Experience

Voyant Photonics, New York, NY, USA (May 2022 - present)

Senior Photonic Systems Engineer

Nokia, New York, NY, USA (April 2020 - April 2022)

Member of Technical Staff (NI Optical Subsystems)

Elenion Technologies, New York, NY, USA (August 2019 - April 2020)

Senior Photonics Test Engineer

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA (August 2015 - August 2019)

Staff Associate

Research on mode-locking of optical frequency combs generated in CMOS-compatible silicon nitride microresonators using on-chip integrated heaters to achieve low-noise operation, study novel dynamics of comb formation and soliton interaction, and applications in spectroscopy and ranging.

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (August 2013 - August 2015)

Graduate Research Assistant

Optical frequency comb generation on silicon nitride based microresonator devices using tunable lasers and thermo-electric cooling.

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (October 2012 - May 2013)

Masters Thesis

"Temporal characterisation of optical frequency combs"

Designed and built a broadband two-photon absorption based interferometric autocorrelator to characterize femtosecond optical pulses. The autocorrelation was used to characterise femtosecond pulsed pump lasers for supercontinuum generation in silicon nitride waveguides.

Tornado Spectral Systems, Ithaca, NY, USA (May 2012 - August 2012)

Research Intern

Designed an automated testing setup to measure output optical spectrum for a 1024-channel nanophotonic chip.

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India (July 2010 - April 2011)

Bachelor Thesis

Simulation of the electro-mechanical properties of simple MEMS structures such as cantilevers and actuators and fluid flow in microchannel fluidic mixers using Intellisuite.

Technische Universitiet Delft, Delft, Netherlands (May 2010 - July 2010)

Research Intern

Designed a setup to measure material dispersion by cross-correlation of femtosecond pulses using an imbalanced interferometer.

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (May 2009 - July 2009)

Research Intern

Absorption spectroscopy of materials for calibration of a Terahertz time-domain Spectroscopy setup.

Experience

Interests

Quizzing

I have been a avid Quizzer for nearly all my life. Starting from fierce contests in Bengaluru as a fourth grader through to the less fierce and significantly more relaxed pub quizzes in Ithaca and New York City as a graduate student.

Photography

Having acquired a quality camera after grad school, I have been dabbling in photography since. I post some of my better work on 500px and Instagram .

Swimming and Water Polo

I have been a swimmer since the age of 7. I used to swim competitively in high school. After a break of three years I returned to competition at the Inter IIT Aquatic Meets during undergrad also picking up the sport of Water Polo.

Football

I've been following football (soccer to some of you) 'properly' since I was about eleven. I support Manchester United with something bordering on fanaticism. Although I am not the most skilled of players of the game on an actual pitch, nothing beats the feeling of playing on a muddy field with your friends on a rainy day during the monsoon back home in India.

Interests