The Team
Principal Investigator

Prof. Eric R. Hudson
Principal Investigator
Office: PAB 4-429
Phone: 310-825-5224
eric.hudson@ucla.edu
Postdoctoral Scholars
![]() Haowen Zhou, PhD
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![]() Hao Wu, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone: 310-825-4714
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Richard Elwell
Postdoctoral Researcher
Phone: 310-825-4788
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Graduate Students
![]() Clayton Ho
Supreme Premier Exalted Graduate Student Researcher
and Film Aficionado
Phone: 310-825-4714
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Zachary Wall
Graduate Student Researcher
Phone: 310-794-9389
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Grant Mitts
Senior Graduate Student Researcher
Phone: 310-825-4714
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![]() Josh Rabinowitz
Chief Executive Graduate Student Researcher and
Golfer Extraordinaire
Phone: 310-825-4714
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![]() James Terhune
Graduate Student Researcher
and Amateur Spikeballer
Phone: 310-825-4788
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![]() Michael Bareian
Rank 1 Corporate Graduate Student Researcher
Phone: 310-825-9389
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![]() Steven Diaz
Graduate Student Researcher
and Chief Coffee Connoisseur
Phone: 310-825-9389
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![]() Elijah Mossman
Graduate Student Researcher
and Golfing Enthusiast
Phone: 310-825-9389
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![]() Albert Bao
Graduate Student Researcher
Phone: 310-825-4788
***@g.ucla.edu
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Undergraduates
David Shao
Group Alumni (Graduate Students and Postdocs)
| Name | Position | Experiment | Departure Date | Current |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Vizvary | Graduate Student | Barium | 2025/06 | |
| Dylan Kawashiri | Undergraduate | EGGS | 2025/06 | R&D Engineer @ Vector Atomic |
| Guozhu Zhu | Postdoc | NICE | 2024/10 | Faculty @ Fudan University |
| Guanming Lao | Graduate Student | NICE | 2024/09 | Postdoc @ University of Chicago |
| Matthew Boguslawski | Postdoc | Barium | 2022 | IonQ |
| Christian Schneider | Research Scientist | Thorium, HUNTER | 2022 | JPL |
| Michael Mills | Graduate Student | MOTion | 2020/12 | H2-1 System Lead @ Quantinuum |
| Elizabeth Petrik West | Postdoc | Velocity Map Imaging | 2020/10 | |
| Justin Christensen | Graduate Student Postdoc |
Barium | 2020/05 | HRL Laboratories |
| Tiangang Yang | Postdoc | NICE | 2019/10 | Associate Professor @ SUSTech |
| David Hucul | Postdoc | Barium | 2019 | Team Lead @ Air Force Research Laboratory |
| Prateek Puri | Graduate Student | MOTion | 2019/06 | Information Scientist @ RAND Corporation |
| Justin Jeet | Graduate Student | Thorium | 2018/06 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Steve Schowalter | Graduate Student | MOTion | 2016/06 | Director, Data Science @ Videoamp |
| Alexander J. Dunning | Graduate Student | MOTion | 2016/01 | Head of Engineering @ QLM Technology |
| Wade G. Rellergert | Research Scientist | MOTion | 2012/11 | Founder @ Ionicscale |
| Scott Sullivan | Graduate Student | MOTion | 2013/11 | Founder @ Ionicscale |
| Kuang Chen | Graduate Student | MOTion | 2013/05 | Software Engineer @ Google |
| Alexander Wilson | Postdoc | MOTion | 2012/01 | University of Oxford |








