Team

Principal Investigator

Victoria Xu – Assistant Professor, Physics
Berkeley Physics | CV |
vax [at) berkeley [dot) edu

Ph.D. Physics, UC Berkeley
B.S. Physics, UC Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Maryrose Barrios
mbarrios [at) berkeley [dot) edu

Research areas: LIGO instrumentation, squeezed light

Graduate Students

Katie Gray
katiegray [at) berkeley [dot) edu

Fall 2025 - Present

Research areas: tunable frequency-dependent squeezing, quantum noise in LIGO, spin-statistics

Celeste Virador
cvirador [at) berkeley [dot) edu

Spring 2026 - Present

Research areas: tunable frequency-dependent squeezing, tunable filter cavity

Aditi Anand
aditibanand [at) berkeley [dot) edu

Fall 2026 - Present

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Mark Zhu

Fall 2026 - Present

Undergraduate Students

Max Umminger

Summer 2026 - Present

Pi^2 Scholar, Summer 2026
(Grad mentor: Katie)

Lauren Lee

Summer 2026 - Present

UC LEADS Scholar, Summer 2026

Shrey Goel

Fall 2026 - Present

Senior thesis student

Visitors

Valeria Rocha

Mascots

Vulpix (Pixie)
woof [at) you [dot) edu

Research interests: human joy, smallest laser doggles, sturdiest lamb chops

Lab Alumni

Name	Position	Time in group	Next position
Jaime Alvarez	Undergraduate researcher (+Goldwater fellow, +Haas Scholar) Honors thesis: Characterization of a fiber-coupled PPLN second harmonic generator	Spring 2025 - Spring 2026	Graduate student at MIT

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