Rodrick Kuate Defo

TBA

Biography:

Dr. Kuate Defo is an assistant professor at Syracuse University. His work focuses on quantum theory of solids, computational electronic structure methods, point defects in semiconductors and inverse design for large-scale photonic optimization. Dr. Kuate Defo completed his Ph.D. in Physics at Harvard University and was a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard and Princeton University before joining Syracuse University. 

Dr. Kuate Defo’s research is focused on the theory underpinning the design of efficient devices for classical and quantum sensing, communication, and computation. His research achieves these aims through the development of ab initio approaches to predict solid-state material properties; the determination of fundamental limits and efficient topology-optimization procedures to enhance light-matter interactions in nanophotonic devices; and the discovery and characterization of materials. He is particularly interested in the charge-state stability of point defects in wide band gap semiconductors for quantum sensing applications and in the dynamical process by which equilibrium of the Fermi level occurs in semiconductors. His program for research in nanophotonics uses computational and theoretical techniques to explore nanostructuring as a means of engineering materials with desirable figures of merit including large photonic bandgaps or significant Purcell enhancement.

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