I am a researcher at the Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies – C2N, a joint research unit of CNRS and Université Paris-Saclay.
I received my M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering in 2010 and my Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2014, both from Politecnico di Milano. In 2012 I had the opportunity to spend five months with the Photonics Integration group at Eindhoven University of Technology. During my doctoral studies I worked on foundry Process Design Kits for photonics, device modelling, and distributed effects of the waveguide roughness on guided light propagation (radiation losses, back-scattering and radiative cross-talk). This work was carried out within the EU projects euroPIC and Paradigm, which pioneered the use of circuit simulators, generic technologies and Multi-Project Wafer runs for photonic circuits design and fabrication.
Currently, my research interests are related to novel applications of inverse design, optimization, and machine learning algorithms to efficiently design complex photonic devices. I work on the application of stochastic techniques to the analysis and optimization of photonic components, with a focus on predicting and compensating the effect of manufacturing variability. My research topics include also the design of echelle grating filters, with a particular focus on athermal devices, and ultra-efficient edge couplers and surface grating couplers based on subwavelength metamaterials.