Recent and Current Graduate Students, Postdocs and Visiting Scientists

Recent and Current Graduate Students, Postdocs and Visiting Scientists


Fradkin's Group (February 2009). From the left: Eytan Grosfeld (postdoc), Bruno Uchoa (postdoc), Kai Sun (grad student), Siddartha Lal (postdoc), Babrak Seradjeh (postdoc), Benjamín Fregoso (grad student), Benjamin Hsu (grad student), Eduardo Fradkin, Lyudmila Kushnir (grad student) and Akbar Jaefari (grad student)

The group in March 2009, with Daniel Barci (extreme right) and Nayana Shah (third from the left)


Group Asado (Barbecue), Urbana, June 2012.


Group Asado (Barbecue), Urbana, May 2013: (from left to right) Rudro Biswas (postdoc), Pouyan Ghaemi (postdoc), Rodrigo Soto Garrido (graduate student), Eduardo, Claudia (not shown), Jeffrey Teo (postdoc), Xiao Chen (graduate student), Ponnuraj Krishnakumar (graduate student), Yizhi You (graduate student).


Group Asado (Barbecue), Urbana, May 2017. From left to right: Ting Tian, Peng Ye (postdoc), Kate Mayer, Hart Goldman (student), Raman Sohal (student), Saavanth Velury (student), Eugeniu Plamadeala (postdoc), Anna Dolgushina, Luiz Santos (postdoc), Sabrine Santos (not shown), Anqi Wang, Alejandro Fradkin, and Yuxuan Wang (postdoc).


My extended group in ICMT Urbana, June 3, 2016: (from left to right) Victor Chua (postdoc), Yizhi You (graduate student), Leonardo Ribeiro (visiting student from UERJ/Rio de Janeiro), Ponnuraj Krishnakumar (graduate student), Wathid Assawassunthonnet (graduate student), David Luitz (postdoc), Luiz Santos (postdoc), me, Peng Ye (postdoc), Xiao Chen (graduate student), Yuxuan Wang (postdoc), and Hitesh Changlani (postdoc).


My extended group at a socially-distant asado (barbecue) at my home on June 15, 2020: (from left to right) Aris Alexandradinata (postdoc), Marcus Rosales (graduate student), Hart Goldman (graduate student), Edwin Huang (postdoc), Shengzhu Yin (graduate student), Raman Sohal (graduate student) and Julian May-Mann (graduate student, Taylor Hughes' group).


My extended group in ICMT Urbana, March 8, 2021 (by Zoom): (from top left to bottom ) Raman Sohal (graduate student), me, Benjamin Moy (graduate student), Hart Goldman (former graduate student, now at MIT), Xiaoqi Sun (postdoc), Zemin Huang (graduate student, Mike Stone's group), Marcus Rosales (graduate student), Shengzhu Yin (graduate student), Laimei Nie (postdoc), Julian May-Mann (graduate student), Taylor Hughes' group), Junyi Cao (graduate student), Matthew O'Brien (graduate student), and Edwin Huang (postdoc).


My extended group at a "post-pandemic" asado (barbecue) at my home in Urbana on July 3, 2021: (from left to right) Aris Alexandradinata (postdoc), Julian May-Mann (graduate student, Taylor Hughes' group), Laimei Nie (postdoc), Edwin Huang (postdoc), Benjamin Moy, and Raman Sohal (graduate student). Marcus Rosales and Shengzhu Yin could not come (sorry!). Non-local members (Hart Goldman in Boston, Matthew O'Brien in Sydney, and Junyi Cao in Irvine) also could not come.


Asado (BBQ) at home with a fraction of the group, Urbana on June 27, 2022: (from left to right) Benjamin Moy (graduate student), Ben's girlfriend, Junyi Cao (graduate student), Matthew O'Brien (graduate student), Marcus Rosales (graduate student), and Laimei Nie (postdoc). Julian May-Mann (graduate student, Taylor Hughes' group), Edwin Huang (postdoc), and Shengzhu Yin could not come (sorry!).


Asado (BBQ) at home with most of the group, Urbana on June 3, 2023: (from left to right) Matthew O'Brien (graduate student), Xiaoqi Sun (postdoc), Julian May-Mann (graduate student, Taylor Hughes' group), Marcus Rosales (graduate student), Junyi Cao (graduate student), Ben's girlfriend, and Benjamin Moy. Postdocs Edwin Huang and Giuseppe De Tomasi were away.


Last updated 6/4/2023