Principal Investigators
Filip Rozpędek
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
College of Natural Sciences
Professor Rozpędek is an Assistant Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He obtained his PhD in 2019 from QuTech at TU Delft where he worked in Stephanie Wehner's group on the building blocks of quantum networks. From 2019 to 2023, he was a postdoc in Liang Jiang's group at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago working on quantum repeaters for quantum communication.
Gayane Vardoyan
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Professor Vardoyan is an Assistant Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 2022 to 2024, Professor Vardoyan was an Assistant Professor at QuTech's Quantum Internet Division, and EEMCS, TU Delft, receiving a permanent contract in 2023. That same year, she became part-time faculty at UMass Amherst, ultimately switching to full-time in 2024. She received her PhD from UMass Amherst, where she worked on systems and networking in Don Towsley's group. Then, she was a postdoc at TU Delft, where she worked with Stephanie Wehner.
Postdocs
Leonardo Bacciottini
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Leonardo is a postdoc jointly working with Gayane Vardoyan and Don Towsley. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pisa, where he also obtained his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering. His research interests include protocols and architectures for entanglement distribution networks, simulation, and quantum information theory, with a focus on entanglement purification.
Stav Haldar
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Stav is a postdoc under Filip Rozpędek. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. His research interests are theory and optimization of quantum networks, quantum time synchronization protocols, and quantum optics, especially its intersection with gravity and phase transitions in quantum many-body systems.
PhD Students
Meghashrita Das
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
Meghashrita is a computer science PhD student UMass Amherst. She works with Gayane Vardoyan and Filip Rozpędek to study the function of loss-tolerant graph states in designing all-photonic quantum repeaters with error-corrected architectures. Meghashrita holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural and food engineering and a master's degree in financial engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. She also minored in mathematics and computing and pursued a microspecialization in artificial intelligence and applications.
Agustin Garcia Flores
University of Massachusetts Amherst
College of Natural Sciences
Agustin is a physics PhD student at UMass Amherst. He works with satellite-based quantum networks under the guidance of Filip Rozpędek and Stav Haldar. Agustin graduated from Arizona State University with bachelor's degrees in mathematics and physics.
Luise Prielinger
Delft University of Technology
Quantum Internet Division
Luise is a PhD candidate at TU Delft. She works with Gayane Vardoyan on applying existing numerical optimization techniques to discover effective solutions to complex quantum networking problems. Luise completed her master's degrees in computer science and theoretical physics in Vienna, Austria.
Ryosuke Shiina
University of Massachusetts Amherst
College of Natural Sciences
Ryosuke Shiina is a physics PhD candidate at UMass Amherst. He is researching under Filip Rozpędek and has been a graduate student researcher with the Center for Quantum Networks. He is a quantum network architect, and his main area of research is theory relating to quantum network schemes, error correction codes such as GKP-code and Cat code, and graph theory.
(Eric) Guo Xian Yau
Delft University of Technology
QuTech
Eric completed his master's and bachelor's degrees in mathematics. His ongoing research includes performance analysis and quantum network protocol design, but he hopes to shift his focus to more graph-theoretic applications on quantum networks in the future.
Past Members
Snehasis Addy
Snehasis is a computer science PhD student at UMass Amherst. During the first year of his PhD program, he jointly worked with Filip Rozpędek and Gayane Vardoyan on topics related to Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing.
Ankit Kumar Jha
Ankit was a computer science PhD student at UMass Amherst for a year before he transferred to the University of Bordeaux in pursuit of a physics PhD. He worked with Filip Rozpędek on Concatenated Bosonic Error Correcting Codes to design efficient quantum repeaters.
Luc Barrett
Luc, now an applied physics PhD student at Cornell University, graduated from UMass Amherst with bachelor's degrees in computer science, applied mathematics, and physics. He also earned a master's degree in computer science at UMass Amherst as a Bay State Fellow. He worked with Gayane Vardoyan and Stefan Krastanov on optimizing quantum communication protocols using reinforcement learning.