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Pasha is a fourth-year Engineering Physics (B.Eng) student returning from an internship at AMD, where he worked as a Package Design Engineer. He is eager to take his learnings from his internship and apply it to the emerging field of silicon photonics. He will be working with PhD student, Hugh Morison, integrating flip-chip technology with a silicon photon chip. In his free time, Pasha enjoys playing goalie at outdoor hockey rinks and competing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
 

Nayem is a Ph.D. student at Queen's University. He graduated from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology with a B.Sc. in Electrical and   Electronic   Engineering.   His undergraduate thesis examined mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in CMOS-compatible silicon nitride photonic waveguide.   Currently,   He is exploring the neuromorphic photonic computing research field.

Co-advised with Prof. Nir Rotenberg

Tristan is Masters Engineering Physics student. He has broad interests in various novel computing systems, and their unique applications, and is especially excited about quantum computing and quantum machine learning. Tristan hopes to have a positive impact on the world through the research and development of cutting-edge technologies. Prior to beginning his undergraduate degree, he had the opportunity to travel throughout western Canada and India and Nepal. His interests include travel, cooking, music, and exercise.

Co-advised with Prof. Nir Rotenberg of Quantum Nanophotonics Lab.

Connor is a fourth-year Engineering Physics student with an option in Mechanical Engineering beginning research on an accelerated Master’s degree. He is excited about the massive efficiency and speed benefits that silicon photonics can bring and eager to see what questions he can explore in the field. Connor is an avid outdoorsman and ultimate player who is grateful for the opportunity to be with the lab.

Irene received the dual B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Oviedo, Spain, in 2017, and the M.Sc. degree in physics of complex systems from the Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC) and the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, in 2018. She is working toward a Ph.D. degree with the same institute, and currently, she is doing a scientific research stay at Queen's University within the Shastri Lab. Her research interests include reservoir computing, nonlinear dynamics, and signal processing hardware implementations.

Francesco is in his fourth year of Engineering Physics (minor in Computing) at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. He recently completed a 16-month internship with the Center for Advanced Computing in Kingston, Ontario where he led and contributed to projects involving web/server/mobile development, various machine learning applications and DevOps. He is also the Co-founder and lead developer for a FinTech startup focused on event hosting and ticketing. His interests mainly lie in cloud computing, neural networks and distributed systems. In his free time, he enjoys playing sports, researching new technologies and writing technical tutorials.

Emma is in her Fourth year of Engineering Physics at Queen's University, specializing in electrical engineering. She is especially interested in semiconductor physics and its applications in computing and the energy industry. Emma is pursuing her Undergraduate thesis at the Shastri lab, where she is looking into photonic network architecture. She is also the Captain of the Queen's Space Engineering Team, where she leads the design of a prototype mars rover and a 3U cubesat satellite. When she is not solving engineering problems, Emma enjoys hiking and astronomy.

Matteo is a fourth year Engineering Physics student specializing in electrical engineering. He is fascinated by science and technology and would like to purse graduate studies in an area of applied physics or electrical engineering. He has spent the summer of 2019 working at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is very interested in learning, researching and working on quantum computing. Other interests of his include neuromorphic computing, machine intelligence, renewable energy, smart grids and autonomous vehicles. Outside of school Matteo enjoys playing soccer, basketball, skiing and reading.

Murtadha is currently finishing his final year of Engineering Physics (B.A.Sc) with a Computing specialization. He has interest in high bandwidth memory, performance debug, discrete graphics processing units, cluster computing and machine learning. Murtadha recently completed a 16-month internship at AMD in Toronto where he received a spotlight award for his contributions and a full-time offer. On his spare time, he keeps up with basketball, financial markets, new tech and the design of an on-board computer for Queen's Space Engineering Team Satellite.

Viraj Bangari is currently working towards his B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics with computing specialization at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, ON, Canada. His current research interests are in the fields of photonics, distributed and parallel computing, programming languages/compilers, operating systems and novel computing systems. He also has experience working for the Azure Compute team at Microsoft and going to to work for the distributed software operations team at Apple.