Positions, Scientific Appointments, and Honors
2024–
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022–2025
Member
— DARPA Microsystems Exploratory Council (MEC)
2020–
Deputy Director
— NSF ERC Center for Quantum Networks
2020–
Co-lead
— MIT-MITRE-Sandia National Laboratory Quantum Moonshot Program
2019–
Member
— MIT Lincoln Laboratory Campus Interaction Committee
2018–2024
Associate Professor (tenured)
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS
2018–
Senior Technical Staff (part-time)
— Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Department of Energy)
2017–
Scientific Advisor
— Lightmatter, Dust Identity, QuEra Computing, Quantum Network Technologies (QNT)
2016–2018
Associate Professor (untenured)
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS
2013–2016
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Microsystems Technology Laboratory
2010–2013
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics
— Columbia University
2008–2010
Postdoctoral Fellow
— Harvard University
Physics
Honors
2023
Fellow of the IEEE
2022
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
2023
Best Paper Award, OECC/PSC Conference 2022
2023
R&D 100 Award winner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory Microsystems Prototyping Foundry)
2021–2024
Web of Science / Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (Physics 2022–2024; Cross-Field 2021)
2021
Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America)
2020
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship
2018
Bose Research Fellow
2017
Adolph Lomb Medal (OSA / Optica top award for a young researcher in optics)
2017
ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award
2016
MIT Lincoln Laboratory R&D 100 Award
2015
Lincoln Laboratory Best Paper Award
2012
IEEE-HKN Outstanding Young Professional Award
2012
IBM Faculty Award
2012
DARPA Young Faculty Award
2011
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
2011
Sloan Research Fellowship in Physics
2010
Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award
2004
NSF Graduate Fellowship
2003
NDSEG Fellow
2002
U.S. Fulbright Fellow
2002
D.S. Kothari Thesis Prize in Physics, Caltech