Nakul Nandhakumar
- Ph.D. Student, University of California, San Diego
- Visiting Student (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering
About
Nakul Nandhakumar was a Visiting Student Research Intern at the Integrated Photonics Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Yating Wan at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2024.
During the internship, Nakul was also a fourth-year undergraduate pursuing a bachelor’s degree (majoring in Computer Engineering) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) with GPA of 4.0/4.0, and is expected to graduate in 2025. At UCSD, Nakul assists with research on photonic reservoir computers in the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics (UNO) Group under Dr. Yeshaiahu Fainman and senior Ph.D. student Prabhav Gaur. Nakul also has done internship in Intel (Jun-Sep, 2022) and UCSB (Jun-Sep, 2020).
Nakul published a first-author CLEO paper during the internship
He will continue his Ph.D. study in UCSD in 2025, congratulations!
Research interests
Nakul’s research interests are in silicon photonics and optical reservoir computing.
Education profile
- B.S. in UCSD, USA, 2021-2025 (GPA 4.0/4.0)
- Internship in Intel, USA (Jun-Sep, 2022)
- Internship in UCSB, USA (Jun-Sep, 2020)
