I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Integrated Quantum Photonics at the University of Toronto & Xanadu. My long-standing interest has always been in understanding the true nature of light, its properties, and its applications in both the classical and quantum domains. I started my academic path toward knowing photons as an undergraduate student in Optics and Laser Engineering. Learning about different optical devices and how one can design them excited me even more, so I decided to pursue a master’s degree in Photonics. I started working on optical metamaterials and designing fishnet metamaterials that exhibit both negative permittivity and permeability in the visible light region (400-700 nm). I continued my academic journey by joining Prof. Dignam’s research group at Queen’s University as a Ph.D. student in Physics working on the dynamics of classical and nonclassical states of light in integrated waveguide platforms. Nonclassical states of light possess unique properties such as squeezing, antibunching, and entanglement, which have led to various interesting applications in quantum computing, quantum teleportation, and quantum information. After graduation, I decided to join Prof. Sipe’s group as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto to collaborate with researchers at Xanadu on cutting-edge projects in the photonic-base quantum computing industry.

Research Interests

• Integrated Quantum Photonics
• Generation, Control, and Measurement of Quantum Light
• Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning