•Performing micron-scale photoluminescence mapping on the diffusion of charge carriers in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite materials for solar applications utilizing a confocal microscope and avalanche photodiode•Modeled and determined perovskite solar cell efficiency gains due to waveguided photon emission and reabsorption during device operation•Lead member of MIT GridEdge Solar program developing large-scale, flexible and lightweight perovskite solar cell architectures•Helped develop and trial an automated photovoltaic J-V testing system for perovskite solar cells•Designed and developed an automated time-resolved photoluminescence testing system for perovskite and quantum dot materials•Devised and created Frequency-Resolved-Optical-Gating (FROG) setup for measuring ultrafast laser pulse duration•Wrote multithreaded GUI program using Qt framework for automated acquisition of microscale diffusion scans, spectrographs and FROG scans•Advised and mentored two undergraduate students on independent research projects pertaining photovoltaics

Investigated photophysical properties and non-radiative recombination pathways of lead halide perovskites in the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Laboratory

Graphene Research with the Nanomaterials and Electronics Group