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Randy Kamien [cv]
(he/him/his)
Professor

B.S., M.S., California Institute of Technology (1988)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1992)
Office: 2N26, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
Phone: +1.215.898.5940
kamien at physics dot upenn dot edu
departmental homepage

Suman Kulkarni
(she/her/hers)
Graduate Student (with Dani S. Bassett)

B.S.-M.S., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune(2021)
Office: 2N12, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
email

Lauren Niu
(she/her/hers)
Senior Research Scientist

B.S., California Institute of Technology (2015)
Ph.D., Harvard University (2023)
Office: Pennsylvania Fabric Discovery Center
personal homepage

Paul Severino
(he/him/his)
Graduate Student

B.A., University of Chicago (2021)
Office: 2N12, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
email

Yvonne Zagzag
(she/her/hers)
Graduate Student

B.S., New York University (2019)
Office: 2N12, David Rittenhouse Laboratory
email

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Hillel Aharoni Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at the Weizmann Institute B.Sc., Hebrew University (2006) M.Sc., Hebrew University (2009) Ph.D., Hebrew University (2015) email personal homepage	Gareth Alexander Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of Warwick M.Phys., University of Oxford (2003) D.Phil., University of Oxford (2008) personal homepage	Helen Ansell (she/her/hers) Former Graduate Student now Postdoc at Emory University M.Sci., University of Birmingham (2016) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2021) email
Natalie Arkus Former Postdoctoral Fellow B.A., Barnard College (2003) M.S., Columbia University (2004) S.M., Harvard University (2005) Ph.D., Harvard University (2009) email personal homepage	Daria Atkinson (she/her or they/them) Former Postdoctoral Fellow B.A., Carleton College (2015) Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2020) email	Daniel Beller Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Johns Hopkins University B.S., B.A., Brandeis University, (2010) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, (2014) email personal homepage
Igor Bluestein Former Graduate Student now Software Engineer at Siemens M.S., Voronezh University, Russia (1986) M.S., Florida International University (1996) email	Toen Castle Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at La Trobe University B.Sc., University of New England, Australia (2001) Ph.D., Australian National University (2013) email personal homepage	Nandita Chaturvedi (she/her/hers) Former Graduate Student now Postdoc at NCBS Bangalore M.Sc., Universitat zu Koln (2015) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2020) email
Bryan Gin-ge Chen Former Graduate Student A.B., A.M., Harvard University (2007) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2012) email personal homepage	Yigil Cho Former Postdoctoral Fellow now at Samsung B.S., Seoul National University, Korea (2005) Ph.D., Seoul National University, Korea (2012) email	Justin Cohen (he/him/his) Former Undergraduate Student now at Goldman Sachs B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2022) email
Simon Čopar Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of Ljubljana M.Sc., Universiy of Ljubljana (2009) Ph.D., Universiy of Ljubljana (2012) email	Brian DiDonna Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Software Engineer at Stellar Science B.S., Stanford University (1994) M.S., University of Chicago (2000) Ph.D., University of Chicago (2001) email	Cleverson Filguieras Former Visiting Graduate Student now Faculty at Universidade Federal da Campina Grande Ph.D., Universidade Federal de Paraíba (2009) email
Greg Grason (he/him/his) Former Graduate Student now Faculty at University of Massachusetts, Amherst B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2000) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2002) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2005) email personal homepage	Mohamed Gharbi Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at UMass Boston M.S., Universiy of Tunis (2008) Ph.D., University of Montpellier II (2011) email personal homepage	Vianney Gimenez-Pinto Former Visiting Scholar now Faculy at Haverford College B.S., University of Carabobo, Venezuela (2007) Ph.D., Kent State University (2014) email
Xingting Gong Former Undergraduate Student now at Alphabet B.A., University of Pennsylvania (2015) Ph.D., Stanford University (2022) email	Eric Horsley Former Graduate Student now at Haynes Boone B.S., University of Texas, Austin (2014) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2019) J.D., Duke University (2022)	Ana Hočevar Former Visiting Student now at The Data Incubator B.Sc. University of Ljubljana (2007) M.S., University of Ljubljana (2009) Ph.D., University of Ljubljana (2012) email personal homepage
David King (he/him/his) Former Postdoctoral Fellow now at UC Berkeley B.A., University of Cambridge (2016) M.Sci., University of Cambridge (2017) Ph.D., University of Cambridge (2021)	William Kung Former Graduate Student now Staff at Northwestern University B.S., California Institute of Technology (1999) Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (2004) email personal homepage	Andy Lau Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Florida Atlantic University B.S., University of California, Davis (1994) M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara (1998) Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (2000) email personal homepage
Max Lavrentovich Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Worcester State University B.A., Kenyon College (2008) Ph.D., Harvard University (2014) email personal homepage	Alex Levine Former Postdoctoral Fellow B.S., University of California, Los Angeles (1989) M.S., University of California, Los Angeles (1990) Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (1996) email personal homepage	Thomas Machon Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Bristol M.Phys., University of Warwick (2011) M.Sc., University of Warwick (2013) Ph.D., University of Warwick (2016) email personal homepage
Sonia Mahmoudi (she/her/hers) Former Research Assistant Professor now Faculty at Tohoku University B.S., M.S., IMT Mines Alès (2015) Ph.D., Tohoku University (2022) personal homepage	Sabetta Matsumoto Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Georgia Tech B.A., M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2007) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2011) email personal homepage	Carl Modes Former Graduate Student now Group Leader at MPI Dresden A.B., Princeton University (2002) Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (2008) email personal homepage
Ricardo Mosna Former Visiting Professor Ph.D., Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2004) email personal homepage	Chris Santangelo (he/him/his) Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Syracuse University B.A., Cornell University (1997) Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara (2004) email personal homepage	Radmila Sazdanović Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at North Carolina State University Ph.D., George Washington University (2010) email personal homepage
Francesca Serra Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Southern Denmark University B.Sci., Università degli Studi di Parma (2003) M.Sci., Università degli Studi di Parma (2006) Ph.D., University of Cambridge (2010) email personal homepage	Olivia Snir Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Oregon Health & Science University B.S., Fordham University (2004) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2006) M.D., University of Pennsylvania (2013) personal homepage	Yehuda Snir Former Graduate Student now at Princeton Consulting B.S., Carnegie Mellon University (2001) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2006) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2007)
Daniel Sussman (he/him/his) Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Emory University B.A., Williams College (2007) Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2012) email personal homepage	Michael Tanis Former Artist in Residence B.A., Connecticut College (2000) M.S., Drexel University (2015) email personal homepage	Lisa Tran (she/her/hers) Former Graduate Student now Faculty at Utrecht University B.A., New York University (2012) M.S., University of Pennsylvania (2015) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2018) email personal homepage
Mario Triantafillou Former Graduate Student now at NewOak Capital Sc.B., Brown University (1993) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2000)	Vincenzo Vitelli Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at University of Chicago B.Sc., Imperial College London (1997) Ph.D., Harvard University (2005) email personal homepage	Xinyu Wang Former Visiting Graduate Student now Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Michigan B.S., Southeast University (China) (2015) Ph.D., Southeast University (China) (2021) email
Primoz Ziherl Former Postdoctoral Fellow now Faculty at Institut Jožef Stefan and University of Ljubljana B.S., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (1992) Ph.D., University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (1998) email personal homepage

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