Team Members

Team Members

Omar Magana-Loaiza , PhD

Associate Professor of Physics - Louisiana State University

Ph.D., 2016 - University of Rochester

(225) 578-5851-Office

maganaloaiza at lsu.edu

Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D., 2019 - Louisiana State University

cyou2 at lsu.edu

Mingyuan Hong

Graduate Student 

mhong2 at lsu.edu

Jannatul Ferdous 

Graduate Student 

jferdo2 at lsu.edu

Riley Dawkins

Graduate Student 

rdawki1 at lsu.edu

Ian Baum

Graduate Student 

ibaum1 at lsu.edu

Justin Woodring

Graduate Student 

jwoodr7 at lsu.edu

Benjamin Bertoni 

Undergraduate Student

bberto2 at lsu.edu

Derrick Johnson 

High school student

Central High School


Addison Wilberg

Visiting REU Student 

Trinity University


Raymond Liu

High school student

Baton Rouge Magnet High School


Former Team Members

Narayan Bhusal, PhD

PhD Thesis

"Smart Quantum Technologies using Photons"

Now TD Engineer at Intel Corporation

Michelle Lollie, PhD

PhD Thesis

"Advanced Communication and Sensing Protocols Using Twisted Light and Engineered Quantum Statistics"

First Black woman graduating from our Physics Department!

Now Advanced Laser Scientist at Quantinuum 

Nathan Miller, PhD

PhD Thesis

"New Aspects of Optical Coherence and their Potential for Quantum Technologies"

Now Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories

Fatemeh Mostafavi, PhD

PhD Thesis

"Multiphoton Quantum Sensing"

Now Postdoctoral Researcher at Iowa State University

Chao Dong

Undergraduate Visiting Student from Lanzhou University. 

Now graduate student at the University of Texas Austin. 

Josh Fabre

Undergraduate Student - Louisiana State University

Now Research Scientist at Atom Mines & graduate student at the University of Texas Austin

Francisco D. Santillan

Visiting Graduate Student - The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Aidan Lambert

Undergraduate Student - Louisiana State University

Brandon Lin

High School Student from Baton Rouge High

Admitted to MIT