Team

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Principal Investigator

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.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Shuaifeng Guo

Email: shuaiguo@umich.edu

Shuaifeng is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research interests include preparing and practically applying quantum states, optomechanics, and quantum devices.

PhD Students

David Engel

Email: davengel@umich.edu

David Engel is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received a B.S.E in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan. His research interests involve leveraging quantum phenomena to obtain a high degree of precision in various sensing tasks. Currently, he is focused on developing sources of squeezed light for applications in interferometry. David seeks to contribute to a new era of technological advancement by exploiting quantum mechanics to achieve better performance than is possible with classical systems.

Kareem Hariri

Deyuan Hu

Email: deyuanhu@umich.edu

Deyuan is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received a B.S. in Physics with the highest honor from University of Science and Technology of China. His research interest broadly lies in both theoretical and experimental aspects of photonics and optomechanics. He is currently looking forward to exploring more possibilities in theoretical approaches and various quantum-enhanced applications of quantum sensing technology. Outside the lab, he enjoys traveling, hiking and playing soccer.

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 the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received a B. Eng. in Precision Instrument from Tsinghua University. The principal theme of his research is dedicated to studies and development of quantum related nanophotonic devices, such as chip-based optical squeezing and quantum sensing systems on scalable platforms. Building on the fundamental physics of light-matter interactions, he is poised to explore the enabled quantum-enhanced applications that would bring sensing and communication technologies to an unprecedented level.

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 Manthamkarn is a Master’s student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He received a B. Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Kasetsart University. His research primarily involves quantum networks and machine learning. He is interested in developing a virtual quantum network, aiming to seamlessly integrate quantum technology capabilities into practical, real-world applications.

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.

Abdur-Raheem Al-Hallak

Email: abhallak@umich.edu

Abdur-Raheem is an undergraduate of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan. He is working on integrated photonic devices based on new optical materials.

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: tanays@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.