TEACHING & SERVICE
Photo: Panel Moderator for the 2019 MIT Lam Research Technical Symposium. Panelists: Tim Archer (President and CEO, Lam Research), Tung-Yi Chan (President, Winbond Electronics Corp), Anantha Chandrakasan (Dean of SoE, MIT), Shaojun Wei (Director of IME and Dean of DMN, Tsinghua University), and Ron Sampson (SVP and Head of US Manufacturing, GLOBALFOUNDRIES)
Photo: 2017 MIT MARC Core Committee
Photo: 2018 MIT MARC Attendees
Photo: 2014 HKN Group Event
Photo: 2014 HKN members painting the SRC
Photo: 2015 HKN Group Event
Service and Outreach
2017 - Present: Reviewer for Nature, Optica, and IEEE Journals
2021: Program Co-Chair of the MIT EECS Rising Stars Workshop [Link]
2025: Program Committee Member of the OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Conference [Link]
2024: Program Committee Member of the OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Conference [Link]
2023: Program Committee Member of the OSA Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Conference [Link]
2024: Program Committee Member of the OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics (IPR) Conference [Link]
2023: Program Committee Member of the OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics (IPR) Conference [Link]
2022: Program Committee Member of the OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics (IPR) Conference [Link]
2021: Program Committee Member of the OSA Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics (IPR) Conference [Link]
2024: Area Co-Chair of the MIT EECS Graduate Admissions Committee
2023: Area Co-Chair of the MIT EECS Graduate Admissions Committee
2022: Committee Member of the MIT EECS Graduate Admissions Committee
2021: Committee Member of the MIT EECS Graduate Admissions Committee
2020 - Present: Co-Organizer of the MIT Optics and Quantum Electronics (OQE) Seminar Series [Link]
2022 - Present: Organizer of the MIT RLE Hermann Haus Lecture
2021: Chair of the MIT EE Curriculum Electromagnetics and Photonics Track
2023: Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Panel
2018: Core Committee Member of the MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) [Link]
2017: Core Committee Member of the MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) [Link]
2018: Session Chair for the MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) [Link]
2017: Session Chair for the MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) [Link]
2023: Session Chair for the IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
2021: Session Chair for the OSA Integrated Photonics Research (IPR) Conference
2020: Session Chair for the OSA Frontiers in Optics (FiO) Conference [Link]
2014 - 2015: President of the CU Boulder Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Electrical Engineering Honor Society
2016 - 2017: Chair of the MIT EECS Graduate Students Association (GSA)
2020: Keynote Moderator for the MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) [Link]
2019: Panel Moderator for the MIT Lam Research Technical Symposium [Link]
2020: Panelist and Mentor for the UC Berkeley EECS Rising Stars Workshop [Link]
2023: Panelist for the MIT GW6 Faculty Breakfast
2021: Panelist for the MIT GW6 Research Summit
2022: Panelist for the MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) [Link]
2021: Panelist for the MIT Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) [Link]
2021: Panelist for the MIT Voltage Student Group Fall Faculty Dinner [Link]
2021: Panelist for the MIT Voltage Student Group Spring Faculty Dinner [Link]
2023: Panelist for the MIT EECS Thriving Stars Career Panel [Link]
2023: Panelist for the MIT EECS Undergraduate Student Faculty Breakfast
2022: Panelist for the MIT EECS Undergraduate Women Faculty Breakfast
2023: Panelist for the MIT EECS Academic Job Search Seminar (6.S899)
2021: Panelist for the MIT EECS Academic Job Search Seminar (6.S899)
2020: Panelist for the MIT EECS Academic Job Search Seminar (6.S899)
2023: Panelist for the MIT EECS Faculty Search Seminar
2022: Panelist for the MIT EECS Faculty Search Seminar
2021: Panelist for the MIT EECS Faculty Search Seminar
2020: Panelist for the MIT EECS Faculty Search Seminar [Link]
2021: Panelist for the MIT EECS New Student Seminar
2021: Panelist for the MIT EECS Women's Seminar
2018: Panelist for the MIT EECS Women's Seminar
2023: Panelist for the MIT Sprouting Program
2024: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT IEEE/ACM Student Group [Link]
2024: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute [Link]
2023: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT Monterrey Tech Nanotechnology Program (MTech)
2022: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) [Link]
2022: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT EECS Graduate Student Orientation
2022: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT EECS Academic Job Search Seminar (6.S899)
2022: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT EECS Undergraduate Electromagnetics Class (6.013)
2022: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT EECS Graduate Electromagnetics Class (6.630)
2022: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT EECS Undergraduate Advanced Research Class (6.UAR)
2022: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT CodeIt Program [Link]
2021: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT CodeIt Program [Link]
2021: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT EECS Family Week Event
2021: Volunteer Presenter for the MIT EECS Admitted Student Visit Days
2021: Volunteer Judge for the MIT iQuHACK (Interdisciplinary Quantum Hackathon) [Link]
2020: Volunteer Judge for the MIT GW6 Research Summit
2024: Volunteer for the MIT iQuHACK (Interdisciplinary Quantum Hackathon) [Link]
2023: Volunteer for the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP)
2021: Volunteer for the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP)
2017: Volunteer for the MIT EECS Faculty Search Student Committee
2019: Volunteer for the MIT Women's Technology Program (WTP) [Link]
2019: Volunteer for the MIT.nano Cambridge Science Festival
2018: Volunteer for the MIT Lincoln Labs Girls Who Build (GWB) Program
2017 - 2018: Volunteer for the MIT SWE Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program [Link]
2011: Engineer for the Imagine Boulder Smart Home
Honors and Professional Society Affiliations
2011 - 2015: Member of the CU Boulder Engineering Honors Program
2014 - Present: Member of the Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) Electrical Engineering Honor Society
2014 - Present: Member of the Tau Beta Pi (TBP) Engineering Honor Society
2013 - Present: Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2014 - Present: Member of the Optical Society (OSA)
2015 - Present: Member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE)
2011 - Present: Member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
2013 - Present: Member of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE)
2015 - 2020: Member of the MIT EECS Graduate Students Association (GSA)
2015 - 2020: Member of the MIT Graduate Women in Course 6
2014 - 2015: Member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Instructor for IPT Active Devices Online Course
Developer and Instructor [Course Website]
(March 2021 - September 2021)
Developed an online course (Integrated Photonics Test: Active Devices) in collaboration with several faculty from other institutions, which has already resulted in ~105 registered participants. Developed and recorded lectures along with associated hands-on lab demos (performed and recorded in research lab), and co-authored an accompanying educational conference paper on this new instructional format for online courses.
Instructor for AIM Photonics Summer Academy
Instructor [Program Website]
(July 2019 & July 2022)
Instructor for the AIM Photonics Academy, a week-long intensive program held at MIT introducing participants from academia and industry to integrated photonics through short courses and a design project. Organized and facilitated the LiDAR design-project breakout sessions where students collaborated on and presented a conceptual design for an application-specific integrated photonic circuit.
Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (MIT)
Program Participant - Instructor: Dr. Dipa Shah [Program Website]
(February 2019 - May 2019)
Completed MIT's Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP). Through assigned readings, workshop discussions, assignment-based practice, and lecture- and active-learning-based microteaching sessions, developed critical teaching skills, including designing a course, identifying intended learning outcomes, constructing a syllabus, planning and facilitating class sessions, interactive teaching, facilitating active learning, constructing effective assignments, and inclusive teaching.
T.A. for Introduction to Digital and Analog Electronics (CU Boulder)
Teaching Assistant - Instructor: Professor Peter Mathys
(January 2013 - May 2013)
Ran two weekly lab sections where students designed and built digital and analog circuitry with a culminating final project of the design and implementation of a digital clock. Graded homework and held review sessions. Accepted into and funded by the Earn-Learn Apprenticeship program.
Chair of EECS Rising Stars Workshop (MIT)
General Co-Chair [Workshop Website]
(March 2021 – October 2021)
Served as the general co-chair of the EECS Rising Stars workshop hosted at MIT that brought together ~80 graduate students and postdocs with female and other historically underrepresented gender identities who are interested in pursuing academic careers in EECS. Reviewed over 200 applications, invited 34 faculty panelists and speakers, and curated and executed a program consisting of 13 events over 2 full days.
President of HKN Electrical Engineering Honor Society (CU Boulder)
President of the CU Boulder Chapter
(May 2014 - May 2015)
Elected president of Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), the electrical engineering honor society. Lead organization of events and activities including renovating the department's Student Resource Center and undergraduate circuits lab, building a binary clock and autonomous vehicle, volunteering with community organizations, and holding soldering seminars for underclassmen. Chapter recognized with the 2014-2015 IEEE-HKN Outstanding Chapter Award [Link].
Chair of EECS Graduate Students Association (MIT)
Visit Days Chair and Coffee Hour Chair [Group Website]
(January 2016 - December 2017)
Held Visit Days & Orientation Chair and Coffee Hour Chair positions in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Students Association. Organized weekly coffee socials regularly attended by ~70 graduate students, the department's incoming student visit days, and the department's new student orientations.
Core Committee Member and Session Chair of MIT MARC (MIT)
Core Committee Member and Session Chair [Conference Website]
(September 2016 - February 2018)
Held the Photonics & Optoelectronics Session Chair position and member of the core organizing committee for the 2017 and 2018 MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories' (MTL) Microsystems Annual Research Conference (MARC) held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Organized session review committees, solicited abstract submissions, organized feature talks, chaired conference sessions, and assisted day-of operations.
