Members

Group Leader
  • Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Assistant Professor of Physics (Affiliate Appointment)

Education:

  • Ph.D. in Physics, Texas A&M University (Advisor: Marlan Scully)
  • M. Sc (5-Yr. Integrated) in Physics, I.I.T Kanpur

Research Experiences:

  • Postdoctoral Associate: Caltech, Applied Physics and Materials Science (Advisor: Harry Atwater)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: UC Berkeley, NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (Advisor: Xiang Zhang)

Postdoctoral Fellows:

  • Name: Aswini Kumar Pattanayak
  • Research Interest: 2D materials and Quantum optics
  • Research Experience: Light-matter interaction in 2D semiconductors, Structured light beam
  • PhD: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, 2023
  • MS: Physics, Ravenshaw University
  • From: India
  • Favorite Scientist: Marie Curie

Graduate Students:

PhD (ECE): 2023 –
  • Name: Jagi Rout
  • Research Interest: To explore condensed matter physics by manipulating quantum devices employing the state-of-the-art nanofabrication techniques
  • Research Experience: Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science (I.I.Sc) Bangalore 2019-2022
  • MS: Physics, Central University of Karnataka, 2019
  • BS: Physics, Ravenshaw University, 2017
  • From: Rayagada, Odisha, India
  • Favorite Scientist: Nikola Tesla
PhD (ECE): 2023-
  • Name: Amir Targholizadeh
  • Research Interest: Quantum Photonics and Metasurfaces
  • Research Experience: Spatiotemporal Lattices, Non-Hermitian Physics
  • MS: Physics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 2023
  • BS: Physics, University of Tehran, 2021
  • From: Iran
  • Favorite Scientist: Richard Feynman

Undergraduate Students:

BE (AE): 2022 –
  • Name: Theodore D. Todorov
  • Research Interest: Satellite and Space Technology & Photonic Application in Space
  • BE: Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University (Current, expected graduation 2026)
  • From: Syracuse, NY, USA
  • Favorite Scientist: Richard Feynman
BE (EECS): 2023 –
  • Name: Grisha Nikulin
  • Research Interest: Superconducting Qubit Architecture and Quantum Algorithms
  • BE: Electrical Engineering, Syracuse University (Current, expected graduation 2026)
  • From: Houston, TX, USA
  • Favorite Scientist: Carl Sagan

Alumni

Benjamin Petrie: Engineering Science, Onondaga Community College (Summer 2024)