Designed novel nanophotonic metasurfaces to achieve tunable entangled photon production via nonlinear frequency conversion. Achieved first time design attaining visible/near-IR non-degenerate entanglement for quantum imaging interferometry applications. Conducted extensive numerical simulations in Ansys Lumerical, FDTD, RCWA, and inverse design via coupled nonlinear optimization with gradient-based topology optimization and other techniques. Synthesized entirety of existing literature results, extended to this novel application domain, providing Sony a path towards future development and manufacture.

Authored, published, and presented work at SC23 Fourth International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software: “BGLS: A Python Package for the Gate-by-Gate Sampling Algorithm to Simulate Quantum Circuits” DOI: 10.1145/3624062.3624215. Unitary Fund grant recipient. Developed novel implementation of a computationally efficient algorithm for the classical simulation of quantum state measurement, state of the art for tensor network representations. Optimized software, integrated with backend codebase of Google’s Cirq framework, enabling parallelized and noisy sampling of arbitrary quantum state representations. Introduced novel approximate sampling of near-Clifford circuits.

Investigated shape-shifting liquid crystals and baromorphs: designing the planar director field to attain arbitrary desired curved geometries on actuation. Analyzed director field of 3D sheets by numerically computing relevant differential equations on manifolds. Fabricated silicon wafers utilizing photolithography, mask writing, silicon etching, etc. at Cornell’s CNF. Extended analysis with differential geometry for curved initial surfaces, multiple actuated surfaces, arbitrary materials, while working remotely. Independently planned, designed, and executed follow-up project from ground up: creating locally-actuating ethanol-based devices. Developed and printed CAD models, curing silicone molds, numerically extracted actuated curvatures obtained from experimental measurements