PI
Post docs
Xi Xing
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Experimental
xxing@princeton.edu
Research interests include ultrafast laser chemistry, adaptive control of molecular fragmentation, molecular spectroscopy and dynamics, chemical detection with mass spectrometry.
Alexei Goun
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Experimental & Theoretical
agoun@princeton.edu
Research interests include selective optical control of biological functions, coherent optogenetics and creation of new materials utilizing ultrafast laser pulses.
Renan Cabrera
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Theoretical
rcabrera@princeton.edu
Research interests include generation of unitary operators, robust control, quantum-classical transition and graphics processing unit (GPU) computation.
Research Scholar
Tak-San Ho
Dr / Research Scholar, Theoretical
tsho@princeton.edu
Research interests include quantum optimal controls of closed and open quantum systems, atoms and molecules in intense laser fields, photo-association processes, electron transfer in nano-scale quantum devices, atomic and molecular scattering theory, inverse problems and computational methods for time-dependent quantum problems.
Denys Bondar
Associate Research Scholar
dbondar@princeton.edu
Research interests include Operational Dynamical Modeling (a theoretical framework to deduce reduced-dimensional models of complex dynamics in systematic fashion from dynamically observed data), open and closes quantum system dynamics, numerical method for master equations, theoretical AMO (atomic, molecular, and optical physics), and condense matter.
Research Chemist
Genyuan Li
Research Chemist, Theoretical
genyuan@princeton.edu
Research interests include chemical kinetics with principal areas of focus including chemical kinetic mechanism reduction approaches, high dimensional model representation techniques with applications in complex reaction systems, atmospheric chemistry and other scientific disciplines.
Francois Lafarge
Associate Research Chemist, Experimental
flaforge@princeton.edu
Research interests include optimal coherent control of surface second harmonic generation, incoherent control of molecular systems by the environment, transport and conversion of energy in quantum systems, and electron and proton transfers.
Professional Specialist
Roberto Rey-de-castro
Professional Specialist, Experimental
rrey@princeton.edu
Research interests include ultrafast lasers, automation, atomic, molecular and condensed matter physics and techniques to identify the mechanism induced by quantum control fields.
Graduates
Andre Gontijo Campos
Graduate-G10, Theoretical
agontijo@princeton.edu
Research interests include application of optimal control theory to relativistic quantum systems, how relativistic effects influences the system’s controllability and applying control theory to manipulate relativistic effects in atoms.
Zachary Quine
Graduate-G09, Experimental
zquine@princeton.edu
Research interests include applying optimal control and ultra-short laser pulse shaping to material detection and characterization and studying the impact of random environmental noise on the feedback loop of learning algorithms.
Greg Riviello
Graduate-G09, Theoretical
riviello@princeton.edu
Research interests include effects of landscape geometry and critical point topology on optimization efficiency.