Quantum Photonics Group - Prof. Englund, MIT

I am a PhD student at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where I work in the Quantum Photonics Group of Professor Dirk Englund. My research focuses on using the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in diamond for quantum information applications. In particular, I'm interested in developing photonic nanostructures for efficienctly interfacing with the NV electronic spin, with an ultimate goal of building multi-qubit on-chip registers for quantum computation and long-distance quantum communication.

Cavity Quantum Optics Group - Prof. Theodor Hänsch and Dr. David Hunger, MPQ

After graduating from Harvard, I accepted a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Germany and work under the Chair of Professor Ted Hänsch. My specific work was in the Cavity Quantum Optics Group, run by Dr. David Hunger. While there, I worked to chacterize how Rayleigh scatterers affect the mode structure and performance of fiber-based microcavities. This work was presented at the German Physical Society Spring Meeting in Heidelberg.

Quantum Optics Group - Prof. Mikhail Lukin, Harvard

​As a member of the Lukin Group, I helped develop techniques for precision depth-determination of shallow implanted  (less than 20 nm) NV centers using nuclear magnetic resonance signals from immersion oil. Building on this project, I worked to perform detection and spectroscopy of single proteins attached to bulk diamond surfaces, culminating in an NMR measurement of single ubiquitin molecules.