Ben received his B.S and M.S in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2013 and 2015 respectively. His master’s thesis was supervised by Prof. Scott Carney, and he studied the competing effect between enhancement and extinction of spectroscopic signals from samples in the presence of metallic nanoparticles using Kerker’s scattering formalism.

In the Huo group, Ben is investigating the properties of exciton-polariton systems with quantum dynamical methods such as mixed quantum-classical (MQC) methods and the hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) technique.

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

B. S. in Electrical engineering 2013
M. S. in Electrical engineering 2015

University of Rochester

M. A. in Physics 2022