Talks

Invited talks

Interpretable AI for physics and photonics applications
SPIE Photonics West (January 2025) | San Francisco, California

Topological treks through non-orientable spaces and noisy landscapes
Special Condensed Matter Seminar at Emory University (November 2024) | Atlanta, Georgia
Host: Prof. Wladimir Benalcazar

Frontiers in nanophotonics, quantum optics, and interpretable AI for physics
CINT colloquium at Sandia National Laboratories (October 2024) | Albuquerque, New Mexico
Host: Dr. Alexander Cerjan

Emerging paradigms in nanophotonics
Host: Prof. Boubacar Kanté and Prof. Eli Yablonovitch at UC Berkeley (October 2024) | Berkeley, California

Advances in topological insulators and semimetals
Host: Prof. Shanhui Fan at Stanford University (June 2024) | Stanford, California

Topological photonic crystals in one, two and three dimensions
Host: Prof. Marin Soljačić at MIT (October 2022) | Cambridge, Massachusetts

Contributed talks

Unidirectional flow of quantum noise through non-reciprocity – upcoming
APS Global Physics Summit (March 2025) | Anaheim, California

Weyl points on non-orientable manifolds
MRS Fall Meeting (December 2024) | Boston, Massachusetts

Photonic Weyl points on non-orientable Brillouin zones
CLEO (May 2024) | Charlotte, North Carolina

Localization and reentrant delocalization transitions in one-dimensional photonic quasicrystals
APS March Meeting (March 2024) | Minneapolis, Minnesota

Polarization-induced topological edge and corner States in Chern photonic crystals
CLEO (May 2023) | San Jose, California

Photonic Chern and Weyl systems in multilayer structures via dimensional extension
CLEO (May 2023) | San Jose, California

Polarization and corner charge in Chern insulators
APS March Meeting (March 2023) | Las Vegas, Nevada

Point-defect localized photonic bound states in the continuum
DAMOP (June 2021) | Virtual Conference

Observation of charge-2 photonic Weyl point
CLEO (May 2020) | Virtual Conference

Grant Reviews

Title TBD – upcoming
Office of Naval Research (ONR) MURI Review (May 2025) at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Non-reciprocal topological control of quantum noise
DARPA PhENOM quarterly program review (QPR) (October 2024) | Virtual

Development of advanced nanophotonic scintillators
DARPA PhENOM Kickoff (June 2024) | Virtual

Advances in topological band theory
Office of Naval Research (ONR) MURI Review (April 2024) at University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Novel topological phases in photonic crystals
Office of Naval Research (ONR) MURI Review (April 2023) at University of Southern California | Los Angeles, California

Observation of quadratic Weyl point splitting in 3D micro-printed photonic crystals
Office of Naval Research (ONR) MURI Review (April 2021) | Virtual

Other talks

Symmetry-indicator invariants: bridging the gap in topological band theory
MIT CMT Journal Club (2023) | Cambridge, Massachusetts

Weyl points in 3D photonic crystals
Peter Eklund Award Finalist at Penn State (2023) | State College, Pennsylvania

Quantized polarization and fractional corner charge in Chern insulators
Office of Naval Research (ONR) MURI Seminar (2022) | Virtual

Weyl points and BICs in 3D micro-printed photonic crystals
Nanoscribe User Meeting (2021) | Virtual

Posters

Volumetric photonic crystal scintillators
MRS Fall Meeting (2024) | Boston, Massachusetts

Topological phases on the real projective plane
APS March Meeting (2024) | Minneapolis, Minnesota

Point-defect localized photonic bound states in the continuum
Office of Naval Research (ONR) MURI Poster Session (2021) | Virtual