Michal Bajcsy

Dr. Michal Bajcsy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and has an affiliation with the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo.

He earned his PhD in Applied Physics and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Dr. Bajcsy’s groundbreaking doctoral research, supervised by Mikhail Lukin, included the demonstration of stationary light pulses and studies of interactions between tightly confined cold atoms and few-photon pulses within hollow-core photonic-crystal fibers. He further enriched his research experience as a visiting student in Vladan Vuletić's group at MIT. Following his PhD, he completed postdoctoral training at Stanford University in the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab under Jelena Vučković, focusing on solid-state cavity QED systems using quantum dots embedded in photonic crystals.

At the University of Waterloo, Dr. Bajcsy’s research centers on developing scalable photonic devices and quantum optics experimental platforms. His work leverages quantum emitters such as laser-cooled atoms, quantum dots, and color centers, integrated with nanophotonic structures, to advance the frontier of quantum technologies.

• Coupling of quantum emitters to nano-photonics structures, Development of on-chip platforms, Non-classical light sources and quantum memories based on mesoscopic ensembles of quantum emitters, Frozen light, dark-state polaritons, all-optical switching at extremely low light levels

• 2010, Doctorate Applied Physics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, U.S.A
• 2001, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Harvard University, U.S.A

• ECE 404 - Geometrical and Physical Optics
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021
• ECE 493 - Special Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Taught in 2024
• ECE 630 - Physics and Models of Semiconductor Devices
  • Taught in 2024
• ECE 770 - Special Topics in Antenna and Microwave Theory
  • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2022
• MATH 213 - Signals, Systems, and Differential Equations
  • Taught in 2022, 2023
• QIC 890 - Topics in Quantum Information
  • Taught in 2019, 2021, 2022

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• Bastug Azer B., Gulsaran A., Pennings J.R., Karimi R., Ashrafi Belgabad A., Xu A.H., Zaidan L., Kocer S., Sanderson J., Bajcsy M., Pope M.A., and Yavuz M., Core-shell defective TiO2 nanoparticles by femtosecond laser irradiation with enhanced photocatalytic performance, Materials Advances, Volume 4, 1297-1305, Canada, 2023.
• Bastug Azer B., Gulsaran A., Pennings J.R., Karimi R., Ashrafi Belgabad A., Xu A.H., Zaidan L., Kocer S., Sanderson J., Bajcsy M., Pope M.A., and Yavuz M., Erratum: Core-shell defective TiO2 nanoparticles by femtosecond laser irradiation with enhanced photocatalytic perfor, Materials Advances, Volume 4, 1403, Canada, 2023.
• Woodman O., Pasharavesh A., Wilson C., and Bajcsy M., Detecting Single Microwave Photons with NV Centers in Diamond, Materials, Volume 16, Canada, 2023.
• Semnani B., Maruf R.A., Soltani M., Muthu V.R.R., Sarkar S., Kuru S., and Bajcsy M., Metasurface structures for control of quantum emitters, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 127, Canada, 2023.
• Novodchuk I., Kayaharman M., Prassas I., Soosaipillai A., Karimi R., Goldthorpe I.A., Abdel-Rahman E., Sanderson J., Diamandis E.P., Bajcsy M., and Yavuz M., Electronic field effect detection of SARS-CoV-2 N-protein before the onset of symptoms, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 127, Canada, 2022.
• Maruf R.A., Venuturumilli S., Bharadwaj D., Anderson P., Qiu J., Yuan Y., Semnani B., Malik S., Zeeshan M., Dalacu D., Poole P., Reimer M., and Bajcsy M., Single-photon source based on a quantum dot emitting at caesium wavelength, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 127, Canada, 2022.
• Novodchuk I., Kayaharman M., Ausri I.R., Karimi R., Tang X.S., Goldthorpe I.A., Abdel-Rahman E., Sanderson J., Bajcsy M., and Yavuz M., An ultrasensitive heart-failure BNP biosensor using B/N co-doped graphene oxide gel FET, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Volume 127, Canada, 2021.
• Novodchuk I., Bajcsy M., and Yavuz M., Graphene-based field effect transistor biosensors for breast cancer detection: A review on biosensing strategies, Carbon, Volume 127, 431-453, Canada, 2021.
• Ryou A., Whitehead J., Zhelyeznyakov M., Anderson P., Keskin C., Bajcsy M., and Majumdar A., Free-space optical neural network based on thermal atomic nonlinearity, Photonics Research, Volume 9, 128-134, United States, 2021.
• Bharadwaj D., Anderson P., Venuturumilli S., Al Maruf R., Qiu J., Yoon T., Semnani B., Yuan Y., Du J., Zeeshan M., Poole P., Dalacu D., Reimer M., and Bajcsy M., Interfacing quantum dots with laser-cooled atomic ensembles, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume 127, Canada, 2021.