Congratulations Dom, on your new paper “Reducing Disorder-Induced Backscattering in Photonic Crystal Waveguides through Inverse Design”! In this work, Dom combines fast mode-solving techniques with physics-based scattering models and inverse design to systematically reduce backscattering losses even at fixed group index. This general design framework opens the door to optimized, low-loss photonic crystal waveguides tailored for a wide range of nanophotonic applications. Great work Dom!