Current and Former PhD Students

• Zehan Li (PhD 2021)
  
• Lijun Lang (exchange student from Inst of Physics, Beijing; to start at Pitt on March 1, 2013)
  
• Xiaopeng Li (PhD Aug 2013. KITP Santa Barbara Grad Fellow, Spring term 2013; JQI Postdoc Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2013-16; Associate Professor, Fudan University, China, 2016)
• Jin-Long Yu (exchange PhD student from Tsinghua University, China;  at Pitt Feb 1, 2013 -- July 23, 2013)
• Zixu Zhang (PhD 2012. Now a physicist in finance, Morgan-Stanley, Beijing Branch)
  
• Vladimir M. Stojanovic  (advisor for his 2008 PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University. Was postdoc at U of Basel, Switzerland. Now a Swiss NSF Fellow and postdoc at Harvard physics.)

Current and Former Postdocs

• Amit Bhoonah, Dec 2022 --,  Fellow of IQ Initiative and Affiliated postdoc of our group (Dr. Bhoonah received PhD in 2021 from Queens University; postdoc in Colorado State Univ from 2021-2022)
  

• Sayan Choudury, Sep 2019 -- Sep 2022 (Dr. Choudhury received PhD in 2017 from Cornell Univ; first postdoc in Purdue from 2017-2019). Now Reader in Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India
• Haiping HU,  Sep 2018 -- 2021  (Joint postdoc with GMU. Dr. Hu received PhD from Inst of Physics Beijing 2016). Now faculty in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2021 --
  
• Biao Huang, September 2016--2019  (Dr. Huang received PhD in 2016 from Ohio State University. Research Scientist in Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (MPIPKS)) 2019-2021. Assistant Professor in Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences (KITS), UCAS, Beijing China, 2021 --
  
• Jian-Song Pan, Sep 2017 -- Nov 2019 (PhD, USTC China 2017. Joint postdoc with WQC Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  
• Ahmet Keles, Sep 2014 -- 2019  (Joint postdoc with GMU. Dr. Keles received PhD from University of Washington, Seattle in 2014)
• Haiyuan Zou, July 2014 -- Aug 2017   (Dr. Zou received PhD from University of Iowa in 2014. Now postdoc fellow in TD Lee Institute, Shanghai, China)
• Maksims "Max" Arzamasovs, Nov 2014 --   (Dr. Arzamasovs received PhD in 2014 from University of Birmingham, UK)
• Bo LIU, Feb 2013 -- 2016   (Dr. Liu received PhD from Peking University, China in 2013. Now Full Professor in Xi'An Jiao Tong University, China since 2016.)
• Zhifang XU, Nov 2013-- April 2015 (Dr. Xu received PhD in 2009 from Tsinghua U; postdoc with Prof. Masahito Ueda, U of Tokyo before joining Pitt. Moved to Huazhong Univ of Science & Tech in China as Full Professor in 2015.)
  
• Zhenyu ZHOU, Sep 2013 -- May 2015 (Dr. Zhou received PhD from Washington Univ in St Louis; He is a visiting scholar at Pitt/joint PostDoc with Prof. Erhai Zhao, George Mason U, Fairfax, VA).
• Chungwei Lin, 2008-2011 in Pitt (Dr. Lin received PhD, 2008, Columbia University. Now postdoc at U of Texas at Austin)
  
• Erhai Zhao, Sep 2007-Aug 2009 in Pitt (Dr. Zhao received PhD, 2005, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; was postdoc associate in University of Toronto before coming to Pitt. Became Assistant Professor of physics (2009) and Associate Professor (2015) at George Mason University)

Other students 

• Hsiang-Hsuan Hung, a graduate student under "Directed Study" from May 2007--June 2008. Was a postdoc at UIUC; Now a postdoc at UT Austin)
  
• Chiu Man Ho, PhD, 2007, Univ Pittsburgh.  (Dr. Ho was a cosmology/particle physics graduate with broad interest in condensed matter theory. He was a postdoc fellow at University of California Berkeley. Now at Vanderbilt University.)