People

The people behind the experiments.

The lab's current team carries forward the UMass Amherst chapter as we build a new research community in Toronto.

Principal investigator

Chen Wang

Associate Professor

Experimental quantum information science. B.S. Physics, Peking University, 2006; Ph.D. Physics, Cornell University, 2012; postdoctoral associate, Yale University, 2012-2016.

chen.wang@utoronto.ca | MP1023B | 416-946-5858

Current members

Postdoctoral scholars

Baojie Liu

Research Scientist

Sean van Geldern

Postdoctoral Associate

Graduate students

Tanvir Masum

Graduate student

Hanzhe Xi

Graduate student

Zetong Zhuang

Graduate student

Manthan Badbaria

Graduate student

Carlos Sanchez Cruz

Graduate student

Layla Saraj

Graduate student

Undergraduate students

Ian Dong

Undergraduate student

Berke Basak

Undergraduate student

David Gao

Undergraduate student

Alumni

A growing scientific family.

Former graduate students

Jeffrey Gertler

MIT Lincoln Lab

Ebru Dogan

Google Quantum AI

Dario Rosenstock

Google Quantum AI

Yingying Wang

Juliang Guangqi

Shruti Shirol

Q-CTRL

Former postdoctoral associates

Xiaowei Deng

SUSTC

Juliang Li

Fermilab

Loick Le Guevel

Google Quantum AI

Former undergraduate students

James Smith

Thomas Connolly

Yale Applied Physics

Jonathan Powers

Darrel Workman

Michael Maxwell

Quantum Circuits Inc.

Joshua Carey

Alexander Shilcusky

Northeastern Physics

Nathan Hall

Northeastern Physics

Maxwell Poster

UT Austin EE

Tal Sheffer

Yale Applied Physics

Charlie Veihmeyer

UC Berkeley Physics

Ben Kuchma

MIT Physics

Alison Irwin

UMass Chan Medical School

Jiayi Sun

Stanford Applied Physics

Connor Casey

Isaac Pelenur

Group history

From our first chapter to the next.

These photographs document the people and shared work that brought the lab to Toronto.

Group photo outside the lab building, 2026.