I am currently a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory in the Center for Molecular Engineering and Materials Science Division, as well as a CASE Affiliated Scientist at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. I received my bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Music Theory from the University of Michigan in 2006. I received my Ph.D. (2013) in electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara where I worked in the group of David Awschalom researching spin defects in wide-bandgap materials, namely the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center diamond. I then moved to the University of Chicago where I was a postdoctoral scholar in the Awschalom group from 2013-2015. In 2016, I started as an assistant staff scientist at Argonne National Lab.
My current research focuses on engineering spin systems in diamond, silicon carbide, and other wide bandgap semiconductors as a versatile quantum platform. I work on a wide range of quantum applications including the fundamental development of quantum materials and hybrid quantum systems, scalable quantum technology, and quantum communication implementations based on semiconducting qubit systems.