Lucas has over a decade's experience in computing the properties of many-body quantum systems from first principles. He is the primary architect and developer of the open-source quantum Monte Carlo program QWalk, and has made advances in many-body quantum methods, as well as a number of applications to challenging electronic systems. While he has many interests, the overarching theme of his research is using computers to study systems of electrons that fall beyond the normal paradigms of metals and insulators.

Scott joined the group in 2020, and is working on simulations of interacting systems to obtain accurate phase diagrams.

Alex joined the group in Fall 2015. He is currently working on magnetic systems.

William joined the group in January 2016. He is currently working on the information content of many-body wave functions, and data analysis.

Shivesh joined the group in 2016. He is currently working on enhancing QWalk's capabilities.

Yueqing joined the group in fall 2016. She is working on spin-orbit coupling in correlated electron systems.

Mick is working on automating electronic structure calculations in such a way that quantum Monte Carlo calculations can be performed more easily. He is now also working on phonons in cuprate superconductors.

Billy is working on interfaces between topological systems and other non-topological systems.

Kevin joined the group in 2019. He is interested in electron-phonon interactions and defects in correlated systems

Chun Yu joined in 2020

Nirvaan joined in 2020

Sonali joined in late 2020

Joao joined in summer of 2017. He is working on effective models in graphene and descriptors for superconductivity. He is now a professor at U. ABC in Brazil.

Kiel is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow who is learning how to improve many-body wave functions in realistic systems. He joined the group in summer of 2013, and graduated in 2020. He now works for a data analytics company.

Awadhesh got his PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where he studied the transport of spins in materials. His interest in this group was the prediction of new strongly correlated materials that may have quite unusual properties. After a productive stint in the group, he has moved to ETH-Zurich to work with Nicola Spaldin.

Hitesh hails from Cornell and specializes in many-body quantum methods, mostly as applied to model lattice systems. His work in this group has focused on formalizing the link between the high energy (for condensed matter) physics of electrons and the low-energy qualitative descriptions that we use to talk about materials. Hitesh is a prolific collaborator and also worked with Shinsei Ryu, Taylor Hughes, Bryan Clark, and David Ceperley in the physics department at UIUC. He is now professor at Florida State.

Huihuo has many interests, including correlated metal-insulator transitions, new methods for quantum Monte Carlo, and effective Hamiltonians. He joined the group in spring of 2012 and graduated in 2016. He is now a postdoc at Argonne National Lab.

Li studied correlated metal-insulator transitions in realistic systems. She joined the group in summer of 2014. She is currently working at Goldman Sachs.

Yanbin is a student of Narayan Aluru who is working with the group on calculating the interaction of water with 2D materials. He graduated in 2016 and is currently living in Houston.

Brian is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow who is using quantum Monte Carlo methods to study superconducting materials. He joined the group in August 2013 and graduated in 2018. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Flatiron Institute.

Bode was a student of Shinsei Ryu who was implementing spin-orbit interactions in QWalk.

Jack did his senior thesis on visualizing correlations in electronic systems.

Daniel did some work on extending the averaging programs for QWalk.

Martin did his senior thesis on improving the time step error in diffusion Monte Carlo.

Matt is working on data-mining approaches to understanding trends in correlated electron materials.

Ping-Ko worked on faster implementations of QMC techniques

Jeremy was a student of Peter Abbamonte who studied magnetic models for unconventional superconductors.

Cooper is benchmarking different techniques for computing thermodynamic quantities from first principles.

Yiqing worked on implementing and improving algorithms in pyqmc in 2019-2020.

Sohm worked on implementing Jastrow factors in pyqmc in 2019.