Honors and Awards

• COE Edgerton Rising Faculty Award, 2026
• U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, 2025
• NSF EPSCoR Research Fellows Program Award, 2025
• Optica Senior Member, Class of 2025
• Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST Award, 2022
• APS Career Mentoring Fellow, Class of 2022

Research Interest

• Quantum Materials, Two-Dimensional Materials, Wide-Bandgap Materials
• Integrated Photonics & Phononics
• Nano-/Microelectromechanical Systems (NEMS/MEMS)
• Photophysics and Optical Spectroscopy

Courses Developed

• ECEN 486/886: Fundamentals of Photonics
• ECEN 491/891: Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation
• ECEN 498: Quantum Programming for STEM