Professor Prashant Jain has been named one of seven researchers at UIUC to receive an Institute for Advance Computing Applications and Technologies (IACAT) Fellowship. The one year fellowship will enable Prof. Jain to pursue collaborative projects with the researchers and computer technology experts at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

Jain will work with NCSA’s Sudhakar Pamidighantam to develop a platform for computational characterization and prediction of novel nano-optic phenomena. This platform will provide key design guidelines for engineering of optical resonances and electromagnetic fields using metal/semiconductor nanostructures with utility in enhanced light harvesting, ultrasensitive sensing, and induction of non-natural light-matter interactions in materials and molecules.