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Assistant Professor, University of Maryland College Park (2022 – Present)

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, 2021

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Minor: Applied Physics), Cornell University, 2017

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & ECE, (Minor: Physics) IIT Kharagpur, 2011

Saumya exemplifies the long tradition of (half-blood) physicists who did their undergrad in Engineering and graduate (and/or postdoctoral work) in superposition of engineering and physics (Universities of California-Oregon-Maryland). He has wildly varying interests in condensed matter and quantum information theory, and in calculating things. He is a defensive chess player, a full-back in soccer, and an out-of-touch caricaturist. He obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oregon, and a B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Link to personal site

Antoine received his Ph.D. in quantum optics from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris in France, where he studied quantum state generation from integrated sources, and their manipulation in the frequency domain. Along with cultivating and developing strong skills and interest in quantum information and quantum optics, he gained a strong interest in integrated photonics. He joined the group in 2024 as a postdoc. Outside the lab, he enjoys playing music, running, and rock climbing.

Sashank pursued his undergraduate degree at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras majoring in Engineering Physics, where he learned quantum mechanics and embraced a probabilistic life. He is currently interested in how photons can interact with and mimic matter, and live a topologically nontrivial life on a chip. He also loves basketball, setting and solving cryptic crosswords, singing and traveling.

Nate graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2021, receiving a triple major in Physics, Engineering Physics, and Mathematics, along with a certificate in Semiconductor Materials and Devices. He is now a Chemical Physics PhD student in the FloQuET lab working on using synthetic dimensions to enable topological photonics.

Frank received his Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Rochester in Optical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering. He joined the group in 2023 with interests in the dynamics of the optical frequency comb and the generation of on-chip squeezed light. He loves swimming and playing tennis in his spare time.

Rohith joined the group in Spring 2024. After his undergrad in Electrical & Computer Engineering at PES University, he pursued a Master of Science in Optics at the University of Rochester. His hobbies include video games, board games, piano and watching basketball and baseball. He is interested in frequency-domain topological photonics, focusing on novel experimental techniques for topological Hamiltonian simulation.

Ping-Yen is a PhD student from the Department of Photonics at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His prior works focused on monolithic integration between silicon photonics and metasurfaces. He joined the FloQuET lab as a visiting research scholar in June 2024. He currently works on on-chip quantum and nonlinear photonics.

Samyak completed a Bachelor in Technology in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi where he developed interest in optics while trying to find a balance between theory and experiment.  As opposed to Dirac’s (addressing Oppenheimer) take on incompatibility of poetry and science, he’s been struggling to find a balance there too. He’s been struggling to find a balance between the two. He likes singing and listening to semi-classical Indian music and is an amateur drummer. Other hobbies include hiking, cycling, stargazing, and reading philosophy. He currently works on nonlinear optics and topological photonics.