I am a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pursuing a doctorate in the department of Materials Science & Engineering. I am working with Professor Steven G. Johnson of the Mathematics department and the Nanostructures & Computation Group on computational research into nanophotonic device design. I also interact closely with the Ab Initio Group of Professor John D. Joannopoulos in the Physics department.

I completed a master's degree in Computation for Design & Optimization from MIT in June 2008. My primary research interests are in computational device design & optimization in nanophotonics and photonic bandgap materials. I am one of the core developers of MEEP -- an open-source FDTD software.