Education

• 2013 PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

  • Advisor: Prof. David A.B. Miller
    

• 2010 MS in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

• 2007 BE(Hons.) in Electronics and Instrumentation, BITS-Pilani

  • Research Advisor: Prof. Souri Banerjee

Employment

• 2019-Present: Associate Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol

• 2017-2019: Lecturer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol

• 2013-2016: CNST-UMD Postdoctoral Fellow at NIST, Gaithersburg

  • Supervisor: Dr. Kartik Srinivasan

• 2008-2013: Research Associate, Ginzton Lab, Stanford University

Internships

• 2013: Summer Intern, Samsung Display America Lab, San Jose

  • Supervisors: Drs. Jiuzhi Xue and David Hoffman

• 2007 Visiting Student (undergraduate thesis), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

  • Thesis supervisor: Prof. Pratap Raychaudhuri

Awards and Honors

• Starting Grant Award from the European Research Council

• Finalist, Tingye Li Innovation Prize, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2016)

• Second Place (Chemsitry, Engg & Math), NIST Sigma-Xi Postdoctoral Poster presentation (2015).

• ST Microelectronics Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2007-2012)

• Third Place Poster Award, International Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop (iNOW 2009).

Patents

• Self-aligned semiconductor ridges in metallic slits as a platform for tunable nanoscale resonant photodetectors, 8829633

• Selective area growth of Ge and SiGe in silicon waveguides for on-chip optical interconnect applications, 9368579

• Embedded optical sensors using transverse Fabry-Perot resonator as detectors, 9520510