November, 2025: Our paper on "Ultranarrow Bright Single-Photon Emitters in Diamond with Strong Broadband Phonon Decoupling" is out on arXiv.
August, 2025: I presented an invited talk and poster on our work of a newly discovered ultranarrow and bright single-photon emitter, at the Gordon Research Seminar on Quantum Control of Light (Rhode Island).
April, 2025: I am honored to receive the John Bardeen Memorial Graduate Research Award and the Gregory Stillman Semiconductor Research Award.
May, 2024: I presented our paper on "FiND: Few-shot three-dimensional image-free confocal focusing on point-like emitters" at CLEO 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
April, 2024: I am honored to receive Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Award, and the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship for a second time.
November, 2023: I passed my PhD. preliminary examination and am now a PhD. candidate!
November, 2023: Our paper on "FiND: Few-shot three-dimensional image-free confocal focusing on point-like emitters" is out on arXiv.
June, 2023: I am honored to receive SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, 2023.
April, 2023: I am honored to receive the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship from the ECE department, UIUC.
December, 2022: Our review paper "Hybrid quantum nanophotonic devices with color centers in nanodiamonds" is now published in Optical Materials Express.
July, 2022: Our review paper on hybrid quantum nanophotonic devices with color centers in nanodiamonds is out on arXiv.
May, 2022: I am honored to be selected as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow (MF3), in the CoE program designed to facilitate the training for the next generation of engineering professors.
December, 2021: I am honored to receive the J.A. Woollam Company Scholarship from the SVC Foundation.
December, 2021: I passed my PhD. qualifying examination!
June, 2021: Our paper on rapid absolute sizing of dielectric nanoparticles by confocal microscopy has been published in Applied Physics Letters.
August, 2020: I started my PhD. in ECE at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC).