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I am an optical designer working remotely for the Leidos Innovations Center. Much of my work involves imaging systems for space payloads, but I also spend some time thinking about nascent (=low TRL) technologies in the areas of photonics and quantum sensing.

I can’t say a lot about my current work here, but you can get a better sense about what I am interested in from my academic output. Before my career in industry, I was a postdoc in Amir Arbabi’s group at UMass Amherst, where I did experimental optics research. My projects at UMass mostly involved dielectric metasurfaces, a new-ish approach to diffractive optics. During my PhD (and before) I worked on projects to interface optical cavities and waveguides with trapped ions or ultracold neutral atoms (cavity QED and waveguide QED).

Outside of research, I am interested in making the perfect cup of coffee, enjoy trivia games and playing guitar, and enthusiastically start programming projects I am unlikely to finish.

Opinions here are my own and do not represent those of my employer.

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