Sanket Deshpande, PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received a prestigious Grainger Fellowship for graduate researchers.
Deshpande works in the research group of Jack St. Clair Kilby Professor Mikhail Kats, where he designs, fabricates, and tests nanophotonic components to generate optical profiles for trapping and manipulating atoms. These systems are used for quantum sensing, communication and computing applications. “It is very exciting to design the fundamental building blocks for the quantum ecosystem,” Deshpande states.
Deshpande earned a bachelor’s degree with a double major in physics and electrical engineering from the Birla Institute of Science & Technology (BITS Pilani) in India, where he led a team to launch India’s first near-space student experiment. Between completing his undergraduate degree and starting his PhD at UW–Madison, he worked at a quantum sensing startup in Singapore.
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