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)