Alumni
2022 Graduates
Dmitry Chichinadze
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov (FTPI)
Current Institution: National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Daniel Schubring
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Advisor: Mikhail (Misha) Shifman, FTPI
Current Institution: CUNY
Sarunas Verner
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Advisor: Keith Olive, FTPI
Current Institution:
Hsiu-Chung Yeh
Ph.D. Dissertation:
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution:
2021 Graduates
Hanteng Wang
Ph.D. Dissertation: Interplay between disorder and interactions: from non-Fermi liquid superconductivity to iterative quantum optimization
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Yiming Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation: Superconductivity at a quantum critical point: A theoretical approach to the understanding of unconventional superconductors in strongly correlated systems.
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov (FTPI)
Current Institution: Stanford University
2020 Graduates
Yuting Wang
Ph.D. Dissertation: Finite Size Scaling Around One Dimensional Topological Quantum Phase Transitions
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: Wells Fargo
Xuzhe Ying
Ph.D. Dissertation: Symmetry Protected Topological Metals and the Transport Signature
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: University of Waterloo
2019 Graduates
Michael Sammon
Ph.D. Dissertation: Electronic Properties of Oxide and Semiconductor Heterostructures
Advisor: Boris Shklovskii (FTPI)
Current Institution: University of Minnesota
Ruiqi Xing
Ph.D. Dissertation: Charge order, Magnetism and Superconductivity In Iron-Based Superconductors And Their Interplay
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov (FTPI)
Current Institution: Wells Fargo
Mengxing Ye
Ph.D. Dissertation: Magnetism in Correlated Electron Systems
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov (FTPI)
Current Institution: KITP, University of California, Santa Barbara
2018 Graduates
Michael Janas
Ph.D. Dissertation: Applications of Semiclassical Theory in Statistical and Quantum Mechanics
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: University of Minnesota
2017 Graduates
Han Fu
Ph.D. Dissertation: Electron Transport in SrTiO3 Accumulation Layers and Semiconductor Nanocrystal Films
Advisor: Boris Shklovskii (FTPI)
Current Institution: University of Chicago
Sergey Monin
Ph.D. Dissertation: Abelian and non-Abelian String
Advisor: Mikhail Shifman (FTPI)
Current Institution: Impulse Company
Jiaming Zheng
Ph.D. Dissertation: Dark Matter Models in Non-Supersymmetric SO(10) Unification Models
Advisor: Keith Olive (FTPI)
Current Institution: Shanghai Jiaotong University, INPAC
2016 Graduates
Jin Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Topics in Two-dimensional Heterotic and Minimal Supersymmetric Sigma Models
Advisor: Arkady Vainshtein (FTPI)
Current Institution: Yau Mathematical Sciences Center
Marcos Garcia Garcia
Ph.D. Dissertation: No-Scale Inflation
Advisor: Keith Olive (FTPI)
Current Institution: Instituto de Física of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ivan Gordeli
Ph.D. Dissertation: Singlet Glueballs In Klebanov-Strassler Theory
Advisor: Arkady Vainshtein (FTPI)
Current Institution: EDHEC Business School
Tobias Gulden
Ph.D. Dissertation: A Semiclassical Theory on Complex Manifolds with Applications in Statistical Physics and Quantum Mechanics
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: IST Austria
Alberto Hinojosa
Ph.D. Dissertation: Sign-changing S-wave Symmetry in Iron-based Superconductors: Manifestations and Extensions
Advisor: Andrey Chubukov (FTPI)
Current Institution: Intel
Adam Peterson
Ph.D. Dissertation: Low energy dynamics of non-perturbative structures in high energy and condensed matter systems
Advisor: Mikhail Shifman (FTPI)
Current Institution: Berkeley Lab Center for Computation Sciences and Engineering
2015 Graduates
Xin Li
Ph.D. Dissertation: Phenomenology of Hadrons Containing Heavy Quarks
Advisor: Mikhail Voloshin (FTPI)
Current Institution: Morgan Stanley
2014 Graduates
Tianran Chen
Ph.D. Dissertation: Disorder Effects on Electron Transport in Nanocrystal Assemblies and Topological Insulators
Advisor: Boris Shklovskii (FTPI)
Current Institution: West Chester University
Michael Schecter
Ph.D. Dissertation: Dynamics of mobile impurities in one-dimensional quantum liquids
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: Allianz Life
2013 Graduates
Thomas Dunn
Ph.D. Dissertation: Dynamics and performance optimization of spin-torque switching in magnetic tunnel junctions
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: Seagate Technology
2012 Graduates
Erik Aver
Ph.D. Dissertation: Self-consistent helium abundance determinations using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Advisor: Keith Olive (FTPI), Evan Skillman (MIfA)
Current Institution: Gonzaga University
Xiaoyi Cui
Ph.D. Dissertation: Perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of heterotic sigma models
Advisor: Mikhail Shifman (FTPI)
Current Institution: Sun Yat-Sen University
Peter Koroteev
Ph.D. Dissertation: On extended supersymmetry in two and four dimensions
Advisor: Arkady Vainshtein (FTPI)
Current Institution: University of California, Berkeley
Feng Luo
Ph.D. Dissertation: The effects of supersymmetric particle decays and annihilations on big-bang nucleosynthesis
Advisor: Keith Olive (FTPI)
Current Institution: Sun Yat-Sen University
Serkay Olmez
Ph.D. Dissertation: Critical Vortices in 2+1 dimensions and stochastic background of gravitational waves from cosmic strings
Advisor: Mikhail Shifman (FTPI)
Current Institution: Seagate Technology
2011 Graduates
Matthew Loth
Ph.D. Dissertation: Large enhancement of capacitance driven by electrostatic image forces
Advisor: Boris Shklovskii (FTPI)
Current Institution: University of Minnesota, School of Nursing
Matthew Parker
Ph.D. Dissertation: Noise-induced large fluctuations in oscillatory population systems
Advisor: Alex Kamenev (FTPI)
Current Institution: Optum
Brian Skinner
Ph.D. Dissertation: Microscopic theory of supercapacitors
Advisor: Boris Shklovskii (FTPI)
Current Institution: Ohio State University