Academic Experience

• Harvard Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
  2023–
• Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Research Fellow
  2022
• Stanford Postdoc/ Research Scientist
  2018-2021/ 2021–2022
• Caltech Research Assistant/ Postdoc
  2011–2017/ 2017-2018
• Imperial College London Research Fellow
  2010
• KAIST Research Assistant
  2007-2010

Distinctions & Fellowships

• Young Investigator Award, ONR
  2026
• Young Investigator Award, AFOSR
  2025
• Young Faculty Award, DARPA
  2023
• Herbert Walther Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
  2022
• Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award, Optica (OSA)
  2020
• Nano‑ and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoc Fellowship, Stanford University
  2018
• Atwood Graduate Fellowship, California Institute of Technology
  2010

Publication Metrics

Professional Services

• Editor for Light:Science & Applications (2023-2028), Nanophotonics (2024-2025)
• Editorial Board for ACS Photonics (2023-Present), Nanophotonics (2025-Present)
• Guest Editor of ACS Photonics, Special Issue on Optimized Photonics and Inverse Design (2023); Nanophotonics, Special Issue on Lithium Niobate Photonics (2026)
• Organizer of Symposium on Integrated ultrashort pulse generators (CLEO, 2025), Optical technologies for data center (CLEO, 2026)
• Technical Program Committe at IEEE Photonics Conference (2019 - 2021), Optica Advanced Photonics Congress (2023), CLEO Pacific Rim (2024), CLEO (2024 - 2026)
• Regular reviewer for Nature, Science, Nature Photonics, Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Optica, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics etc. (part of the extended list is in this link)