Shannon Tan

Accomplishments

• Developed a wavelength-agnostic, time multiplexed, FPGA-based system to encode packet data on a quantum payload.
• Demonstrated packet switching with quantum payloads over a metropolitan fiber link between Chicago and Evanston.
• Presented results at Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2024.
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2024.FM3C.6

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the lab's FPGA system to perform traditional 10 GB/s optical networking for our quantum networking project.
• Provide insight and advice regarding equipment purchases.
• Manage the e-cycling of old electronics and computers in the lab.

Accomplishments

• Spearheaded a preventative maintenence routine among all student workers, with efforts focused on locations derived from quantitative analysis of ticket databases.
• Initiated an environmentally friendly equipment upcycling and donation program for old but operational AV equipment.

Responsibilities

• Support classroom instruction, hybrid meetings, and conferences for faculty, administration, and university executives.
• Manage and train a team of 4 student workers to run preventative maintenance operations.
• Maintain, repair, and upgrade Crestron, Biamp, and Logitech systems found in classrooms.

Accomplishments

• Implemented a MATLAB application to predict satellite visibility, rise and set times, and orbit paths.
• Presented work at a virtual poster session judged by post-graduate students and faculty.