Michael Hatridge
Associate Professor of Applied Physics
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- B.S., Texas A&M University
Contact: michael.hatridge@yale.edu
Office:
15 Prospect Street, Becton Center
New Haven, CT 06511
Jacob Repicky
Jake received his PhD from The Ohio State University where he studied surface magnetic textures using STM. He joined the Hatlab in August of 2022 and has worked on various cQED experiments across the lab, especially improving coherence in tantalum transmons and the effects of strong drives on transmons and parametric couplers. Outside of the lab, Jake is an avid golfer and enjoys experimenting on the best methods for brewing a cup of coffee.
Contact: jacob.repicky@yale.edu
Graduate Students
Gaurav Agarwal
Gaurav is currently the youngest student of the Hatlab from Uttrakhand, India famous for its hillstations. He recieved his Masters in Physics from UM-DAE-CBS, India where he dived into superconducting thin films and superconducting qubits. He is currently getting his hands dirty with parametric processes in superconducting qubits.
Website: gauravag99.github.io
Contact: gaurav.agarwal@yale.edu
Israa Ali Yusuf
Israa is a fifth-year graduate student at Pitt. She comes from the capital of the land of the Pharaohs (Cairo, Egypt) but was born in Oman. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics, where her main focus was optical spectroscopy on III-V solar cells. In Hatlab, Israa is working on making Josephson-junction based MASERs, and gaining experience with superconducting circuits.
Contact: israa.aliyusuf@yale.edu
Girish Khumbar
Girish is a third -year graduate student from Maharashtra, India. He received his BS and MS in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) studying computational High Energy Physics and 2-d superconducting qubit design respectively. He is interested in understanding and overcoming the speed limitations of SNAIL-based quantum gates.
Contact: girish.kumbhar@yale.edu
Boris Mesits
Boris is a fifth-year graduate student who studied physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Growing up, he lived in six different states, ultimately graduating high school in Anchorage, Alaska. He is interested in leveraging the inherent flux sensitivity of quantum devices to measure tiny magnetic fields.
Contacts: boris.mesits@yale.edu
Maria Nowicki
Maria is a fourth-year graduate student in Hatlab. Originally from Andover, Kansas (with a brief stint in France), Maria moved to Chicago for her undergraduate degree at Loyola University where she participated in particle physics research. Maria is currently gaining experience with quantum-limited amplifier design and fabrication.
Contact: maria.nowicki@yale.edu
Param Patel
Param is a sixth-year graduate student in Hatlab from New Jersey. He spent his undergraduate years at Rutgers University working with graphene and now spends his time on qubit measurements and fabricating better tantalum-based qubits.
Contact: param.patel@yale.edu
Chun-Che Wang
Chun-Che is a third-year graduate student in Hatlab, and was born and raised in Taichung, Taiwan. He spent his undergraduate years at National Chung Cheng University and got a master’s degree in physics from National Taiwan University. Chun-Che is now working on simulation and measurement of masers.
Contact: chun-che.wang@yale.edu
Mingkang Xia
Mingkang is a sixth -year graduate student in Hatlab from Guangzhou, China, a city known for its delicious food and beautiful flowers. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) where he studied atomic physics. In the lab, he works on the design and measurement of new 3-wave mixing based quantum gates and improving qubit coherence.
Contact: mingkang.xia@yale.edu
Amy Wei
Contact: yiming.wei@yale.edu
Alumni
Evan McKinney, co-advised with Alex Jones, defended his PhD in Summer 2025, currently a postdoc at Yale University.
Ryan Kaufman defended his PhD thesis in 2024. He is currently at Google Quantum AI.
Maria Mucci defended her PhD thesis in August 2024. She now works on superconducting circuits at Northrop Grumman.
Chao Zhou finished his PhD in Fall 2023. He is now a post-doctoral researcher in the Rob Schoelkopf Lab at Yale University.
Pinlei Lu finished his PhD in Summer 2022. He is currently at Quantum Circuits, Inc.
Xi Cao finished his PhD in Spring 2021. He is currently a post-doctoral research in the Pfaff Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Tzu-Chiao Chien finished his PhD in the summer of 2020. He is now working as a Senior Quantum Readout Physicist at Microsoft.
Olivia Lanes finished her PhD in the spring of 2020. She is now working at IBM.
Sarah Motz worked in the Hatlab from 2016 to 2019. She is continuing her education with graduate studies at Delft University of Technology.
Edan Alpern worked in the Hatlab from 2016 to 2019.
Gangqiang Liu was Hatlab’s first postdoc. He finished his time with us in Autumn 2018 and joined his post-doc training at Yale in Michel Devoret’s Qlab. Currently, he is working at Quantum Circuits, Inc.
Alexander Rowden graduated in the spring of 2018. He is pursuing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland.
Michael Prijatelj graduated in the spring of 2016.
Erick Brindock worked in the Hatlab from 2016 to 2018.