Dr. Balakrishnan Viswanathan (Bala) did his undergraduate and graduate degree (M.S) program in electrical engineering and then switched over to physics for his doctoral work.
He received his PhD in physics, under the mentorship of Prof. Julio Gea-Banacloche, from the University of Arkansas in Spring 2020. His doctoral research was on theoretical quantum optics. More specifically, his work focused on studying quantum nonlinear optical schemes at the single-photon level for quantum logical operations.
In summer 2020, Bala joined Prof. Mayukh Lahiri’s Theoretical Quantum and Optical Physics group at Oklahoma State University as a postdoctoral fellow where he worked on the theory of quantum imaging with undetected photons and its resolution limits, in the near-field configuration.
Bala joined Prof. Doerte Blume’s group as a postdoctoral research fellow in Fall 2022 where he will carry out theoretical research on quantum synchronization in very close collaboration with the experimental groups of Prof. Alberto Marino and Prof. Grant Bidermann.
