Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang

Assistant Professor (Starting January 2025)

200 S.W. Mudd
Mail Code: 4701
New York, NY 10027

Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang and her lab leverage the unique advantages of qubit-photon interactions to advance the frontiers of quantum science and technology. They focus on introducing new capabilities, such as high levels of connectivity, into superconducting circuits and solid-state spin platforms by integrating these qubits with microwave waveguides and silicon photonics. This foundation enables the Zhang lab to explore novel possibilities in basic science, such as many-body quantum simulation and quantum topological photonics, as well as pushing the boundaries of quantum computing and networking technologies.

Research Interests

Quantum devices and their applications, superconducting qubits, solid state spins, quantum light-matter interaction, metamaterials, quantum many-body dynamics, topological photonics, quantum information, quantum networking.

Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University starting January 2025. She earned her B.Eng. with honors in Microelectronics Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2017 and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2023 supervised by Dr. Oskar Painter. Dr. Zhang then joined UC Berkeley as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, working with Dr. Alp Sipahigil in EECS and Physics.

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University, Starting Jan. 2025

Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley, April 2023-December 2024

Honors & Awards

Miller Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2023

Boeing Quantum Creator Prize, Chicago Quantum Exchange, 2023

Rising Star in Physics, 2023

Select Publications

Xueyue Zhang*, Eunjong Kim*, Daniel K. Mark, Soonwon Choi, Oskar Painter. A superconducting quantum simulator based on a photonic-bandgap metamaterial. Science 379, 6629 (2023)

Eunjong Kim*, Xueyue Zhang*, Vinicius S Ferreira, Jash Banker, Joseph K Iverson, Alp Sipahigil, Miguel Bello, Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Oskar Painter. Quantum electrodynamics in a topological waveguide. Phys. Rev. X 11 1, 011015 (2021)

Mohammad Mirhosseini*, Eunjong Kim*, Xueyue Zhang, Alp Sipahigil, Paul B Dieterle, Andrew J Keller, Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Darrick E Chang, Oskar Painter. Cavity quantum electrodynamics with atom-like mirrors. Nature 569, 7758 (2019)