Mengdi Zhao is a photonics engineer at QuEra Computing Inc. since September 2023, with a strong background in nonlinear photonics, quantum optics, and optomechanics gained through a six-year tenure as a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior experience includes an internship as a research scientist at Meta, focusing on augmented reality waveguide design, where Mengdi contributed to the optimization of AR display performance through physics-based components analysis and system simulations. Mengdi holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
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