Sun Group People
Principal Investigator
Shuo Sun
JILA Fellow, Assistant Professor of Physics
Shuo Sun is a JILA fellow and an assistant professor of the Department of Physics at the University of Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder. He obtained his BS in 2011 from Zhejiang University, China, and obtained his MS and PhD in 2015 and 2016 from the University of Maryland, College Park. During his PhD, he developed the first spin-photon quantum switch and the first single-photon transistor using a solid-state spin. Before joining the faculty of JILA and the University of Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder in 2020, Sun was a postdoctoral fellow (2017–2019) and a physical science research scientist (2019–2020) in the Ginzton Lab at Stanford University. There, he worked with Prof. Jelena Vuckovic on color-center-based quantum optics and inverse-designed quantum photonics. Sun is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2024), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2022), and the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2021).
Graduate Students
Kinfung (Frankie) Ngan
Graduate Student
FrankieÌýobtained his BS from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Ä¢¹½Ó°ÒôHK) in 2020, and subsequently joined the Sun Group as a Physics PhD student at the University of Ä¢¹½Ó°Òô Boulder. FrankieÌýdid his undergraduate research in the Wang Lab (Ä¢¹½Ó°ÒôHK) on "High Field Imaging of NaRb Molecules". He also spent the summers working in the Gadway Lab at UIUCÌýon "Counter-diabatic Control on Momentum State Transfers", and in the Bernien Lab at the University of Chicago on "Optical Tweezers Generation". His favourite food is Hot Pot, and his favouriteÌýrestaurant is the Black Dog in Champaign.
Thi Hoang
Graduate Student
Thi Hoang obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Middlebury College in 2021. She is a graduate student from Vietnam pursuing experimental AMO physics. In her previous research, she worked on Doppler-free spectroscopy with cold rubidium atoms in a magneto-optical trap, investigating quantum optical effects at low temperature. Her current interest includes optically controlled quantum dot qubits and optical microcavities.
Austin Granmoe
Graduate Student
Austin obtained his BS in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 2019. Before joining the Sun group as a physics PhD student in 2021, Austin researched and tested military optics at the Department of Defense. He has previously conducted research in Raman spectroscopy, CO2 laser design and fabrication, and big data analysis. He is currently interested in novel applications of nanophotonic systems, including miniaturized LIDAR systems, quantum communication devices, and quantum computers.
Harish Adsule
Graduate Student
Harish completed his BS-MS in Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, where he worked in the Photonic Devices Lab, getting entangled with Quantum Optics and modelling quantum dot devices. He also had a brief interaction with the Condensed Matter Theory group as a part of his MS project. Subsequently, he joined the Sun group as a PhD student and is currently interested in spin physics in quantum dots. He finds a strong resonance with fiction novels and his favourite team, Arsenal FC.
Undergraduate Students
Ben Vaziritabar
Undergraduate Student
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
| Name | Time in Group | Position After Leaving the Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayoung Jeong | 2022–2023 | Postdoctoral scholar at , South Korea | Postdoctoral scholar at , South Korea |
Graduate Students
| Name | Time in Group | Position After Leaving the Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuan Zhan | 2020–2026 | Postdoctoral scholar at | Postdoctoral scholar at |
Undergraduate Students
| Name | Time in Group | Next Position |
|---|---|---|
| Connor Desrosiers | 2024–2026 | PhD student at MIT (2026– ) |
| Sylvia Whang (NSF REU student) | Summer 2025 | PhD student at Stanford University (2026– ) |
| Chanakya Pandya (REU student) | Summer 2024 | PhD student at Rice University (2025– ) |
| Joshua Jeng | 2022–2024 | — |
| Narisak (Tree) Hiri-o-tuppa | 2021–2023 | PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2023– ) |
| Jordan Lang | 2021–2022 | PhD student at MIT (2023– ) |
| Arunava Das | 2021–2022 | PhD student at Princeton University (2022– ) |
| Yichuan Su | 2020–2022 | Master’s student at the University of Pennsylvania (2022–2024) |