The Physics Department
Bhavin J. Shastri
Assistant Professor
Physics, Queen's University
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Bio
Dr. Bhavin J. Shastri is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Physics at Queen’s University, Canada, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Canada. He was an Associate Research Scholar (2016-2018) and Banting/NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2016) at Princeton University. He received a Ph.D. from McGill University in 2012.
Dr. Shastri's research is on the design and experimental demonstration of integrated photonic devices and systems for neuromorphic computing, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum machine learning, and quantum state tomography. A central theme is optical physics for information processing by unifying nanophotonics and complex systems (e.g. neural networks) on emerging substrates (e.g. 2D materials with silicon photonics).
He has published more than 80 journal articles and 100 conference proceedings, seven book chapters, and given over 65 invited talks and lectures, five keynotes, and four tutorials. He is a co-author of the book (CRC Press, 2017) Neuromorphic Photonics, a term he helped coin. Dr. Shastri is the recipient of the 2022 SPIE Early Career Achievement Award and the 2020 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics "for his pioneering contributions to neuromorphic photonics" from the ICO. He is a Senior Member of Optica and IEEE.