People

Dr. Kirk W. Madison, Principal Investigator

Staff

Dr. James Booth

Visiting scientist (BCIT)

PAT

Dr. Jared Rivera

Post-doc

RADMOL

Kais Jooya

Visiting scientist

PAT

Graduate Students

Wolfgang Klassen

PhD

TUCAN

Avinash Deshmukh

PhD

PAT

Louis Croquette

PhD

RADMOL

Felix Klose

MASc

MOL

Boyan Yu

PhD

MOL

Josh Collesso

MASc

MOL

Jai Pahar

MSc

RADMOL

Zachary Kokot

MSc

RADMOL

Enzo Conceição Picinini

MSc

MOL

Undergraduate Students

Nicolas Folk

NSERC USRA

PAT

Atharv Bhalerao

EnSURE Fellowship

PAT

Kamran Kermani

MAT & RADMOL

Kevin Chen

PHYS 449 Honours Thesis

Group photo fall 2026
Fall 2026 — Front row (left to right): Avinash Deshmukh, Josh Collesso, Kevin Chen, Enzo Conceição Picinini, Kais Jooya; Second row (left to right): Jai Parhar, Nicolas Folk, Kamran Kermani, Boyan Yu; Back row (left to right): Felix Klose, Kirk W. Madison, Jared Rivera, Zachary Kokot. Not pictured: Wolfgang Klassen, Louis Croquette, Atharv Bhalerao, James Booth.

Alumni

Minjune Kim

Undergraduate student — PHYS449 Honours Thesis (2025)

Software Engineer at AIRS Inc, Daegu, South Korea

Klervi Muzzin

Visiting MSc student from École normale supérieure (2025)

Neil Jadav

Undergraduate student (2025)

MSc student in the Jones group at UBC, Vancouver

Laura Steiert

Undergraduate student (2025)

Lukas Eisenberg

Undergraduate student (2025)

Erik Frieling

PhD (2024)

Quantum Physicist at Nomad Atomics, Melbourne, Australia

Elektra Dakogiannis

Undergraduate student (2024)

Léa Camier

Visiting MSc student from Université Paris-Saclay (2024)

Sudhang Varshney

MSc (2023)

Analyst at Goldman Sachs, Bengaluru, India

Perrin Waldock

MASc (2023)

Software Developer at Kardium, Vancouver

Riley Stewart

MSc (2023)

PhD student in the Semenoff group at UBC, Vancouver

Denis Uhland

MSc (2023)

PhD student at the Leibnitz Universität, Hannover, Germany

Pinrui Shen

PhD (2022)

Senior scientist at Quantum Valley Ideas Lab, Waterloo

Rachel Wang

MSc (2022)

Sukhman Singh

Undergraduate Student (2022)

Siddharth Gautam

MITACS Globalink Research Internship (2021)

Jonah Berean-Dutcher

Undergraduate Student (2019)

Yue Shen

MSc (2018)

Adrian Lake

Undergraduate Student (2018)

Shi Jing Yu

MSc (2017)

Will Gunton

PhD (2016)

Corneliu Malciu

Research Internship (2016)

Kahan McAffer Dare

MSc (2016)

Steve Novakov

Undergraduate student — APSC459 (2015)

Mariusz Semczuk

PhD (2015)

Jeff Taylor

Undergraduate student — APSC459 (2015)

William J. Bowden

MSc (2014)

Fumiei Kobayashi

Undergraduate student — PHYS449 Honours Thesis (2014)

Jeff Burton

Undergraduate student — APSC459 Project (2013)

Forrest Paul

Undergraduate student — APSC459 Project (2013)

Blake Raymond

Undergraduate student — APSC459 Project (2013)

Victor Barua

Undergraduate student — FOGS USRA (2013)

Glenn McGuinness

Undergraduate student (2013)

Adrien Cavaillès

Visiting MSc student from ENS Paris-Saclay (2013)

PhD at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel then Machine Learning Engineer at LightOn, Bordeaux, France

Janelle Van Dongen

PhD (2013)

Lab technician at UBC, Vancouver

Kais Jooya

Undergraduate student (2013)

Thomas Robert Prescott

Undergraduate student — PHYS449 Honours Thesis (2013)

Julien Witz

Visiting MSc student from École polytechnique, Palaiseau (2012)

Director, Customer & Digital Experience at Motorola Solutions, Vancouver

Nam Musterer

Undergraduate student — PHYS449 Honours Thesis (2012)

Magnus Haw

Undergraduate student — PHYS449 Honours Thesis (2012)

Kyle Boone

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2012)

Alec Douglas

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2012)

Alysson Vrielink

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2012)

Damien Quentin

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2012)

Jon-Paul Sun

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2012)

Brendan Mulholland

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2012)

Daniel Da Costa

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2012)

Calvin Childs

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis (2011)

Paul Joseph Godin

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis

Nathan Evetts

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis

Joshua Wienands

Undergraduate student — PHYS 349 Project (2011)

Dallas Clement

Undergraduate student — PHYS 349 Project (2011)

Gabriel Dufour

Visiting MSc student from École Normale Supérieure (2010)

Associate Professor at University of Freiburg

Ian Moult

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2010)

Weiqi Wang

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2010)

Haotian Pang

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2010)

Chenchong Zhu

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis (2010)

Jonathan Johannes

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis (2010)

Dan Crawford

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2010)

Taylor Dean

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2010)

Davis Holmes

Vising BSc student from Queen’s University (2009)

Theo Rybarczyk

Visiting student (2009)

Alan Robinson

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis (2009)

Pavle Djuricanin

Undergraduate student (2009)

David Fagnan

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis (2009)

Anthony Siu

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2009)

Bill Zhang

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2009)

Troy Barrie

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2009)

Greg Davis

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2009)

Keith Ladouceur

MSc (2008)

Ray Meng Gao

Undergraduate student — PHYS 449 Honours Thesis (2008)

Davey Mitchell

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2008)

Paul Lebel

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2008)

Aviv Keshet

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2007)

Peter Eugster

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2007)

Paul Bloudoff

Undergraduate student — APSC 479 Project (2007)

Nina Rauhut

Visiting BSc student from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (2007)

Bastian Schuster

Visiting BSc student from Universität Konstanz (2007)

Eric Bakke

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2007)

Peter Chen

Undergraduate student — APSC 459 Project (2007)

Swati Singh

MSc (2007)

Sanaz Fotoohi

PhD (2006)

Friedrich Kirchner

Undergraduate student — PHYS 349 Project (2006)

Tao Kong

MSc (2006)

Raymond Gao

Co-op student (2005)

Jordan Baglo

NSERC USRA (2004)