Bio

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. From 2022-2025, I was a postdoc at Harvard, funded by a Junior Fellowship from the Harvard Society of Fellows. There, I worked on various problems of quantum and nonlinear optics. I completed my PhD in the Physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016-2022), as a Computational Science Graduate Fellow of the US Department of Energy (2016-2020) and a Dean’s Fellow of the MIT School of Science (2020-2022). For my thesis work, I was awarded the Andrew M. Lockett III Memorial Prize. My primary thesis supervisor was Prof. Marin Soljacic, but I have also worked closely with Prof. John Joannopoulos (MIT) and Prof. Ido Kaminer (Technion), as well as many others. In 2016, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2016). For my bachelor’s thesis, I received the LeRoy Apker Award of the American Physical Society.

Awards

• Tingye Li Innovation Prize, Optica
• Andrew M. Lockett III Memorial Fund Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows
• LeRoy Apker Award, American Physical Society