Group
current members and alumni of the Lee group
Assistant Professor
Office: ESB 3113
jongyeon [at] illinois.edu
Jong Yeon Lee
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Anthony Leggett Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and IQUIST).
- 2011 – 2015: California Institute of Technology, B.S./M.S. in Physics and Mathematics (advisor: John Preskill)
- 2015 – 2020: Harvard University, Ph.D. in Physics (advisor: Ashvin Vishwanath)
- 2020 – 2023: Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Gordon and Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow
- 2023 – 2024: University of California, Berkeley, Research Scholar
- 2024 – present: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Assistant Professor
- 2025 – present: Korea Institute for Advanced Study (Seoul, Korea), Quantum Universe Scholar
Jintae Kim
Postdoctoral fellow.
Recent papers
- Transparent Domain Walls through Information Convex Sets, arXiv:2609.26892
- Noninvertible symmetry and topological holography for modulated SPT in one dimension, SciPost Phys. 19, 110 (2025)
- Gauging Modulated Symmetries via Multiple Gauge Symmetry Operators and Adaptive Quantum Circuits, Phys. Rev. B 113, 085139 (2026)
Akash Vijay
Graduate student.
Recent papers
- Stability of Quantum LDPC States under Local Pauli Noise, arXiv:2610.22357
- Short-Range Vector Spin Glasses: Parisi Hierarchies and Real-Space Ultrametricity, arXiv:2610.12441
- Rényi Phase Transitions and Analytic Continuation to the von Neumann Entropy, arXiv:2609.30386
Graduate Student
rishil2 [at] illinois.edu
Rishi Lohar
Graduate student.
Recent papers
- Collective magnetism of atomic momentum states, arXiv:2502.09293
Tai-Hsuan Yang
Graduate student.
Recent papers
- Stability of Quantum LDPC States under Local Pauli Noise, arXiv:2610.22357
- Topological Mixed States: Phases of Matter from Axiomatic Approaches, Phys. Rev. X 16, 041002 (2026)
- When can classical neural networks represent quantum states?, arXiv:2410.23152
Yuta Hirasaki
Graduate student.
Recent papers
- Logical CCZ state cultivation, arXiv:2610.20591
- Lifting Lifted Product Codes, arXiv:2607.28621
- Shift of quantum critical point of discrete time crystal on a noisy quantum simulator, arXiv:2509.18474
Graduate Student
adk7 [at] illinois.edu
Drew Kim
Graduate student.
Recent papers
- Stability of Quantum LDPC States under Local Pauli Noise, arXiv:2610.22357
- Liouvillian Gap in Dissipative Haar-Doped Clifford Circuits, arXiv:2602.03234
- Field-induced magnon decays in dipolar quantum magnets, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 046703 (2025)
Shashwat Chakraborty
Graduate student.
Recent papers
Alumni
- Bowen Shi (postdoctoral fellow) — now Assistant Professor at the Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA), from August 2026
- Olumakinde Ogunnaike (Ph.D. 2024) — now a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley