Daksh Kumar Singh

Continuing selected research collaborations with Purdue faculty and project teams on a non-employee, remote basis following graduation.

- Classical reconciliation and post-processing workflows for a BB84 quantum key distribution (QKD) platform
- Simulation and design support for topology-optimized metasurface cavities coupled to solid-state emitters
- Physics-informed preprocessing and variationa

Conducted thesis research across integrated quantum photonics and ML-enabled optical authentication under Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva, Prof. Vladimir Shalaev, and Prof. Alexander Kildishev.

• Designed silicon nitride dual-ring resonators for quantum photonic circuits, achieving simulated intrinsic quality factors near 500,000 and controlled supermode splitting.
• Optimized fiber-to-chip inverse ta

Conducted thesis research across integrated quantum photonics and ML-enabled optical authentication under Prof. Alexandra Boltasseva, Prof. Vladimir Shalaev, and Prof. Alexander Kildishev.

Worked across nanophotonics, optical hardware security, quantum materials, metasurfaces, and experimental photonics.

• Fabricated and characterized plasmonic nanoparticle PUFs for semiconductor authentication, including thermal and mechanical tamper testing.
• Developed ML-based image segmentation and authentication pipelines, including a residual-attention CNN reaching 97.6% classification accur

Worked across nanophotonics, optical hardware security, quantum materials, metasurfaces, and experimental photonics.

Led 15+ campus tours; tailored narratives connecting academics, student life, and research opportunities; engaged 300+ prospective students/families.

Thesis: Physics-Informed Frameworks for Optical Semiconductor Authentication and Photonic Integrated Circuit Design
Committee: Alexandra Boltasseva (Chair), Vladimir Shalaev, Alexander Kildishev
Completed the thesis-based M.S.E.C.E. in one semester.

Completed a thesis-based Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering in one semester, focusing on physics-informed frameworks for optical semiconductor authentication and photonic integrated circuit design.

John Martinson Honors College
Dean's List: 7/7 undergraduate semesters
Honors Medallion; Order of the Engineer
Completed B.S. and thesis-based M.S.E.C.E. in a combined four years.

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with Dean's List honors all seven semesters, and completed both B.S. and M.S. degrees in four years.