Avik Dutt

Dr. Avik Dutt joined the QLab as one of the inaugural cohort of Fellows in 2023. He joined the University of  Maryland in 2022 as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and is affiliated with the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics Department, as well as the Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST). He is currently building the FloQuET lab to pursue interdisciplinary research on FearLess Optics, Quantum Engineering & Technology, by innovating on ideas from nanophotonics, quantum science and nonlinear optics, across the whole spectrum from fundamental science to applied technologies. The FloQuET lab will be particularly interested in studying phenomena that are difficult or impossible to implement in conventional platforms, such as models going beyond the usual 3 dimensions of space. This would lead to disruptive scalable solutions to challenges faced by these platforms for several applications of quantum/photonics research, be it in the areas of quantum networks, quantum simulation, sensing or computing.

Dr. Dutt received a Bachelor in Technology (with Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur,  and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University. He then completed a postdoctoral position in the Ginzton Lab at Stanford University that focused on topological phenomena such as the quantum Hall effect in time-modulated photonic structures.