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 Colorado 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 Colorado 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
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.
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.
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.
Kin Fung (Frankie) Ngan
Graduate Student
Frankie obtained his BS from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2020, and subsequently joined the Sun Group as a Physics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. Frankie did his undergraduate research in the Wang Lab (CUHK) on "High Field Imaging of NaRb Molecules". He also spent the summers working in the Gadway Lab at UIUC on "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 favourite restaurant is the Black Dog in Champaign.
Yuan Zhan
Graduate Student
Yuan obtained his BS from Peking University in 2019, and subsequently joined the Sun Group as a Physics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. His undergraduate research mainly focused on theoretical and experimental studies of quantum simulation with cold atoms in shaken optical lattices. He is currently interested in light-matter interactions in nanophotonic systems, generation of highly-entangled states and their applications in quantum communication and quantum computation.
Undergraduate Students
Connor Desrosiers
Undergraduate Student
Connor is currently an undergraduate at CU Boulder studying Engineering Physics and Electrical Engineering. In 2024 he joined the Sun lab as an undergraduate researcher, working on a project in which he designed an analog signal processing circuit to generate a TTL signal synchronized with vibrations from a closed cycle cryogenic system to be used as a means of enhancing the quality of measured data. He is currently working with Nitrogen Vacancy center defects in diamond in a collaborative project aiming to demonstrate a new method of quantum noise spectroscopy.
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
| Name | Time in Group | Position After Leaving the Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayoung Jeong | 2022–2023 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) | Postdoctoral researcher at KRISS |
Graduate Students
No graduate-student alumni yet.
Undergraduate Students
| Name | Time in Group | Position After Leaving the Group | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arunava Das | 2021–2022 | Graduate student at Princeton University | Graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University |
| Tree Hiri-o-tuppa | 2021–2023 | Graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Joshua Jeng | 2022–2024 | Undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder | Student at the University of Colorado Boulder |
| Jordan Lang | 2021–2022 | Undergraduate research assistant in the CU Boulder nuclear physics group | PhD student in physics at MIT |
| Yichuan Su | 2020–2022 | Master’s student at the University of Pennsylvania | Quantitative researcher |