About

Emergent quantum materials and devices for energy-efficient computing

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin on spintronic and ferroelectric device platforms for energy-efficient computing. My research explores how emergent materials physics — spin, topology, magnetism, and polarization — can be engineered in nanoscale devices to enable low-power memory, logic, and signal-processing technologies beyond conventional charge-based electronics.

My current research is organized around three connected themes:

• Scalable device architectures for energy-efficient computing
  Integrating quantum, spintronic, and ferroic materials into nanoscale platforms for memory, logic, and signal transduction.

• Ferroic devices for memory, neuromorphic, and cryogenic computing
  Engineering ferroelectric switching, negative capacitance, and hybrid ferroic heterostructures for nonvolatile and low-temperature memory.

• Quantum materials and spintronics
  Topological materials, altermagnets, spin-current generation, spin-orbit torque, and antiferromagnetic dynamics in device geometries.

I received my Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, where I worked with Prof. Daniel Ralph as a Kavli Fellow on quantum materials and spintronic devices. During my Ph.D., I co-led experiments demonstrating altermagnetic spin-current generation in RuO₂ (in Nature Electronics), elevated-temperature quantum anomalous Hall transport in van der Waals heterostructures (arXiv:2412.05380 and Nano Letters), and efficient thermal generation of spin currents in topological insulators (in Science Advances). These studies combined quantum materials synthesis, nanofabrication, low-temperature transport, and spin-torque measurements to probe new mechanisms for electronic-state control.My dissertation was awarded the Outstanding dissertation in Magnetism Award by the American Physical Society, recognizing the best dissertation in magnetism that year.

At Berkeley, I am building on this background to develop scalable materials and device architectures for energy-efficient computing, with a focus on antiferromagnetic dynamics, ferroelectric switching, and hybrid superconducting–ferroic systems. My long-term goal is to establish new computing hardware platforms that use quantum and ferroic order parameters as functional state variables beyond conventional charge-based electronics.

I also maintain active collaborations with academic and industrial partners, including TSMC and Western Digital, building on a collaborative research record that includes publications in Nature Materials, Nature Communications, and Advanced Materials.