People

Mayhall Group, Aug 2025


Current group members

Nick Mayhall

  • Role: PI
  • Postdoc: UC Berkeley
  • PhD: Indiana University, 2011
  • BS: University of Southern Indiana, 2006
  • Email: nmayhall@iu.edu
  • CV
  • Google Scholar


Aarón Rodríguez Jiménez

  • Role: Postdoc
  • PhD: Donostia/Spain (Advisors: David Casanova and Eduard Matito)
  • Email: aarodr@iu.edu
  • Projects: Quantum Algorithms


Arnab Bachhar

  • Role: Grad Student
  • BS/MS: RKMV Belur/IIT Bombay
  • Email: arnab22@vt.edu
  • Projects: FermiCG


Harjeet Singh

  • Role: Grad Student
  • BS/MS: U of Delhi/IIT Bombay
  • Email: harjeetsingh@vt.edu
  • Projects: FermiCG


Chinmay Shrikhande

  • Role: Grad Student
  • BS/MS: IIT Bombay
  • Email: chinmays@vt.edu
  • Projects: PauliOperators


Alumni

Kyle Sherbert

  • Role: Postdoc
  • Current position: Assistant Prof. Holy Cross College at Notre Dame
  • PhD: U of North Texas (Advisor: Marco Nardelli)
  • MS: U of North Texas
  • Email: KSherbert@hcc-nd.edu
  • Projects: ctrl-VQE


Robert Smith

  • Role: Grad Student
  • BS: Virginia Tech
  • Email: robs84@vt.edu
  • Projects: Quantum embedding models


Nicole Braunscheidel

  • Role: Grad Student
  • Current position: ARC at VT
  • BS: Ohio Northern University
  • Email: nbraunsc@vt.edu
  • Projects: Fragmentation for spin qubits, Tensor product wavefunctions


Diksha Dhawan

  • Role: Postdoc
  • Current position: Xanadu
  • PhD: U of Michigan (Advisor: Dominika Zgid)
  • MS: U of Hyderabad (Advisor: Durga Prasad)
  • Email: ddhawan@vt.edu
  • Projects: Variational quantum algorithms, ctrl-VQE


Ayush Asthana

  • Role: Postdoc
  • Current position: Assistant Professor at University of North Dakota
  • PhD: Johns Hopkins University (Advisor: Lan Cheng)
  • MS: IIT Kanpur (Advisors: Debashis Mukherjee (IACS) and Srihari Keshavamurthy (IITK))
  • Projects: VQAs
  • Link


Luke Bertels

  • Role: Postdoc
  • Current position: Wigner Fellow at Oakridge National Lab
  • PhD: UC Berkeley (Advisor: Martin Head-Gordon)
  • BS: University of Chicago (Advisor: David Mazziotti)
  • Email: lwbertels@vt.edu
  • Projects: VQE algorithms
  • Link


Harper Grimsley

  • Role: Grad Student
  • Current position: Postdoc with Francesco Evangelista at University of Emory
  • BS: University of Arkansas
  • Email: hrgrimsl@vt.edu
  • Projects: Variational quantum algorithms


Vibin Abraham

  • Role: Grad Student
  • Current position: Postdoc with Dominika Zgid at University of Michigan
  • MS: Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay)
  • Email: vibin1@vt.edu
  • Projects: Tensor product wavefunctions, Singlet-fission, model Hamiltonians


Shannon Houck

  • Role: Grad Student
  • BS: University of Richmond
  • Email: shouck@vt.edu
  • Projects: Fock-space CI method development, model Hamiltonians, embedding
  • Current position: QChem


Oinam Meitei

  • Role: Postdoc
  • Current position: MIT (Van Voorhis group)
  • PhD: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Advisor: Andreas Hesselmann)
  • BS: University of Madras
  • Projects: Spin-orbit coupling, ctrl-VQE


Daniel Claudino

  • Role: Postdoc
  • Current position: Research Scientist at Oakridge National Laboratory
  • PhD: University of Florida (Advisor: Rod Bartlett)
  • BS: University of Sao Paulo
  • Projects: Projection-embedding, VQE algorithms
  • Link


Old group photos

Dec 2022


March 2022


August 2021


Zoom, July 2020


Nick's house, July 2019


Mellow Mushroom, Dec 2018


Duck Pond, Oct 2016