Megha is a postdoctoral fellow in the group in a collaborative project with Dr. Dan Dalacu at the National Research Council of Canada to advance deterministic entangled photon sources based on quantum dots in nanowires. Her research aims to push the boundaries of performance for distributed quantum sensing, high-resolution imaging, and long-distance entanglement distribution. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Light-Matter Group at Polytechnique Montreal and the UFIRS Lab at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. Her research focused on ultrafast dynamics in strongly correlated materials, nonlinear optics, and quantum sources based on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides. She earned her Ph.D. from Punjabi University, India, where she explored the structure-property correlations of spinel compounds for solid-state lighting applications. Outside of her academic work, she finds cooking to be a relaxing stress-buster.

Favourite Animal: Elephant 🐘

Madelyn is a fifth-year engineering physics student in the materials option looking into the uses of heterostructured devices to tune the emission of epitaxial quantum dots. She is developing a Python-based computational tool to predict the emission behaviour of the embedded quantum dots. Madelyn is passionate about understanding the interconnected relationships between material structure, properties, and processing and how this can be leveraged to create new technologies. In her spare time, Madelyn enjoys running, ice skating, playing piano, and developing instrumentation for experimental applications.

Favourite Animal: Squirrel 🐿️

Cameron is a fourth-year physics student working on a thesis investigating the non-linearity of QPNNs supervised by Prof. Nir Rotenberg. He is interested in quantum mechanics, nanophotonics and machine learning applications. In his spare time, he likes to rock climb, hike, and play hockey.

Favourite Animal: Dog 🐶

I’m a masters student under Nir Rotenberg and Steve Hughes working on inverse design of photonic crystals.

Favourite Animal: Fish 🐟

Biexciton Entangled Photons in a Chiral Whispering Gallery Mode Photonic Resonator.

Favourite Animal: Whale Shark

Jennifer was the NUCLEUS (CREATE grant) program officer and laboratory manager for the Shastri Lab and the Quantum Nanophotonics Lab. Jennifer has a history in scientific research and research administration at several Canadian academic institutions (Queen’s University, the Royal Military College, The University of Winnipeg, and the University of Manitoba) and associated research institutions (The Manitoba Institute for Materials, and the Arthur B. McDonald Canadian Astroparticle Physics Research Institute). In her spare time, Jennifer can be found enjoying quality time with her family, or at the barn with her horse.

Favourite Animal: Horse 🐴