Research

Epistemic agency in physics education

We focus on the epistemic dimensions of teaching and learning in physics, particularly how structure can aid students make scientific decisions, navigate uncertainty, and how encountering the boundaries of scientific knowledge can support deeper learning. As generative and agentic AIs transform teaching and learning, we are also examining how these tools affect students’ ability to think, inquire, and act as epistemic agents.

Some of our representative research work are:
Ignorance and learning of science: Science Education 107, 1 (2023)

Ongoing research:
Structuring and supporting epistemic agency in physics undergraduate coursework (IRB reference: 2026-824)

Quantum computation

Our interest lie in the physics of spin-based quantum computing platforms. We work on electrostatically-gated quantum dot qubits, donor-based spin qubits and spin qubits coupled via circuit quantum electrodynamics.

Some of our representative research work are:
Fault-tolerance with high-spin donors : arXiv:2608.05992 (2026)
Gated quantum dot qubits : npj Quant. Inf. 7, 112 (2021)
Donor qubits : Adv. Mater. 2405916 (2024)
Spin-circuit QED : Phys. Rev. B 113 (2026), arXiv:2512.00761
Spin-based quantum sensors : Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266801 (2024)

Open quantum systems, noise & error correction

We are interested in studying non-Markovianity and correlated noise. As quantum computers progress towards fault-tolerance, non-Markovian quantum processes arising from cleaner and more structured environments become important. We are also interested in bosonic codes in circuit QED systems and error correction with high-dimensional spins.

Some of our representative research work are:
Information backflow : Phys. Rev. A 111, 062214 (2025)
QEC with high-spin donors : arXiv:2608.05992 (2026)

Quantum foundations

We are interested in quantum foundational questions around the emergence of classicality and contextuality through quasiprobabilities.

Some of our representative research work are:
Quantum-classical boundary: arXiv:2601.01122 (2026)
Quantum Darwinism-QEC tradeoff: arXiv:2608.03944 (2026)

Research Grants

Education
2026 Structuring and supporting epistemic agency in physics undergraduate coursework (IRB-2026-824)
2025 What our test questions are telling us -- a practical dive into Item Response Theory
2017 Enhancing STEM education through improvisational tinkering and computational thinking

Physics
2026 Beyond Eastin-Knill: Universality and symmetry in high-dimensional quantum error correction
2026 Quantum error correction protocols tailored for non-Markovian noise in quantum sensing
2025 On Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability
2025 Signatures of non-Markovianity in driven open quantum systems
2023 Circuit quantum electrodynamics with spins: expanding the quantum toolbox
2022 Atomic engineering of donor-based spin qubits in silicon
2021 Multiaxis quantum noise spectroscopy with Bayesian inference approach
2017 Quantum control and decoherence of silicon quantum dot spin qubits

Science, Technology & Society
2020 From https to httpQ: envisioning ethics, security and trust in a world with quantum computers. (Q is for quantum)

Research Collaborations