Principle Investigator
Ran Cheng
Associate Professor, University of California, Riverside, 2025-Present
Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside, 2018-2025
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014-2018
Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014
B.S. in Applied Physics (with honor), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2008
Full CV is here.
Postdoc
Kuangyin Deng, Dr.
Joined UCR as postdoc in 09/2023
Postdoc fellow, Boston College
Ph.D. in Physics, Virginia Tech
PhD Students
Fan Lu
B.S. in Physics, SYSU
Visiting Students
Boula Etans (Martin Luther King High School)
Summer Internship @ UCR, 06/2024 - 09/2024
Rohit Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Cornell University)
Academic Visit @ UCR, 12/2023
Ross Knapman (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Summer Research @ UCR, 07/2023 - 08/2023
Alumni
Hantao Zhang (PhD student, ECE @ UCR, 09/2019 - 09/2025)
-> Postdoc @ National Institute of Standards and Technology
Junyu Shawn Tang (PhD student, Physics @ UCR, 01/2020 - 09/2025)
-> Postdoc @ Peking University
Mingda Guo (PhD student, Physics @ UCR, 09/2018 - 06/2024)
-> Large Model Developer @ Inspur
Yuhang Li (Postdoc, ECE @ UCR, 01/2019 - 08/2023)
-> Associate Professor of Physics @ Nankai University
Cameron Chevalier (Summer research, ECE @ UCR, 2019)