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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.

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

Andrew is in his 4th year of Engineering Physics at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. His main research interests include hybrid quantum-classical neural networks on photonic devices, the characterization of qutrits for quantum computing, and CubeSat satellite design. In his free time, Andrew enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing and travelling.

I am my fourth year of Engineering Physics at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´, specializing in computing. I am interested the advancement machine learning and artificial intelligence using the the combination of photonics and neuromorphic computing. My other interests include Crossfit, movies and spending time with my dog.

Co-advised with Prof. Nir Rotenberg

Adam is currently pursuing a Master’s of Applied Science, focusing on optimizing quantum photonic circuits with machine learning. He graduated from ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ with a B. A. Sc. in Engineering Physics with a Computing specialization. Adam’s undergraduate thesis focused on designing and simulating a linear photonic circuit using quantum dot emitters as single photon sources in order to produce photonic cluster states. In his free time Adam enjoys hiking, skiing, climbing, intramural sports, and video games.

Devyn is in his 4th year of a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics with a computing specialization. His research interests include the integration of Neuromorphic Photonics with Linear Optical Quantum Computing for error reduction. In his spare time, he enjoys watching documentaries, reading, and taking naps.

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

Nick is currently in his fifth year of his B.A.Sc in Engineering Physics specializing in computing. Last year, he completed a 16-month internship at the Canadian space company MDA. He is currently the Chief Technical Officer for the Queen's Space Engineering Team, and is interested in researching applications of neural networks in silicon photonics.

Co-advised with Prof. Nir Rotenberg

Adam is currently pursing his Masters at Shastri Lab. He completed his BASc in the Engineering Physics program at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. He is interested in studying how neuromorphic computing can be implemented using silicon photonics to solve differential equations. In his time off he enjoys reading, running, playing sports, and travelling.