I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Networked Systems, School of Computing and Information, at the University of Pittsburgh. I hold a secondary appointment at the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Previously, I held a Researcher/Scientist III and postdoctoral positions at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, in the Group of Saikat Guha, at the NSF Center for Quantum Networks. Prior to that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, at the Quantum Information Processing Group of Christoph Marquardt, in the Optics and Information Division of Gerd Leuchs.

I obtained my Ph.D. from the Quantum Science and Technologies Group of the Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University under the supervision of Jonathan P. Dowling, and co-supervision of Hwang Lee and Mark M. Wilde.

My research interests lie at the interface of quantum optics and quantum information processing, in developing quantum communication, sensing and computation applications. Currently, the primary focus of my research lies in designing photonic and matter-based repeaters for quantum communication networks. I also work on designing quantum joint-detection receivers for quantum-limited classical optical communications.