Leadership 2026 – 2027
We are led by a team of dedicated graduate and undergraduate students passionate about quantum science and engineering.
Sasha Cocquyt
President
Class: 2028
Major: ECE
Favorite PSQ Memory: The excitement at the kickoff workshop my freshman year!
Mark Lancaster
Vice President
Class: 2027
Major: ECE
Favorite PSQ Memory: Going to California for QWest last year!
Elizabeth Peng
Treasurer
Class: 2027
Major: ORFE
Carlos Aguiar Alfonzo
Hackathon Officer
Class: 2029
Major: ECE
Favorite PSQ Memory: Vibecoding at MIT iQuhack and testing it on IQM quantum computers!
Parth Jain
Hackathon Officer
Class: 2028
Major: Physics
Favorite PSQ Memory: Quantum algorithms workshop with Thomas!
Anira Otgochuluu
Trip Officer
Class: 2027
Major: Physics + CS minor
Favorite PSQ Memory: Traveling to California, visiting quantum companies for QWest 2025!
Ari Gomez Zambrano
Trip Officer
Class: 2029
Major: ECE
Favorite PSQ Memory: Having dinner with professors who are leading researchers in the quantum computing field!
Hannah Nichols
Event Officer
Class: 2029
Major: COS
Favorite PSQ Memory: Talking to representatives from quantum computing companies at iQuHack!
Ian Lam
Event Officer
Class: 2029
Major: Physics
Favorite PSQ Memory: Traveling to Yale and meeting industry leaders in quantum computing at YQuantum!
Kathie Wang
Social Officer
Class: 2029
Major: ECE
Favorite PSQ Memory: Meeting new people who are also excited about quantum, through PSQ!
Megan Zhao
Publicity Officer
Class: 2029
Major: COS
Favorite PSQ Memory: seeing Boston/MIT in the snow during iQuHack!
Alumni Officers
Jeremiah Coleman
President | Graduate
Jeremiah is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is working in the Houck Lab on fabricating novel junctions such as quantum phase slip wires for new protected superconducting qubits to be used in quantum error correction. He has experience designing benchmarking protocols for quantum computers with the QED-C and quantum circuit design software at Google Quantum AI. He received his undergraduate degrees at Stanford and was the former President of the Stanford Quantum Computing Association.
Pranav Mathur
President | Undergraduate
Pranav Mathur is a junior in the ECE department and hails from Northern Virginia. He is interested in researching how to build large-scale quantum computing systems and is currently doing research in Prof. Jeff Thompson’s lab. Outside of quantum computing and PSQ, Pranav enjoys dancing with Naacho South Asian Dance Company, solving the New York Times Crossword, and spending time outdoors biking or running.
Vincent Cai
Vice President | Undergraduate
Vincent is a senior majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is interested in condensed matter theory and engineering quantum devices.
Vivian Huang
Industry and Events Officer | Undergraduate
Vivian is a senior majoring in Physics with a minor in Computer Science. She is broadly interested in quantum information and has research experience in neutral atom quantum computing, quantum networks, and simulations of open quantum systems. Outside of academics, she enjoys rock climbing and photography.
Peter Wu
Treasurer | Undergraduate
Hi! My name is Peter, the PSQ Treasurer! Academically, I am interested in quantum simulations using cold atoms and molecules. In my free time, I like to sing and procrastinate.
Pem Kazemikhah
Treasurer | Graduate
Payman (Pem) is a second year PhD student and a member in the Mikhailova Lab (ETOILES) working on generating Quantum Entanglement in high frequency ranges with applications in quantum sensing/metrology, imaging/microscopy and spectroscopy. He is interested in attosecond science, quantum optics, high harmonic generation (HHG) and the intersection of these fields. Payman received his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Tehran working on quantum information and their enabling technologies.
Daohong Xu
Trip Officer | Graduate
Daohong is a second-year graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is working with Prof. Jeff Thompson and Prof. Sarang Gopalakrishnan on theoretical quantum information, with a focus on quantum error correction. He earned his undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the University of Chicago, where he conducted research in experimental quantum sensing and theoretical quantum computing. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, classical music, and soccer.
Sanjana Venkatesh
Trip Officer | Undergraduate
Sanjana Venkatesh is a junior in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with interests in bioelectronics and biological control systems. As a member of the Berry Lab (Department of Neuroscience), she is modeling mechanisms of computation within individual neurons. In her free time, Sanjana loves to run, read, and discover new foods.
Thomas Verrill
Hackathon Officer and President Emeritus | Graduate
Thomas Verrill is an ECE M. Eng. student working on creating and testing low frequency superconducting qubits in the Houck Lab. Outside of schoolwork, he plays guitar and composes jazz and electronic music.
Adi Biswas
Hackathon Officer | Undergraduate
Adi is a prospective physics major, planning to minor in humanistic studies, computational biology, and mathematics. He is currently working on research with invasive species propagation through networks of farms and exploring how the mathematical machinery developed for physics can be used to study biological systems. With his free time, he reads science fiction, plays the violin, and does taekwondo.
Shail Patel
Events Officer | Undergraduate
Shail is a junior majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He previously conducted research in Gmachl’s lab on Quantum Cascade Lasers. Now, he is starting to explore his interest in superconducting qubits.
Sasha Cocquyt
Events Officer | Undergraduate
Sasha is a sophomore in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Her interest in quantum computing began in high school, and since then she’s been motivated to get others involved in the field. In her free time, she enjoys making art, going on long bike rides, and perfecting her brownie recipe.
Sonia Cherian
Events Officer | Undergraduate
Dharmil Bhavsar
Publicity Officer | Undergraduate
Hello, I’m Dharmil, a Molecular Biology major in the Class of 2026! I’m looking forward to learning more about and raising awareness of the fundamentals of quantum science and its growing role in the future of technology and research.
Rin Kuroda
Treasurer | Undergraduate
Rin Kuroda is a senior in the Physics Department interested in AMO physics, quantum information, snowboarding, and photography.
Elizabeth Medina
Social and Outreach Officer | Undergraduate
Elizabeth is a senior in the ECE department on the Quantum Information and Applied Physics track. She’s eager to introduce other students to the weird, yet brilliant, world of quantum and is looking forward to getting to know the rest of the club members. These days, you can find her working on her thesis in Princeton’s Houck Lab. In her free time, she enjoys playing the ukulele and making digital art (including cartoons for the Daily Princetonian).
Shashwat Kumar
General Events Officer | Graduate
Shashwat is a third year PhD student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He works on quantum computing with superconducting qubits in the Houck Lab. He is interested in novel qubit designs and intrinsically error-protected qubits.
Eric Jung
General Events Officer | Undergraduate
Hello, my name is Eric Yale Jung and I am a sophomore in the COS BSE department. I find the hardware and physics of quantum computing very fascinating, but my interests mostly lie in the pseudo-theoretical algorithms and programming/software aspects. I hope to be involved in and pursue the field of quantum computer science in the future.
Athan Zhang
Events Planning Officer | Undergraduate
Athan is a Computer Science major at Princeton with side interests in Quantum Computing and Optimization. His passion for Quantum started in high school, where he was one of six juniors in his Electrodynamics class and completed research using VQAs to identify time-series anomalies in cryptocurrency prices for his senior research project. He’s self driven, being an avid member of the Qiskit community and school.
Yufei Zheng
General Events Officer | Graduate
George Zhou
Founding President | Undergraduate
Areeq Hasan
Founding Vice President | Undergraduate
Alexander Haywood
Founding Social Chair | Undergraduate
Noah Luch
Founding Outreach Director | Undergraduate
Alex Zhang
Founding Secretary | Undergraduate
Lu Esteban
Founding Treasurer | Undergraduate
