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Raktim Sarma is a Principal Member of Technical Staff Sandia National Laboratory with extensive experience in the fields of nanophotonics, nonlinear optics, silicon photonics, optoelectronics, artificial intelligence, and optical computing. Raktim is an experienced Principal Investigator, having served on numerous multi-institutional projects in the areas of silicon photonics, artificial intelligence, metamaterials, optical computing, image processing, compressive sensing, nonlinear optics, and development of miniaturized optoelectronic sensors and detectors. Raktim is also currently serving as technical consultant and advisor for 3 photonics-related startups.

Expertise

• Nanofabrication
• Integrated photonics 
• Silicon photonics.  
• Spectroscopy
• Adaptive wavefront shaping
• Linear and nonlinear optical characterization and measurements
• Computational skills:
  • Developing numerical simulation algorithms for electromagnetic modeling, machine learning
  • Electromagnetic modeling using finite-element and finite-difference methods 

Education

PhD, Applied Physics, Yale University