Curriculum Vitae
| Education | University of Washington, Seattle | 2020 - present |
| PhD candidate, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Kai-Mei Fu |
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| University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa | 2016 - 2020 | |
| BS Electrical Engineering, electro-physics focus; Minor in Physics GPA: 3.98/4.00 |
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| Experience | Research assistant | 2020 - Present |
| University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Graduate reasearch assistant in the Quantum Defect Lab under Prof. Kai-Mei Fu. |
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| Teaching assistant | 2018 - 2020 | |
| University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Teaching assistant for weekly lab sections of EE 160 (Programming for Engineers) and EE 213 (Circuit Analysis II). |
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| Research assistant | 2019 | |
| City College of New York, New York City, New York
Summer research assistant in the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP) under Prof. Vinod Menon. |
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| Tutor | 2016 - 2020 | |
| University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
Math, science, and engineering tutor for the UH Mānoa Learning Assistance Center. |
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| Columbia University MRSEC REU student | 2018 | |
| Columbia University, New York City, New York
One of around 20 students selected to participate in Columbia University MRSEC Research Experience for Undergraduates. |
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| Awards | NSF Graduate Research Fellowship [article] | 2020 - 2025 |
| Fall 2020 Outstanding Graduating Senior (UH Mānoa, Dept. of EE) [article] | 2020 | |
| Association of Old Crows Spectrum Warrior Scholarship | 2018 & 2019 | |
| University of Hawaiʻi Regents Scholar | 2016 - 2020 | |
| Miscellaneous | Memberships | |
| IEEE Student Member (2019) | ||
| Certifications | ||
| Certificate of Quantum Excellence (IBM Qiskit Global Summer School 2020) |
Publications
Please see Google Scholar for the most up-to-date list.
Journal articles
* denotes equal contribution.
- K. Elassy, M Rahman, N. S. Yama, W. A. Shiroma, and A. T. Ohta, “Complex permittivity of NaOH solutions used in liquid-metal circuits,” IEEE Access 7(1), pp. 150150-150156 (2019)
- S. Guddala, M. Khatoniar, N. S. Yama, W. Liu, G. S. Agarwal, and V. M. Menon, “Optical analog of valley Hall effect of 2D excitons in hyperbolic metamaterial,” Optica 8(1), 50-55 (2021)
- A. D. Logan, S. Shree, S. Chakravarthi, N. Yama, C. Pederson, K. Hestroffer, F. Hatami, and K.-M. C. Fu, "Triply-resonant sum frequency conversion with gallium phosphide ring resonators," Opt. Express 31, 1516-1531 (2023)
- S. Chakravarthi*, N. S. Yama*, A. Abulnaga, D. Huang, C. Pederson, K. Hestroffer, F. Hatami, N. P. de Leon, K.-M. C Fu "Hybrid integration of GaP photonic crystal cavities with silicon-vacancy centers in diamond by stamp transfer" Nano Lett. 23, 3708 (2023)
- M. Khatoniar, N. Yama, A. Ghazaryan, S. Guddala, P. Ghaemi, K. Majumdar, and V. Menon, "Optical Manipulation of Layer-Valley Coherence via Strong Exciton-Photon Coupling in Microcavities," Adv. Optical Mater. 11, 2202631 (2023)
- Y. Han, C. Pederson, B. E. Matthews, N. S. Yama, M. F. Parsons, K.-M. C. Fu, "Creation of color centers in diamond by recoil implantation through dielectric films," Appl. Phys. Lett. 124(4), 044007 (2024)
- N. S. Yama*, I.-T. Chen*, S. Chakravarthi, B. Li, C. Pederson, B. E. Matthews, S. R. Spurgeon, D. E. Perea, M. G. Wirth, P. V. Sushko, M. Li, K.-M. C. Fu, "Silicon-Lattice-Matched Boron-Doped Gallium Phosphide: A Scalable Acousto-Optic Platform," Adv. Mater. 36, 2305434 (2024)
- A. M. Boyce, H. Li, N. C. Wilson, D. Acil, A. Shams-Ansari, S. Chakravarthi, C. Pederson, Q. Shen, N. Yama, K.-M. C. Fu, M. Loncar, and M. H. Mikkelsen "Plasmonic Diamond Membranes for Ultrafast Silicon Vacancy Emission," Nano Lett. 24(12), 3575-3580 (2024)
- A. D. Logan*, N. S. Yama*, and K.-M. C. Fu, "Selective active resonance tuning for multi-mode nonlinear photonic cavities," Opt. Express 32, 13396-13407 (2024)
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