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Current Members

John Bechhoefer

John Bechhoefer

Supervisor

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Avijit Kundu

Postdoc Project: information engines

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Prithviraj Basak

PhD Student Project: Bit erasure

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Siddharth Sane

MSc Student Project: Mpemba effect

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Théo Kamara

Visiting Student Project: robust control

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Carvin MĂĽns

Visiting Student Project: robust control

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Mattia Altomare

USRA Student Project: robust control

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Atharv Tambade

MITACS Student Project: robust control

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Alumni

Visitors:

  • (2022–2023); Weizmann Inst. (Israel).
  • (2016–2017, 2019–2020, 2023); Univ. CĂ´te d'Azur (Nice).
  • John Herrick (1998–2014; Res. Assoc., Institut Pasteur & Genomic Vision)
  • Peter Williams (2004, 2005; Prof., Acadia Univ.)
  • Andrei Sonin (1994–5; Prof., Russian Academy of Science, Moscow)

Postdocs:

  • (2020-2023); Researcher, Deutsche Bahn, Germany
  • (2021-2023); Junior Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Ageing
  • (2019–2020); postdoctoral fellow, Univ. of Luxembourg
  • (2012–13); Laplace Postdoctoral Chair in Data Science, ENS Paris
  • (2009–11); Associate Professor, Physics, Nat. Central Univ., Taiwan
  • Michel Gauthier (2008–10; Dept. of National Defence, Ottawa)
  • Connie Roth (2004–5; Professor, Physics, Emory Univ.)
  • Yuekan Jiao (2002–4; Research Associate, PAPRICAN)
  • Ramesh Rao Nistala (2000; Global Foundries, Singapore)
  • Mike Degen (1997–9; Project Manager, Rigaku Innovative Technologies)
  • Gavin Wheeler (1998–9)

Graduate students:

  • Sina Falakian (2024, MSc)
  • Tushar Saha (2022, PhD); research and development, MKS (formerly Photon Control)
  • (2021, PhD;Ěý PDF at Yale School of Medicine)
  • Lisa Zhang (2019, MSc)
  • MomÄŤilo Gavrilov (2016, PhD);Ěý NSERC PDF at Johns Hopkins
  • Mpumelelo Matse (2016, MSc)
  • (2016, MSc with TU Dresden);Ěý SFU Physics PhD program; currently Data Scientist at AbCellera
  • Laura Geisler (2015, MSc with TU Dresden)
  • Mike Chomitz (2015, MSc); high-school teacher, Burnaby, BC
  • (2012, PhD); Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Redpoll
  • Changmin Kim (2011, MSc); technical staff, Dept. of Physics, SFU
  • Yang Li (2008), Transferred to Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Toronto
  • Philip Grant (2007), MSc; High-school teacher, Surrey, BC
  • Shun Lu (2006), MSc; Senior Manager, Model & Market Risk, RBC
  • Haiyang Zhang (2005), MSc; Oxford Business School MSc program, England
  • (2004), Associate Professor, Physics, UC San Diego
  • Bram Sadlik (2004, MSc); research and development,
  • Christoph Hebeisen (2002, MSc); Director, Security Intelligence Research, Lookout, Toronto
  • (1999, PhD); Professor, Physics, Memorial Univ [Nfld]
  • (1997, PhD); Associate Professor, Univ. Western Ontario
  • Nancy Tamblyn (1994, MSc); Change Healthcare, Richmond, BC

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NSERC USRAs and other undergrads from Canada:

The USRA is a wonderful program that helps undergrads in Canada get research experience.

  • David Tam (2021, USRA from UBC)
  • Sean Chen (2020, USRA from UBC)
  • Paul Omelchenko (2013–4, BSc thesis, SFU)
  • Leo Koppel (2014, USRA from Queens)
  • Leith Znaimer (2014, from McGill)

– plus Daniel Baker, Clinton Innes, Thomas Luo, Karl Wouterloot, Chris Ward, Brandon Marshall, Alex Bowie, Stefan Murphy, Russell Woods, Kevin Wong, Lorraine Courneyea, Tim Warner, Russ Greenall, Bram Sadlik, Matt Case, Nicolas Costanzino, Angelo Miele (before 2014).

International Connections:

Over the years, many students from abroad have visited.

  • Dana Kamp (2023, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark)
  • Roi Holtzman (2023, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
  • Priyanka Sharma (2023, MITACS, BIT Sindri, India)
  • Yi-Jia (Jimmy) Liu (2023, National Taiwan Normal University)
  • Dhruv Shah (2022, MITACS, IIT Bombay, India)
  • Zimu Li (2021, MITACS, Southwest Univ., Chongqing, China)
  • Luis Reinalter (2019, BSc., Univ. Konstanz, Germany)
  • Wen-dong Deng (2019, MITACS, Wuhan Univ., China)
  • Ronja Fischer-SĂĽĂźlin (2018, BSc., Univ. Konstanz, Germany)
  • Denesh Kumar (2018, IIT Madras, India)
  • Xiao-Yi Su (2018, MITACS, Ocean University, Qingdao, China)
  • Matthias Gey (2017, BSc., Univ. Konstanz, Germany)
  • JoĂŁo Vitor Soares Ramos (2017, MITACS, Univ. Federale de Itajuba, Brazil)
  • Yannick Dreher (2016, BSc., Univ. Konstanz, Germany)
  • Robert Löffler (2015, BSc., Univ. Konstanz, Germany)
  • Swapnil Gupta (2015, MITACS, from IIT Guwahati, India)
  • Mathieu Humbert (2015, Univ. Dijon, France)

– plus Jan Koloczek, Dirk Wiedmann, Lukas Schertl, Maxi Frei, Ullrich Siems, Otto Verhage, Sébastien Kawka, Mélanie Boussard, Elise Praly, Bloen Metzger, Philippe Gastrein, Vincent Fourmond, Laurent Talon, Damien Jurine, François Coulombeau, Laurent Daudet, Valerie Ego, Sébastien Manneville, and Julien Prieur (before 2015).