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) – 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) – HRL Laboratories
48. Jeongwan Haah (2013) – Microsoft Research
49. Isaac Kim (2013) – University of Sydney
50. Michael Beverland (2016) – Microsoft Research

51. Aleksander Kubica (2017) – Amazon Web Services

52. Sujeet Shukla (2017) – Amazon

53. Matt Fishman (2018) – Flatiron Institute

54. Nick Hunter-Jones (2018) – Stanford University

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

56. Shaun Maguire (2018) – Sequoia Capital
57. Nicole Yunger Halpern (2018) – ITAMP, Harvard University
58. Joe Iverson (2020) – Amazon Web Services
59. Junyu Liu (2021) – University of Chicago
60. Eugene Tang (2021) -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Current graduate students:

Alex Buser
Bailey Gu
Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang
Tian Wang

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).
See the Genealogy of theoretical physicists in Wikipedia.

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