John Preskill

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) -- PIMCO
28. Andrew Landahl (2002) – University of New Mexico
29. Eugene Pivovarov (2002) -- Rice University

30. Federico Spedalieri (2003) – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

31. Sumit Daftuar (2003) – Goldman Sachs

32. John Cortese (2003) – Georgia Tech Research Institute
33. Charlene Ahn (2004) – Toyon Research Corporation
34. Jim Harrington (2004) – Los Alamos National Laboratory

35. Carlos Mochon (2005) – Perimeter Institute
36. Anura Abeyesinghe (2006) -- Mitchell Madison Group
37. Graeme Smith (2006) – University of Bristol

38. Ben Toner (2006) – CWI, Amsterdam
39. Panos Aliferis (2007) – IBM Research
40. Parsa Bonderson (2007) – Microsoft Station Q

41. Mike Zwolak (2007) – Los Alamos National Laboratory

Current graduate students:

Ersen Bilgin

Kovid Goyal
Hui Khoon Ng

Prabha Mandayam

Greg Ver Steeg

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

Current undergraduate research students:

Gabriel Mendoza
John Schulman
Liang Zheng Tan

Scientific ancestry:

My advisor was Steve Weinberg , whose advisor was Sam Treiman,whose advisors were John Simpson (officially) and Enrico Fermi (unofficially).
See the Genealogy of theoretical physicists in Wikipedia.

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preskill@theory.caltech.edu