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Team
Principal Investigator
Zheshen Zhang
Zheshen Zhang is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Zhang received a PhD degree from Georgia Tech in 2011 and a BS degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006. Prior to joining Michigan as an Associate Professor in 2022, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona (2017-2022), a Research Scientist at MIT (2015-2017), and a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT (2012-2015). Dr. Zhang’s research encompasses a broad swath of the experimental and theoretical aspects of quantum networks, quantum communications, quantum sensing, and quantum computing. Dr. Zhang received an NSF CAREER Award in 2022 for his work on quantum machine learning. He is currently an Editorial Board Member of Communications Physics, Nature Portfolio and an Editor of Progress in Quantum Electronics, Elsevier.
Research Scientist
Shuai Liu
Email: shualiu@umich.edu
Shuai Liu is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Shuai specializes in nanofabrication and is investigating quantum information processing in scalable platforms.
PhD Students
David Engel
Email: davengel@umich.edu
David is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received a B.S. in Physics from University of Michigan.
Kareem Hariri
Email: hariri@umich.edu
Kareem is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received a B.S. in Physics with a Minor in Mathematics from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and a M.S in Material Science and Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
His research primarily involves investigating the technological capabilities enabled by quantum resources, specifically squeezed and entangled light, for various applications in optical metrology and communication. With the guidance and support of Professor Zhang, Kareem has determined to make significant progress in addressing the scientific and engineering challenges related to the commercialization of quantum technologies.
Deyuan Hu
Email: deyuanhu@umich.edu
Deyuan is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received a B.S. in Physics from University of Science and Technology of China.
William Ward
Email: wardw@umich.edu
William Ward is a PhD student in the department of Applied Physics at the University of Michigan. He received a B.Eng. in Engineering Physics from McMaster University. His research primarily involves information processing and transmission tasks enhanced by quantum resources, such as entanglement. He is currently exploring quantum transduction architectures that could take advantage of quantum resources. Liam is interested in developing modular quantum-enhanced information processing technology to enable the quantum-enhanced information age.
Yuheng Zhang
Email: yuhengz@umich.edu
Yuheng is a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received a B.S. in Precision Metrology from Tsinghua University.
Kailu Zhou
Email: klzhou@umich.edu
Kailu is a PhD student in Electrical and computer Engineering. He received a B. Eng in Information Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research primarily involves quantum-enhanced communication and information processing. He is also interested in soliton microcomb and comb-based applications.
Master’s Students
Visuttha Manthamkarn
Email: visuttha@umich.edu
Visuttha is a Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Michigan. He is currently pursuing research on quantum networks and machine learning.
Undergraduate Students
Jason Banish
Email: banishj@umich.edu
Jason is an undergraduate Engineering Physics student at University of Michigan. He is currently developing electronic control units in support of the experiments in the Quantum Engineering Lab.
Keating Dinsmore
Email: dinsmork@umich.edu
Keating is an undergraduate student at College of Engineering of University of Michigan. She is currently an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) student pursuing research on developing quantum-limited detectors.
Finn Moore
Email: fdm@umich.edu
Finn is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Engineering at University of Michigan. Finn is a UROP student investigating FPGA units for photonics experiments.
Tanay Sharma
Email: fdm@umich.edu
Tanay is an undergraduate student at College of Engineering of University of Michigan. Tanay is a UROP student currently working with integrated quantum chips.