Chris Anderson (he/him)
Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
By courtesy, Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Materials Research Laboratory, and the Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab.
Senior Personnel, Hybrid Quantum Networks and Architectures
Awards and Honors:
2026: James P. Gordon Memorial Speakership
2025: DARPA Young Faculty Award
2025: National Academy of Engineering FOE
2025: Coherent Block Gift Award
2025: AFOSR Young Investigator Award
2025: NSF CAREER Award
2024: Google Academic Research Award
2022: Quantum Creators Prize
Graduate Students
Santiago Vargas-Daniels
Graduate College Doctoral Merit and Sloan fellow. Physics Ph.D. student. (He/Him)
Nathaniel Irwin
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow. Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student. (He/Him)
Victor Williams
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. student. (He/Him)
Seongjin Lee
Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student. (He/Him)
Jason (Shangqing) Huang
Physics Ph.D. student. (He/Him)
Yuvraj Misra
Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student. (He/Him)
Vivedha Sivakumar
Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. student. (She/Her)
Anastasiya Osher
Hamer Fellow. Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. student. (She/Her)
Claudia Chen
Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. student. (She/Her)
Jenny Xue
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. student. (She/Her)
Postdocs
Dapeng Ding
Materials Science and Engineering postdoctoral researcher. (He/Him)
Undergraduates
Chenxi Zhang
Electrical and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Student. (She/Her)
River Chen
Physics Undergraduate Student. (He/Him)
Deepak Kuncha
Physics Undergraduate Student. (He/Him)
Miriya Joseph
Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Student. (She/Her)
Landon Wrigley
Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Student. (He/Him)
Botong Liu
Physics Undergraduate Student. (He/Him)
Gary Zhang
Materials Science and Engineering Undergraduate Student. (He/Him)
Jack Johnson
Physics Undergraduate Student. (He/Him)
Group Photos
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Summer 2024:
Alumni
Garrett Williams (Graduate research assistant, graduated 2025, Quantinuum)
Morgan Anderson (Undergraduate researcher, graduated 2025, Master’s Student in Applied Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Washington)
Joel Ruzindana (OQI fellow 2024, University of Arkansas Pine Bluff)