People

Fahad received his BS in Physics and Aero/Astro Engineering from Stanford University. He went on to receive his PhD in Physics from MIT where he developed ultrafast optical and time-resolved photoemission techniques to study light-induced emergent phenomena. His research included Floquet-Bloch states in topological insulators, quasi-particle relaxation and collective modes in cuprate superconductors and charge density wave systems, excitations in strongly correlated iridates and valley depolarization in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. From 2016 to 2019, Fahad was a postdoctoral research fellow at Johns Hopkins University where he used THz range spectroscopies to probe complex interactions in high-temperature and unconventional superconductors, and frustrated quantum magnets. Fahad grew up in Islamabad, Pakistan. When he is not cooling crystals down and shining lasers at them, he is typically watching cricket, playing squash and hoping for a fifth, sixth, seventh ring for the New England Patriots.

Alumni

Postdoctoral fellows and research scientists

Soyeun Kim (Postdoctoral fellow, 2020-2022): Faculty at DGIST, South Korea

Yijing Huang (IQUIST postdoctoral fellow, 2023-2025): Senior System Architect at Apple

Graduate students

Nina Bielinski (PhD, Physics, 2025): Postdoc at ETH Zurich

Yinchuan Lv (PhD, Physics, 2025):  Postdoc at SLAC

Azel Murzabekova (PhD, Physics, 2025): Postdoc at City University of New York/Georgia Tech

Undergraduate students

Andrea Perry (majored in materials science, 2019-2021): Physics graduate student at MIT

Sahaj Patel (majored in physics, 2020-2023):  Physics graduate student at MIT

Yidi Liu (majored in physics, 2021-2023): Physics graduate student at Stanford University

Dominic Petruzzi (majored in physics, 2022-2024): Physics graduate student at Stanford University

Spoorthi Nibhanupudi (majored in physics, 2022-2024): Associate Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman

Jason Cheng (majored in physics, 2023-2024): Graduate student at Johns Hopkins University

Pranav Mahaadev (majored in physics, 2022-2025): Graduate student at Stanford University