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Recent Activity

3/31/2013: Updated NSF GRFP advice and added new essays

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Educational Background


Boston University

PhD Candidate in Physics. Graduate 2015 (hopefully)

Masters in Physics. Graduated May 2012.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

BS in Physics and Math. Graduated May 2010.




Published Papers


4. Epigenetic landscapes explain partially reprogrammed cells and identify key reprogramming genes. By Alex H. Lang, Hu Li, James J. Collins, and Pankaj Mehta. arXiv.

3. Intrinsic noise of microRNA-regulated genes and the ceRNA hypothesis. By Javad Noorbakhsh, Alex H. Lang, and Pankaj Mehta. arXiv.

2. Suppression of Decoherence and Disentanglement by the Exchange Interaction. By Amrit De, Alex H. Lang, Dong Zhou, and Robert Joynt. Phy. Rev. A, Vol 83, Issue 4 (25 Apr 2011). arXiv. Published version.

1. Disentanglement and decoherence from classical non-Markovian noise: Random telegraph noise. By Dong Zhou, Alex Lang, and Robert Joynt. Quantum Info. Processing Vol 9, Number 6, 727-747 (2010). arXiv. Published version.


Undergraduate Research Projects


Quantum Computing, Spring 2009 - Summer 2010

Topic: Investigated effects of random telegraph noise on qubit decoherence and entanglement

Advisor: Professor Robert Joynt

Location: University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dept of Physics

Funding: Hilldale Research Fellowship and QuEST grant #MSN118850 

Results: 

1. Disentanglement and decoherence from classical non-Markovian noise: Random telegraph noise. By Dong Zhou, Alex Lang, and Robert Joynt. Quantum Info. Processing Vol 9, Number 6, 727-747 (2010). Paper on arXiv. Published version.

2. Suppression of Decoherence and Disentanglement by the Exchange Interaction. By Amrit De, Alex Lang, Dong Zhou, and Robert Joynt. Phy. Rev. A, Vol 83, Issue 4 (25 Apr 2011). Paper on arXiv. Published version.



Computational Modeling, Summer 2008


Topic: Contributed to the development of a program to efficiently model populations with individual behavior rules. 


Advisor: Professor Victor Barocas 


Location: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Dept of Biomedical Engineering 


Funding: MSI Supercomputing Institute Internship




High Energy Experiment, Summer 2007

Topic: Error analysis for a experiment at Fermilab to test components of the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). 


Advisor: Professor George Gollin 

Location: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dept of Physics 

Funding: National Science Foundation, Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) 

Results: SIMULATION, DESIGN, AND TESTING OF BEAMLINE INSTRUMENTATION FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LINEAR COLLIDER



Miscellaneous


Nationality: United States