraduate 2009-2010
→ PhD student, Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary - Yelena Simine (nee Nicolin) , Undergraduate 2008-2009
→ PhD student UofT → PDF, Rice University → Assistant Professor, McGill 2019.
Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates
- Marlon Brenes (CQIQC PDF 2022-2023, PDF 2024) Quantum many-body dynamics → Lecturer, University of Costa Rica
- Finn Lasse Buessen (MITACS PDF, Physics, 2022) Quantum simulations → IonQ Canada
- Ilia Khait (CQIQC pdoc) 2020-2022 → CTO Entangled Networks → IonQ Canada
- Junjie Liu (pdoc) 2019-2021 web → Professor, Shanghai University
- Abhay Shastry (pdoc) 2018-2019 → Pdoc in Machine learning, Computer Science department, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. web
- Bijay Kumar Agarwalla (CQIQC pdoc) 2015-2017 → Associate Professor, Department of Physics, IISER Pune web
- Ed Taylor 2014-2015 (RA) web → Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (Toronto) → Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
- Manas Kulkarni, Postdoctoral Fellow 2012 → Postdoc in EE, Princeton → Assistant Prof. New York City College of Technology (CityTech CUNY) → Faculty member at ICTS Bangalore
- Savannah S. Garmon CQIQC Postdoctoral Fellow 10-2012
→ JSPS postdoctoral fellow, University of Tokyo → Assistant Prof. Osaka Prefecture University
- Malay Bandyopadhyay, Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2012
→ Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar - Yun Zhou, Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2010
→ Postdoctoral Fellow Beijing Computational Science Research Center → Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science→ Professor Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-material Science - Lianao Wu, Researcher 2008-2009
→ Ikerbasque Professor - Prof. Barbara Amaral, Universidade de Sao Paulo (2025-2026)
- Prof. Roi Baer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2023-2024)
- Lianao Wu, Ikerbasque Professor
- Prof. Gaba Hanna, University of Alberta (summer-fall 2017) web
- Prof. Manas Kulkarni, ICTS (Most renently Nov. 2017)
- Prof. Bijay K. Agarwalla, IISER Pune (May-June 2018) web
Visiting Professors