Curriculum Vitae

Education

2019 - Ph.D., Physical Chemistry

• • University of Toronto (2016 – 2019), Toronto, ON, Canada 

  • Princeton University (2014 – 2016), Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.

  • Advisors: G. D. Scholes (Princeton), E. H. Sargent (UofT), S. O. Kelley (UofT)

  • Awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal by Office of the Governor General, for achieving the highest academic standing at the graduate level across the Faculty of Arts & Science 

2014 - B.Sc., Chemistry

• Concordia University (2011 – 2014), Montréal , QC, Canada

• Advisor: X. Ottenwaelder

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Centre for Extreme Photonics (2022 - pres.)

National Research Council of Canada & University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

• Principal investigators: Jeff Lundeen (uOttawa) & Benjamin Sussman (NRC)

• Created a deep symmetric ResNet autoencoder to perform holography image reconstruction from noisy, randomly phase-modulated, few-shot (~1000 photons) frames. Outperforms state-of-the-art Singular Value Decomposition algorithms.

• Ultrafast switching of single-photon polarization at telecom wavelengths; probing materials with quantum light using two-photon interference.

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020 - 2022)

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, MA, United States

• Principal investigator: Moungi Bawendi

• Designed deep ensemble neural networks and neural ordinary differential equation models to perform signal reconstruction and time-series forecasting in single molecule spectroscopy experiments.

• Discovered the narrowest-ever reported emission linewidths (~5 μeV) of colloidal quantum dots using interferometric photon correlation spectroscopy with InP/ZnSe/ZnS and CsPbBr3 materials.

Postdoctoral Researcher – University of Toronto (2019 - 2020)

The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Toronto, ON, Canada

• Principal investigator: Edward Sargent

• Discovered ultrafast (~100 fs) exciton transfer between 2D perovskite quantum wells using nonlinear transient absorption spectroscopies, and subpicosecond electron transfer to organic ligands

• Synthesized new organic cation ligands to increase efficiency (20%+ power conversion efficiency) and stability of perovskite photovoltaic devices

CIFAR Bioinspired Solar Energy Program Member (2016 - 2019)

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Toronto, ON, Canada

• Lead author on collective works from Bioinspired Solar Energy team (Nat. Rev. Mater. 2020)

• Assisted program directors to establish 5-year research plans for program renewal

Awards and Distinctions

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Presentation Prize – Calgary, AB (2022)

Governor General’s Gold Medal – University of Toronto (2020)

• One of three awards given each year to the top graduating doctoral students 

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2020)

NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D) – University of Toronto (2018)

• Ranked 4th of 155 applicants

FRQNT Bourse de doctorat en recherche – University of Toronto (2016, declined)

Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC) Travel Grant – University of Glasgow, Princeton University (2015)

FRQNT Bourse de maîtrise en recherche – Princeton University, University of Toronto (2014)

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (2)  – Concordia University (2013, 2014)

The Chemistry Medal – Concordia University (2014)

Canadian Society for Chemistry Silver Medal – Concordia University (2013)

Dean’s Scholar Award & University Award of Excellence – Concordia University (2011 - 2013)

Conference presentations

1. CLEO - Charlotte, NC, United States (2024) 

“Colloidal Quantum Dots as Sources of Single Photons” (invited)

2. Photonics North 2023 – Montréal, QC, Canada (2023)

“Deep learning photon correlations for accelerated single quantum emitter spectroscopy”

3. Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2023) – Vancouver, BC, Canada (2023)

“Highly Stable and Pure Single-Photon Emission with 250 ps Optical Coherence Times in InP/ZnSe/ZnS Colloidal Quantum Dots”

4. Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition – Calgary, AB, Canada (2022)

 “An Adversarial Autoencoder Ensemble for Probabilistic Reconstructions of Few-Shot Photon Correlation Functions” → awarded Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) Presentation Prize for best talk in symposium

 “Photon Correlation Fourier Spectroscopy and emission lineshapes of highly luminescent InP/ZnSe/ZnS single quantum dots” 

5. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting – Virtual conference (2022)

“Dimensional Mixing and Formation Mechanisms of 2D/3D Perovskite Interfaces”

6. nanoGe - Light Emission in Organic and Hybrid Materials (invited speaker) – Virtual conference (2019)

“Ultrafast photophysics of metal halide perovskite multiple quantum wells: device implications and reconciling band alignment”

7. SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering (invited speaker) – San Diego, California, United States (2019)

“Ultrafast photophysics of metal halide perovskite multiple quantum wells: device implications and reconciling band alignment”

8. European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) – Nice, France (2019)

“Spectrally Resolved Ultrafast Exciton Transfer in Mixed Perovskite Quantum Wells”

“Lattice Anchoring Stabilizes Solution-Processed Semiconductors”

9. Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting – Boston, MA, United States (2017)

“Carrier Dynamics and Diffusion Lengths in Mixed-Quantum-Dot Solar Cells”

10. 100th Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) Conference (poster) – Toronto, ON, Canada (2014)

“Ultrafast Interwell Energy Transfer in Mixed Perovskite Quantum Wells”

11. CIFAR Bioinspired Solar Energy Meetings (4) – Princeton, NJ, United States; Toronto, ON, Canada; Montréal, QC, Canada (2019)