About

I build optical systems. Lately I've been learning to build quantum ones too.

I work at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine, where I build swept-source interferometric systems and write inverse models that try to figure out what a sample is made of from how it scatters light. I've also built spectral unmixing pipelines for photoacoustic data and prototyped a broadband imaging system that uses individually addressable micro-LEDs instead of a swept laser. Before coming to Harvard I spent three years at Colorado School of Mines studying engineering physics, where I got to build solid-state lasers from scratch, violate the Bell inequality with entangled photon pairs, and design photon-counting circuits on an FPGA. These days I'm reading a lot about quantum information, quantum networks and photonic interconnects, and entanglement distribution between spin-based quantum nodes, and I'm applying to physics PhD programs for Fall 2027.

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Trajectory

  1. 2027 (target)

    PhD program

    Physics, Fall 2027 (applying)

    Pursuing a physics PhD in quantum information and quantum networks: photonic interconnects and entanglement distribution between spin-based quantum nodes.

  2. 2025 — present

    Research Engineer

    Wellman Center for Photomedicine · Harvard Medical School · MGH

    I build swept-source interferometric systems, write inverse models for spectral measurements, and prototype broadband micro-LED imaging hardware. First-author manuscript in preparation.

  3. 2023 — 2024

    Research Assistant & Project Lead

    Colorado School of Mines — Physics Department & Ultrafast Laser Lab

    Computed Fisher information metrics for Ising models to test holographic duality conjectures. Also led a five-person team designing supersonic gas nozzles for high harmonic generation.

  4. 2021 — 2024

    B.S. Engineering Physics

    Colorado School of Mines · 3.99 GPA

    Three years of quantum optics, laser physics, and electronics. Built solid-state lasers (Pr:YLF and Nd:YAG), measured Bell inequality violations with entangled photons, and designed a gated photon-counting circuit on an FPGA.

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