John Preskill

Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics
Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy
California Institute of Technology

Former Ph.D. students:

1. Peter Galison (1983) -- Harvard University
2. Brian Hatfield (1985) -- Applied Mathematical Physics Research, Inc.
3. Ian Angus (1986) -- Terabeam Networks
4. Milan Mijic (1987) -- California State University Los Angeles
5. Alexios Polychronakos (1987) -- CUNY
6. George Siopsis (1987) -- University of Tennessee at Knoxville
7. Brian Warr (1987) -- deceased
8. Jim Cline (1988) -- McGill University
9. Elias Kiritsis (1988) – Ecole Polytechnique
10. Ji-yu Feng (1989)
11. Martin Bucher (1990) -- CNRS
12. Olivier Espinosa (1990) -- Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Valparaiso, Chile)
13. Sandip Trivedi (1990) -- Tata Institute
14. Alex Ridgway (1992) -- Sun Microsystems
15. John Apostolakis (1993) -- CERN
16. Robert Navin (1993) -- Real Time Risk Systems
17. Kai-Ming Lee (1994) -- University of Hong Kong
18. Hoi-Kwong Lo (1994) -- University of Toronto
19. Piljin Yi (1994) -- Korean Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)
20. Patrick McGraw (1996) -- University of Toronto
21. Kent Bradford(1997) -- The Aerospace Corporation
22. Daniel Gottesman (1997) -- Perimeter Institute
23. Anton Kapustin (1997) -- California Institute of Technology
24. Jaemo Park (1997) -- Pohang University of Science and Technology
25. Eric Westphal (1998) -- Koch Industries, Inc.
26. Dave Beckman (2004) -- Toyon Research Corporation
27. Bob Gingrich (2001) – Western Asset Management
28. Andrew Landahl (2002) – Sandia National Laboratories
29. Eugene Pivovarov (2002) -- Rice University

30. Federico Spedalieri (2003) – UCLA

31. Sumit Daftuar (2003) – Goldman Sachs

32. John Cortese (2003) – Lincoln Laboratory
33. Charlene Ahn (2004) – Toyon Research Corporation
34. Jim Harrington (2004) – HRL Laboratories

35. Carlos Mochon (2005) – DE Shaw & Co
36. Anura Abeyesinghe (2006) – UCLA Anderson School of Management
37. Graeme Smith (2006) – University of Colorado

38. Ben Toner (2006) – BQP Solutions
39. Panos Aliferis (2007) – Capital Fund Management (CFM), Paris
40. Parsa Bonderson (2007) – Microsoft Station Q

41. Mike Zwolak (2007) – National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

42. Kovid Goyal (2009) – Calibre ebook management

43. Greg Ver Steeg (2009) – Information Sciences Institute, USC

44. Hui Khoon Ng (2010) – Yale-NUS College (YNC) and Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore
45. Ersen Bilgin (2011) – Goldman Sachs, New York
46. Prabha Mandayam (2011) – Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
47. Peter Brooks (2013) – Google
48. Jeongwan Haah (2013) – Stanford University
49. Isaac Kim (2013) – University of California at Davis
50. Michael Beverland (2016) – IBM

51. Aleksander Kubica (2017) – Amazon Web Services

52. Sujeet Shukla (2017) – Amazon

53. Matt Fishman (2018) – Flatiron Institute

54. Nick Hunter-Jones (2018) – University of Texas at Austin

55. Anna Komar (2018) -- Neiman Marcus Group

56. Shaun Maguire (2018) – Sequoia Capital
57. Nicole Yunger Halpern (2018) – NIST and University of Maryland
58. Joe Iverson (2020) – Amazon Web Services
59. Junyu Liu (2021) – University of Pittsburgh
60. Eugene Tang (2021) – Northeastern University

61. Tian Wang (2023) – NTT
62. Robert Huang (2023) – California Institute of Technology
63. Bailey Gu (2024) – Yale University

Current graduate students:

Abishek Anand
Chris Chen
Laura Cui
Isabel Franco Garrido
Kyle Gulshen
Dariel Mok
Daniel Murphy
Preksha Naik
Chris Pattison
Yongtao Zhan

Former undergraduate research students
(and where they went to graduate school):

Devabhaktuni Srikrishna (1996) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amalavoyal Chari (1996) -- Harvard University
Jarah Evslin (1997) -- University of California at Berkeley
Sham Kakade (1997) -- University College London
Eric Dennis (1998) -- University of California at Santa Barbara
Walt Ogburn (1999) -- Stanford University
Joe Renes (1999) -- University of New Mexico

Andrew Childs(2000) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keshav Dani (2000) -- University of California at Berkeley
Brian Watkins (2001) -- University of California at Berkeley
Paul McFadden (2002) -- Cambridge University
Chenyang Wang (2002) -- Stanford University

Nathan Wozny (2003) – Princeton University
Liang Jiang (2004) – Harvard University
Sam Thomsen (2004) – University of Pittsburgh

Alex McCauley (2006) – MIT

Yingkai Ouyang (2007) – University of Waterloo
Liang Zheng Tan (2008) – University of California at Berkeley

John Schulman (2010) – University of California at Berkeley
Gabriel Mendoza (2011) – University of Bristol
Kurt Litsch (2011) – Google

John Napp (2014) -- MIT

Scientific ancestry:

My advisor was Steve Weinberg , whose advisor was Sam Treiman,whose advisors were John Simpson (officially) and Enrico Fermi (unofficially).

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