Brief Bio

I am a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, working in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  My passion dwells in the confluence of nanotechnology and optical physics. In 2015, I won the J.Evans Attwell/Welch postdoctoral fellowship from the Smalley institute at Rice University, to work on the imaging of designer materials such as metamaterials, plasmonic structures and 2-D materials, using a microscopy technique based on the detection of near-field optical forces. Prior to coming to Rice, I graduated with a PhD and M.S. from Norfolk State University (Virginia, U.S.A) and a B.S. from Purdue University (Indiana, U.S.A), in Materials Science and Engineering. As part of my graduate studies, I worked under the guidance of Dr. Mikhail Noginov, on the study and control of physical phenomena using hyperbolic metamaterials and plasmonic structures.  My research could potentially span a wide array of applications encompassing sensing, photocatalysis, imaging, photovoltaics, controlling chemical reactions and quantum optics. 

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Recent news/media

• Atlas of Science article of our work on curbing Förster energy transfer near metamaterials

• Rice’s article about my research interests and the J.Evans Attwell/Welch fellowship.
  
• Darker than black: Our work on the blackest material ever made, reported by Popular Science, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review and other news outlets