Graduate Students
Xiaoyu Ma
Xiaoyu Ma earned his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Peking University in 2013, and B.A. in Economics (double Major) from National School of Development at Peking University. He then received his M.S. in Chemical Engineering at University of Notre Dame in 2014. He was a visiting scholar at Los Alamos National Lab (summer 2016 & 2017), and interned at IBM Zurich Research Lab (summer 2018).More recently, he has been a research intern at Quantum Architectures and Computation (QuArC) group at Microsoft Research (summer 2019) and at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, NY (fall 2019).
He currently is a 5th year Ph.D. student in condensed matter physics at University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on theoretical modeling and numerical simulation of physics systems, including superconducting vortices, magnetic skyrmions, superconducting tunneling junctions, topological qubits, and colloidal nanoparticles.
Personal webpage: sites.google.com/view/xiaoyu-ma/home
Email: xiaoyu.ma.35@nd.edu
Wenzhao Li
Wenzhao finished his undergraduate degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015. He then joined the physics department at the University of Notre Dame. In 2017, he spent half a year at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) as a research assistant. He also interned with Facebook as a software engineer and data scientist in 2019. He is currently a 5th year Ph.D. student and his research focuses on numerical simulation for superconducting vortex system and large scale computing.
Personal webpage: www.wenzhaoli.com
Email: wenzhao.li.247@nd.edu
Shubin Zhang
Shubin Zhang did his undergraduate studies in Physics at Sichuan University in China from 2009 to 2013. He then earned his Master degree at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2016. Currently, he is a PhD student at University of Notre Dame. His main research interests include semiconductor-based optical cooling, electronic and optical properties of halide perovskite nanocrystals.
Email: szhang14@nd.edu
Francesco Mattiotti
Francesco Mattiotti did his undergraduate studies in physics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia (Italy). He then earned his Master of Science at the same University in 2016. This was followed by a Research Fellowship working with Fausto Borgonovi. In 2017 he enrolled to the International Doctoral Program in Science on a joint project between Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and University of Notre Dame about Cooperative effects in quantum systems. His supervisors are G. Luca Celardo, Fausto Borgonovi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) and Boldizsar Janko (University of Notre Dame). Currently he is working on a project about superfluorescence from perovskite nanocrystal superlattices.
Personal webpage: dmf.unicatt.it/~fmatt91
Email: fmattiot@nd.edu
Google Scholar – ResearchGate – ORCiD
Sushrut Ghonge
Sushrut graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India in June 2017. He was a staff researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Network Science and Applications (iCeNSA) at the University of Notre Dame, before joining our group for his PhD in Physics.
He likes to study the emergence of behavior of a collection of particles from fundamental laws and inferring microscopic laws from observations of collective phenomena. See his webpage for more information about his research.
Personal webpage: sushrutghonge.com
Email: sghonge@nd.edu
Google Scholar – ResearchGate – ORCiD
Undergraduate Students
Lihao Yan
Lihao Yan is an undergraduate student double major in physics and philosophy of the Class of 2021. In physics, Lihao is interested in complex systems like materials and quantum many-body systems; in philosophy, Lihao is also interested in complex systems like ethics and political philosophy. Lihao joined Prof. Janko’s group in Fall 2019. He has been working on the vortex project with Wenzhao Li and Xiaoyu Ma ever since.
Email: lyan4@nd.edu
David Engel
David Engel in an REU student, visiting from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is an Engineering Physics major, and is working on superfluorescence in lead halide perovskites.