LECTURES

Invited Academic Talks

  • [upcoming] OSA Frontiers in Optics, Silicon Carbide Color Center Quantum Nanophotonics, 9/2020.
  • [upcoming] Qiskit Global Summer School, Early Career Panel speaker, 7/2020.
  • Berkeley Nanoscale Science and Engineering Seminar, CA, Color Centers and Quantum Nanophotonics,11/2019.
  • UC Davis, Physics Colloquium, CA, Quantum Information Processing Based on Quantum Nanophotonics,10/2019.
  • Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science (JAGFoS) Symposium, Japan, Quantum Information Processing Based on Color Centers (video), 9/2019.
  • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Nanophotonics, IWANN2019, Spain, Nanophotonic Architecture for Machine Learning Hardware, 6/2019.
  • Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia, Scientific Computing Lab Seminar, Quantum photonics incorporating color centers in silicon carbide and diamond, 5/2019.
  • Izmir Institute of Technology seminar, Turkey, Quantum photonics incorporating color centers in silicon carbide and diamond, 5/2019.
  • University of Vienna seminar, Austria, Quantum photonics incorporating color centers in silicon carbide and diamond, 5/2019.
  • UC Davis ECE Industrial Affiliates Symposium, CA, Quantum Nanophotonics for Advanced Information Processing, 4/2019.
  • Stanford University Photonics Retreat, CA, Color Centers and Quantum Nanophotonic Technologies, 4/2019.
  • UC Davis Biophotonics Meeting, CA, Nanophotonics with color centers in silicon carbide and diamond, 4/2019.
  • Hasselt Diamond Workshop, Belgium, Quantum nanophotonics integrating diamond color centers, 3/2019.
  • Trinity College Dublin, Physics Department Seminar, Ireland, Quantum photonics incorporating color centers in silicon carbide and diamond, 11/2018.
  • Royal Society Meeting on SiC quantum spintronics: towards quantum devices in a technological material, UK, Silicon Carbide Color Center Photonics, 11/2018.
  • UC Davis, Physics Condensed Matter Seminar, CA, Quantum photonics incorporating color centers in silicon carbide and diamond, 10/2018.
  • UC Davis, ECE graduate seminar series The 4th Industrial Revolution: Fusion of Technologies, CA, Quantum and Nano-Photonics in the 4th Industrial Revolution, 9/2018.
  • San Jose State University, Physics and Astronomy Seminar, CA, Nanophotonics for Modern-Day Information Processing, 9/2018.
  • AT&T Foundry, Palo Alto, CA, Future of Quantum Technologies Symposium, Early Career Panel speaker, 8/2018.
  • Gordon Research Seminar on Defects in Semiconductors, NH, invited introductory presentation Defects for Quantum Technologies, 8/2018.
  • The University of Southern California, CA, Viterbi School Seminar, Scalable Nanophotonics for Quantum and Classical Information Processing, 4/2018.
  • Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, NY, Photonics Seminar, Scalable Nanophotonics for Quantum and Classical Information Processing, 3/2018.
  • Psi Quantum Seminar, CA, Quantum and Integrated Nanophotonics, 3/2018.
  • UC Davis, ECE seminar, CA, Scalable Nanophotonics for Classical and Quantum Information Processing, 2/2018.
  • The University of Texas at Austin, TX, Color Center Quantum Nanophotonics, 2/2018.
  • The University of Rochester, NY, Optics Colloquium, Color Center Quantum Nanophotonics, 1/2018.
  • 5th International Workshop on Engineering of Quantum Emitter Properties, Canada, Quantum Nanophotonics, 12/2017.
  • Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada, Quantum Innovators Workshop, Color Center Quantum Nanophotonics, 10/2017.
  • AT&T Foundry, Palo Alto, CA, INQNET Symposium, Color Center Quantum Nanophotonics, 9/2017.
  • XLAB/Max-Planck Institute Goettingen, Germany, XLAB Alumni Symposium, Quantum Optics with Color Centers in Diamond and Silicon Carbide, 8/2017.
  • The University of Melbourne, Australia, School of Physics seminar, Quantum Photonics Incorporating Silicon Carbide and Diamond Color Centers, 2/2017.
  • Photonics West, CA, Quantum Nanophotonics, invited conference talk, 2/2017.
  • Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia, Scientific Computing Lab Seminar, Silicon Carbide and Color Center Quantum Photonics, 12/2016.
  • Rigetti Computing Seminar, CA, Information Processing Based on Quantum Photonics, 12/2016.
  • UC Berkeley, CA, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Seminar, Silicon Carbide and Color Center Quantum Photonics, 9/2016.
  • Gordon Research Seminar on Defects in Semiconductors, NH, invited conference talk, Silicon Carbide and Color Center Photonics, 8/2016.
  • Harvard University, MA, seminar at the Physics Department, Silicon Carbide and Color Center Photonics, 7/2016.
  • Hewlett Packard Laboratories, CA, seminar at LSIP Group, GaAs, SiC and Color Center Photonics, 3/2016.
  • Columbia University, NY, seminar at Columbia Nano Initiative, Silicon Carbide and Color Center Photonics, 2/2016.
  • The University of Washington, WA, seminar at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Silicon Carbide and Color Center Photonics, 2/2016.
  • CLEO Europe, Germany, invited conference talk, Quantum Nanophotonics, 6/2015.
  • The First Symposium on Silicon Carbide Spintronics, Sweden, invited conference talk, Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics in Silicon Carbide, 6/2015.
  • Stanford University, CA, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Student Seminar, Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics in Silicon Carbide, 5/2015.
  • Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia, Scientific Computing Lab Seminar, Silicon Carbide Nanophotonics, 12/2013.
  • Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia, Scientific Computing Lab Seminar, Photonic Crystals and Cavity QED, 8/2012.

[last updated Jan 2019]

Stanford University Courses

  • Teaching Assistant, EE340: Optical Micro- and Nano- Cavities for Professor Jelena Vuckovic, 39 graduate students, Spring 2015.
    • Sample student evaluation: Great at explaining things, also very responsive to email which is a huge help.
  • Substitute Lecturer and Teaching Assistant for Professor David Miller, EE65: Modern Physics for Engineers, 28 undergraduate students, Spring 2016.
    • Sample student evaluation: Marina gave several outstanding lectures in Prof. Miller's absence and also provided extremely useful office hours where she would lead student's to the brink of discovery and let them make the final connections themselves in a fashion that reinforced learning and ensured that we truly understood the problem-solving techniques. She was most useful at breaking down complex formulas and helping me understand why each part was how it was.

Educational Programs for Graduate Students and Postdocs

  • Panelist at the Recent Alumni Perspectives Panel at the Berkeley-Stanford Women in EE/CS Meetup, 4/2019.
  • Workshop leader at the Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia, Applying for a PhD or postdoc in USA, 3/2019.
  • Speaker at the DataBeers Brussels, How to Process Data with Light, 3/2019.
  • Panelist at the Stanford Career Education panel Successful Seekers for Faculty Positions: Engineering alongside Alireza Marandi, Aaron Towne and Justin Tran, organized by Chris Golde, 5/2018.
  • Initiated and moderated Starting Your Own Lab Panel with Stanford University professors Jennifer Dionne, Monika Schleier-Smith, Amir Safavi-Naeini and Gordon Wetzstein. This panel was organized for Stanford Optical Society graduate students and postdocs, 2/2017.
  • Organized annual Stanford University Photonics Retreat within Stanford Optical Society for 80 students, postdocs, professors and industry representatives:
    • April 8-10, 2016, Marshall, CA - Keynote speaker: Nobel Laureate in Physics Steven Chu.
    • April 10-12, 2015, Asilomar, CA - Keynote speaker: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry W. E. Moerner.
    • April 4-6, 2014, Marshall, CA - Keynote speaker: Nobel Laureate in Physics Carl Wieman.
    • April 12-14, 2013, Santa Rosa, CA - Keynote speaker: Professor Arthur Bienenstock.
  • Designed and organized the Optical Career Development Series as a co-president of Stanford Optical Society serving students and postdocs from eight science and engineering departments:
    • Presenting Your Research at Optics Conferences led by Professor Robert Byer, 4/2015.
    • Scientific Visualization with Blender led by graduate student Yousif Kelaita, 2/2015.
    • Workshop on Scientific Computing with Python led by graduate students Nicholas Tezak and Ryan Hammerly, 2/2015.
    • Navigating Optics Coursework at Stanford with graduate students Marina Radulaski, Matthew Lew, Peter McMahon, Ken Leedle and Saara Khan, attended by 30 first-year graduate students, 11/2014.
    • Getting a Job in Optics panel with Dr. Donnell Walton, Research Director at Corning Inc., Dr. Patrick B. Chu, R&D Science and Technology Manager at Sandia National Laboratories and Dr. Charles Santori, Research Associate at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, application for an industry job, 9/2014.

Large Audience Science Outreach

  • Producer, host and writer for the Goggles Optional science podcast annually downloaded over 20,000 times from over 90 countries, 2017-2018.
  • Organized volunteers, designed educational programs and taught lectures to popularize physics in San Francisco Bay Area as a co-chair of Stanford Optical Society Outreach Committee, reached 10,000 K-12 students, 2012-2014.
  • Coordinated 20 volunteers and designed an interactive physics exhibit for Belgrade Science Festival, Serbia reaching 32,000 visitors, 2008-2009.