I am a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pursuing a masters in Computation for Design & Optimization and a doctorate in the department of Materials Science & Engineering. I am working with Professor Steven G. Johnson of the Mathematics deparment and the Nanostructures & Computation Group on developing numerical tools for nanophotonic device optimization. I also interact closely with the Ab Initio Group of Professor John D. Joannopoulos in the Condensed Matter Theory Group of the Physics department.

I completed my bachelor's degree in the Engineering Science program (nanoengineering option) at the University of Toronto in June 2004. My primary research interests are in computational electromagnetism, robust optimization, photonic bandgap materials and nanophotonics. I am one of the core developers of MEEP -- an open-source FDTD software.