Summary
Caitao Zhan is a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory specializing in quantum networking, computing, and sensing, with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industrial engineering. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, where his work spanned datacenter and wireless networks, ML-driven networking, and quantum communication under Prof. Himanshu Gupta. Caitao has hands-on experience in production-scale identity services from an internship on Microsoft Azure Identity and a strong teaching background in algorithms and statistics. He combines rigorous theoretical training (3.9 GPA) with practical systems work, applying machine learning techniques to classical and quantum networking problems. Based in Chicago, he is driven by continual self-improvement—evident from a GitHub ethos of iterative evolution—and brings both experimental rigor and software engineering discipline to emerging quantum network challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at NO.1 Middle School Affiliated to Central China Normal University
Bachelor's, Computer Science and Technology, GPA: 92/100, Bachelor's, Computer Science and Technology, GPA: 92/100 at China University of Geosciences
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, GPA: 3.9/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, GPA: 3.9/4.0 at Stony Brook University
Chinese, English