Principal Investigator:

Chen-Lung Hung (CV)

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:

Ahreum Lee

Atom-Nanophotonics

Postdoc
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Office: PHYS 275-A
Email: lee6007 @ purdue
LinkedIn: ahreum-lee

 

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

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

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

Mingi Kim

Quantum Gas

PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Email: kim4082 @ purdue

Divyansh Rathore

Atom-Nanophotonics

PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Email: rathored @ purdue

Daniel Lin

PHYS 590/Quantum Gas

PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Email: lin2297 @ purdue

Xiaoyang Gao

PHYS 590

PhD student
Department of Physics and Astronomy

Email: gao816 @ purdue

The Group:

DAMOP (Providence, RI) 2026

May 2026

July 2025

July 2024

July 2023

August 2022

July 2021

August 2018

July 2016

Alumni:

PhD students & Postdocs

• Xinchao Zhou (PhD 2025)
  Now: Postdoc, Lodahl group @ University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• Sambit Banerjee (PhD 2025)
  Now: Quantum Engineer, Atom Computing, Boulder, CO

• 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, CO

• Brian Fields (PhD 2021) 
  Now: Engineer, Infleqtion, Boulder, CO

• 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

• 2026 Austin Geddes (Physics; next → Master of Quantun Engineering, University of Chicago)
• 2025 Josh Friedman (Physics; next → Physics PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder)
• 2022 Eric Reinhardt (Physics; next → Physics PhD, University of Alabama, particle physics)
• 2021 Eric Liu (Physics; next → Physics PhD, Purdue University)
• 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

• 2025 Henry Hsu (National Taiwan University; Next → Physics PhD, Purdue University in Fall 2026)
• 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

• 2026 Khanh Mai (SURF, University of Southern Florida, FL)
• 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)