Awards and Honors

• Scialog Fellow in Quantum Matter and Information, Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2025).
• Thomas B. Day Outstanding Faculty Award for Excellence in Physics, San Diego State University, Physics (2025).
• Program Committee, 2D Photonic Materials and Devices IX, SPIE Photonics West (2025).
• Most Influential University Professor, San Diego State University, Department of Physics (2024).
• NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program Grant (2022).
• ​AFOSR Optoelectronics and Photonics Grant (2022). 
• ​​AEOP Faculty Mentor - Research and Engineering Apprenticeship Program in Summer 2021 and 2022.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue on '2D Materials and Heterostructures', Emergent Materials (2021).
• ​​DST Young Scientist Travel Award, PhD Summer School, Technical University of Denmark (2014).
• ​Canada Commonwealth Graduate Scholarship at University of Saskatchewan, Canada (2011-12).
• ​​Best Science Graduate Award, Salipur College (2006).

Key Journal Publications

• Hexagonal Boron Nitride Quantum Simulator: Prelude to Spin and Photonic Qubits, ACS Nano (2024).
• Probing Anharmonic Phonons in WS2 van der Waals Crystal by Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning, iScience (2023).
• Moiré Physics in Twisted vdW Heterostructures of 2D Materials, Emergent Materials (2021).
• Organophilicity of Graphene Oxide for Enhanced Wettability of ZnO Nanorods, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2020).
• ​​Graphene-Semiconductor Heterojunction Sheds Light on Emerging Photovoltaics, Nature Photonics (2019).
• Chemical Interaction-Guided, Metal-Free Growth of h-BN on Silicon-Based Dielectrics, ACS Nano (2017).
• ​​Large-Area, Transfer-Free, Oxide-Assisted Synthesis of h-BN Films and Heterostructures with MoS2 & WS2, Journal of the American Chemical Society (2015).
• Interfacial Non-Degenerate Doping of MoS2 and Other Two-Dimensional Semiconductors, ACS Nano (2015).​