Designed and built cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy system, incl. fast PDI feedback electronics for cavity stabilization, liquid flow circuits, heterodyne detection.
Research in quantum optics/quantum information processing: theory of photonic crystal design; fabrication of photonic crystal devices for quantum and classical information processing, including single photon sources, coherent control, lasers, modulators. Teaching assistant for five quarters in quantum mechanics and photonic nanostructures. Mentored five undergraduates in physics projects.
Team proposed, designed, and built a microgravity research project forming high-Q microsphere resonators in ZBLAN. Ran the experiment on NASA’s KC-135 plane.
Designed and built system for ultrafast magneto-optic nanoscopy. Built prototype refectivity-mode, polarization-sensitive scanning near-field optical microscope.
AWARDS
2002 U.S. Fulbright Fellow
1998-2002 Caltech Axline Merit Scholar
2003 European Space Agency Fellowship for International Space University
2003 Stanford Graduate Fellow, Mayfield Fellow
2007-09 NSF Fellow
2004-07 NDSEG Fellow
2002 Caltech Kathori Thesis Prize in Physics
1998 Graduated 1st from Westlake High School
2007 Stanford Entrepreneurship Challenge - 3rd place / 125
2008 Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS
programming: web programming (e.g., cvitae.org), scientific (C, matlab, TCL)
languages: English & German (native)
sports: track; triathlon (141th in '06 Collegiates Nationals, Ironman 11:36:05); Boston marathon '08, 2hr:50min,
entrepreneurship: Stanford E-Challenge: Led team to 3rd place (out of 125 teams) for telecom startup proposal (2007); Co-founder of CVitae.org
Physics and applications of quantum dots in photonic crystals, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Bryan Ellis, and Jelena Vuckovic,, Invited book chapter in Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots, edited by Peter Michler, to be published by Springer Book series NanoScience and Technology (2008)