PhD candidate in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. I work on quantum and nonlinear photonic chips — turning hard physics into working hardware, from on-chip squeezed-light sources to efficient optical amplifiers.
I am a PhD candidate in the Safavi-Naeini Group (LINQS) at Stanford University. The theme of my PhD is making quantum technologies useful — and in particular building the photonics-based quantum hardware that takes quantum and nonlinear optics out of the lab and onto a chip.
I design, nanofabricate, and characterize photonic integrated circuits on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) — the platform reshaping how light is generated, controlled, and measured on a chip. My work spans the full stack: from device physics and simulation, through cleanroom fabrication, to building the optical and electronic experiments that prove a device works. This work spans an on-chip squeezed-light source with full quantum-state tomography on TFLN, record-efficiency blue-light generation, and a low-power optical amplifier that intensifies light 100× on a chip.
I love taking hard ideas and turning them into working hardware, and I am drawn to ambitious problems where rigorous science becomes real-world technology. I'm always glad to connect — feel free to reach out.
Nonlinear & quantum photonic device design — OPOs, resonators, second-harmonic and parametric amplifiers — backed by Lumerical / COMSOL modeling.
End-to-end thin-film lithium niobate processing: e-beam and photolithography, RIE/ICP dry etching, wet etching, thin-film deposition, and periodic poling.
Homodyne/heterodyne detection, squeezed-light measurement, quantum-state tomography, and fiber-to-chip photonic test setups.
Python/MATLAB instrument control (GPIB/serial), automated parameter sweeps, and LLM-assisted CAD layout, simulation, and data pipelines.