cleland lab members

cleland group

gustav andersson

Gustav holds MSc degrees in physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and TU Munich. He completed his PhD at Chalmers University of Technology working on superconducting quantum circuits coupled to surface acoustic waves in 2020 and joined the Cleland lab as a postdoc in 2021.

sasha anferov

Sasha received his BS in applied physics from Caltech in 2017, where he worked on parametric amplifiers in Oskar Painter's lab. After completing his PhD in physics at the University of Chicago studying millimeter-wave superconducting quantum devices with Prof. David Schuster, he joined the Cleland lab in 2024.

andrew n cleland

Andrew Cleland received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1991. He was employed from 1991 to 1993 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Centre d'Etudes-Orme des Merisiers in Saclay, France. He then worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Caltech until 1997, when he moved to UC Santa Barbara. In 2015 he joined the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago as the John A. MacLean Sr. Professor for Molecular Engineering, Innovation, and Enterprise. He is also the Director of the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility and a Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.

Andrew Cleland's research is presently focused on three areas of research: the application of superconducting circuits to quantum information, including both computation and communication; the development of nanoscale devices integrating electronic, mechanical, and optical fields, targeting quantum control and quantum measurement of mechanical, spin and optical degrees of freedom.

chris conner

Chris received his BS in physics from UC Santa Barbara in 2017, where he worked on microfluidics research in the lab of Sumita Pennathur. He then came to the University of Chicago where he is currently pursuing a PhD at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering in Professor Cleland's lab. His research work is focused on novel uses for superconducting qubits.

yash joshi

Yash joined the Cleland group in September of 2020. Yash received his BS and MS degrees from the Indian Institute for Science Education and Research — Pune in 2020. As a part of his masters thesis, he worked in the lab of Tobias Kippenberg at EPFL Switzerland on optical readout of a circuit electromechanical system. His recreational interests include swimming, chess and skiing.

shiheng li

Shiheng received his B.S. in Physics and B.A. in German from UC Santa Barbara in 2023, where he worked in the biophysics lab of Omar Saleh on developing tracking algorithms for magnetic tweezer experiments. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Chicago. He joined the Cleland group in 2023..

jacob miller

Jacob received his B.S. in Physics from UC Santa Barbara in 2021, where he worked in the lab of Ben Mazin on developing new control and data-processing techniques for microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Chicago. He joined the Cleland group in 2022.

rhys povey

Rhys received his BSc and MS in physics from the University of Western Australia working on microwave cavity experiments searching for dark photons. Following that he came to the University of Chicago to pursue his PhD and, after a brief stint in high energy physics, joined Cleland's lab. His research is focused on quantum communication with optomechanical crystals.

hong qiao

Hong joined the Cleland group in 2021. He received his BS in Physics from Peking University in 2019, where he worked on quantum information theory under the supervision of Prof. Qiongyi He and Prof. Heng Fan. He also had two-year research experience in experimental quantum optics and atomic physics. He is currently pursuing a PhD in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. His research interests are superconducting qubits and quantum acoustics.

xuntao wu

Xuntao received his BS in Physics from Nanjing University in 2021, where he worked on gate design for superconducting qubits in Prof. Yang Yu's lab. He also has research experience in dissipative quantum information science and experimental solid-state spin systems. His research interests mainly focus on quantum information and modular quantum computing architectures.

haoxiong yan

Haoxiong received his B.S. in Physics and a minor in Mathematics from Peking University in 2019. He used to work on tunable coupler for superconducting qubits in Prof. Luyan Sun's Lab at Tsinghua University. He also spent several months studying some non-equilibrium physics under the guidance of Prof. Paola Cappellaro at MIT. He is now pursuing a PhD in The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at UChicago. In Cleland group, he mainly focuses on quantum communication with superconducting qubits.