Celebrating our quantum doctors

(Clockwise from top left) CQT graduates Mikolaj Paraniak, Yu Xianquan, Tseng Ko-Wei and Thanasilp Supanut arrived at the ceremony held at the NUS University Cultural Centre to collect their degrees.

On 6 July, the National University of Singapore’s University Cultural Centre brimmed with anticipation as graduates assembled with their friends and family. Four CQT graduates in their gowns and mortarboards were among them, ready to collect their degrees in person at the commencement ceremony. 

Seven students officially graduated from CQT’s PhD programme in 2023. In their time at CQT, they worked on projects spanning quantum communication and cryptography, quantum machine learning and quantum simulation. 

This year’s cohort also celebrated some extra milestones. Yellapragada Krishna Chaitanya and Yu Xianquan are the first graduates from the groups of Principal Investigator Loh Huanqian and Travis Nicholson respectively. At CQT, Krishna contributed to research on ‘magic wavelengths’, which can be used to scale up atom array numbers, while Xianquan was part of a team that became the first to trap and cool indium atoms. 

Equipped with their knowledge and skills, they have accepted new roles. Krishna has joined local startup Atomionics, which builds quantum sensors for navigation and exploration. Xianquan has accepted a postdoctoral role in Travis’ lab to continue work on the ultracold indium project.  

Some graduates venture overseas. For example, Naresh Goud Boddu and Sofia Botsi moved to the United States as postdoctoral researchers. Naresh has joined NTT Research’s Cryptography and Information Security lab and Sofia Botsi has joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  

We look forward to seeing what our graduates achieve in the future. Congratulations to all our graduates of 2023!  

We encourage our alumni to stay in touch and share their career stories.

Prospective students interested in pursuing a PhD at CQT can find more information on our website.

Find a full list of this year's graduates and their thesis titles below. To read the theses, go here.

PhD Graduates 2023

Mikolaj Paraniak
(A) Reduced Density Matrix Generation Algorithms in Single-particle-exact Density Functional Theory, (B) Quantum Dynamical Simulation of a Transversal Stern-gerlach Interferometer, (C) Open Quantum System Process Tomography,
Supervised by Berge Englert
CQT PhD Programme

Naresh Goud Boddu
Problems in Quantum Tamper Resilient Cryptography and Quantum Communication Complexity
Supervised by Rahul Jain
CQT PhD Programme

Sofia Botsi
Exploring the Dipolar Ground State of Ultracold 6li40k Molecules via Singlet States
Supervised by Kai Dieckmann
CQT PhD Programme

Thanasilp Supanut
Analog Quantum Simulators For Quantum Advantage And Quantum Machine Learning
Supervised by Dimitris Angelakis
CQT PhD Programme

Tseng Ko-Wei
Overlap Measurement Of Infinite Dimensional Quantum States And Bosonic Learning Machine With Trapped Ions
Supervised by Dzmitry Matsukevich
CQT PhD Programme

Yellapragada Krishna Chaitanya
Towards Quantum Logic With Singly Trapped Ultracold Molecules
Supervised by Loh Huanqian
CQT PhD Programme

Yu Xianquan
Laser Cooling of a Group III Atom
Supervised by Travis Nicholson
CQT PhD Programme