Swetapadma  Sahoo

Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering

 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Research Interests: Quantum Optics, Nanophotonics, Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Metrology

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Hello! I am Sweta, a PhD. student advised by Prof. Simeon Bogdanov. I work on: (1) engineering light-matter interactions with quantum defects in solid-state emitters, (2) scaling up the fabrication and characterization of quantum emitters.

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2020- Ongoing

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA

BS+MS in Electrical Engineering, 2013-18

IIT Bombay, India


Recent News

10 May, 2024: I presented our paper on "FiND: Few-shot three-dimensional image-free confocal focusing on point-like emitters" at CLEO 2024  in Charlotte, North Carolina.

2 April, 2024: I am honored to receive Nick and Katherine Holonyak, Jr. Graduate Student Award, and the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship for a second time.

29 November, 2023: I passed my PhD. preliminary examination and am now a PhD. candidate!

11 November, 2023: Our paper on "FiND: Few-shot three-dimensional image-free confocal focusing on point-like emitters" is out on arXiv.

6 June, 2023: I am honored to receive SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship, 2023.

3 April, 2023: I am honored to receive the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship from the ECE department, UIUC.

16 December, 2022: Our review paper "Hybrid quantum nanophotonic devices with color centers in nanodiamonds" is now published in Optical Materials Express.

25 July, 2022: Our review paper on hybrid quantum nanophotonic devices with color centers in nanodiamonds is out on arXiv.

3 May, 2022: I am honored to be selected as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow (MF3), in the CoE program designed to facilitate the training for the next generation of engineering professors.

22 December, 2021: I am honored to receive the J.A. Woollam Company Scholarship from the SVC Foundation. 

3 December, 2021: I passed my PhD. qualifying examination!

16 June, 2021: Our paper on rapid absolute sizing of dielectric nanoparticles by confocal microscopy has been published in Applied Physics Letters

25 August, 2020: I started my PhD. in ECE at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign (UIUC).

Professional Activities and Outreach

President, SPIE student chapter, UIUC, 2023-24

Vice-President, Optica student chapter, UIUC, 2022-23

Product Specialist in Lithium-ion batteries, Murata Electronics, Japan, 2018-20

Get in touch at sahoo5@illinois.edu