Shuo Sun
Ngan
Frankie obtained his BS from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2020, and subsequently joined the Sun Group as a Physics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Frankie did his undergraduate research in the Wang Lab (CUHK) on "High Field Imaging of NaRb Molecules". He also spent the summers working in the Gadway Lab at UIUC on "Counter-diabatic Control on Momentum State Transfers", and in the Bernien Lab at the University of Chicago on "Optical Tweezers Generation".
Zhan
Yuan obtained his BS from Peking University in 2019, and subsequently joined the Sun Group as a Physics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. His undergraduate research mainly focused on theoretical and experimental studies of quantum simulation with cold atoms in shaken optical lattices. He is currently interested in light-matter interactions in nanophotonic systems, generation of highly-entangled states and their applications in quantum communication and quantum computation.
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