People

Our group is part of Harvard's high energy theory group at the Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, which includes around 15 faculty, 20 postdocs, and 20 graduate students.

PI

Matthew D. Schwartz Professor of Physics, Harvard University

Ph.D. Students

Aurelian Dersy Expected Spring 2026

Xiaoyuan Zhang PhD 2025 · Pappalardo Fellow, MIT

Arindam Bhattacharya PhD 2025 · Postdoc, DESY

Hofie Hannesdottir PhD 2022 · Fellow IAS → Google Blueshift/DeepMind

Anders Andreassen PhD 2018 · Fellow UCB → Google Blueshift/DeepMind

Kai Yan PhD 2018 · Faculty, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Christopher Frye PhD 2018 · DE Shaw

Will Frost PhD 2017 · Data Scientist, Bay Area

David Farhi PhD 2016 · OpenAI

Ilya Feige PhD 2016 · Head of Data Science and AI, Cerebrus

Yang-Ting Chien PhD 2013 · Faculty, Georgia State University

Jason Gallicchio PhD 2012 · Faculty, Harvey Mudd College

Postdocs

Yanou Cui

David Krohn

Zhenyu Han

Samuel Homiller

Randall Kelley

Rashmish K. Mishra

Andrew J. Larkoski

Bryan Ostdiek

Marat Freytsis