Principal Investigator:

Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 266
TEL: 765-496-0419
LAB: 765-494-0300
FAX: 765-494-0706
Email: clhung @ purdue
Contact Dr. Hung with inquiries about postdoc and graduate/undergraduate research assistant positions.
Current group members:

Xinchao Zhou
Atom-Nanophotonics
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 263
Email: zhou959 @ purdue

Sambit Banerjee
Quantum Gas
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 265
Email: banerj43 @ purdue

Rongjie Li
Quantum Gas
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 263
Email: li3926 @ purdue

Saivirinchi Prabandhakavi
Nanophotonics and fabrication
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 265
Email: spraband @ purdue

Dipanjan Das
Atom-Nanophotonics/QG
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 263
Email: das233 @ purdue

Mahmoud Moustafa
Quantum Gas
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 265
Email: mmoustaf @ purdue

Shreya JV Satya
PHYS590/Atom-Nanophotonics
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Email: sjeedig @ purdue

Kenneth Scalzi
PHYS590/Atom-Nanophotonics
PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Email: kscalzi @ purdue

Josh Friedman
OURScholar
Undergraduate student
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Austin Geddes
Undergraduate student
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The Group:






Alumni:
PhD students & Postdocs
- Hikaru Tamura (Postdoc 2020-2023)
Now: Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Molecular Science, Japan
- Tzu-Han Chang (PhD 2022 then Postdoc 2022-2023)
Now: Postdoc, OxideMEMS Lab @ Purdue ECE
- Ming Zhu (PhD 2022)
Now: Software Engineer, Google, CA
- Cheng-An Chen (PhD 2021)
Now: Senior Quantum Engineer, Atom Computing, Boulder
- Brian Fields (PhD 2021)
Now: Engineer, Opto-Atomics, CA
- May Kim (Postdoc 2016-2018)
Next: IC Postdoc Fellowship, NIST, Boulder
Now: Technical Staff, Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems at MIT Lincoln lab
Purdue undergraduate students
- 2021 Eric Liu (Physics; next → Physics PhD, Purdue University)
- 2022 Eric Reinhardt (Physics; next → Physics PhD, University of Alabama, particle physics)
- 2020 Braden Buck (Physics; Richard W. King Award in 2020; next → Physics PhD, University of Wisconsin at Madison)
- 2019 Kehan Liu (Physics; Richard W. King Award in 2019; next → ECE Master, Purdue)
- 2018 Zhuo Hann Cheah (Physics/ECE; next → Optics MS, University of Rochester)
- 2017 Bruce Edleman (Physics; Richard W. King Award in 2017; next → Physics PhD, University of Oregon)
- 2017 Wuxiucheng (Alan) Wang (ECE; next → ECE PhD, University of Rochester)
- 2016 Ting-Wei Hsu (Physics/ECE; next → Physics PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder)
Visiting students
- 2023 Kai Zhou (USTC; Next → Physics PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder in Fall 2023)
- 2023 William Alberto Gómez Guzmán (URE-Colombia-Purdue partnership, Fundación Universidad de América)
- 2022 Yuanhao Liang (Nankai University; Next → ECE PhD, USC in Fall 2023)
- 2022 Lyuhang Wu (Tsinghua University; Next → Physics PhD, Penn State University in Fall 2023)
- 2019 Yan-Cheng Wei (National Taiwan University; Next → Physics PhD, Harvard University in Fall 2021)
- 2019 Siwei Zhang (Peking University; Next → Physics PhD, Columbia University in Fall 2020)
- 2019 Wenjun Zhang (Peking University; Next → PME PhD, University of Chicago in Fall 2020 → Tsinghua U. Physics PhD)
- 2018 Yuan Zhan (Peking University; Next → Physics PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder in Fall 2019)
- 2018 Xinchao Zhou (USTC; Next → Physics PhD, Purdue University in Fall 2019)
- 2017 YuKai Lu (2017 from USTC; Next → EECS PhD, Princeton University in Fall 2018)
- 2017 Qian Wang (2017 from Peking University; Next → Physics PhD, Yale University in Fall 2018)
- 2016 Zeyang Li (2016 from Peking University; Next → Physics PhD, MIT)
Summer students
- 2024 Beny Verezub (REU, Lake Forest College, IL)
- 2024 Joseph Carpenter (REU, Lawrence University, WI)
- 2023 Bennett Hughes (REU, Ohio State University)
- 2023 Umar Arshad (SURF, Miami University, OH)
- 2022 Alan Yu-Fan Hsiao (REU, University of Texas at Austin)
- 2021 Will Ward (REU, University of Central Arkansas)
- 2019 Joey He (REU, University of Chicago)
- 2018 Kevin Knox (REU, SUNY - Oneonta; Next → Physics PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- 2017 Daniel Orth (REU, 2017, University of Dallas)
- 2016 Jonah Quirk (REU, University of Southern Indiana; Next → Physics PhD, Purdue University)
- 2015 Angela Pizzuto (REU, Stony Brook University; Next → Physics PhD, Brown University)