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
Postdoc
Kuangyin Deng, Dr.
Joined UCR as postdoc in 09/2023
Postdoc fellow, Boston College 2021 - 2023
Ph.D. in Physics, Virginia Tech, 2021
PhD Students
Paul Rutherford
2026 - Present
Yang Liu
2025 - Present
Benjamin Snitzer
2025 - Present
Fan Lu
2023 - Present (From 07/2025, co-supervised with Sinisa Coh)
Alumni
(In inverse chronological order)
Junyu Shawn Tang (PhD student, Physics @ UCR, 01/2020 - 09/2025)
-> Postdoc @ Peking University
Hantao Zhang (PhD student, ECE @ UCR, 09/2019 - 09/2025)
-> Postdoc @ National Institute of Standards and Technolog
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)
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