Second image of the cryogenic atom chip microscope setup. First image of the cryogenic atom chip microscope setup.
We built this!                                          But not this - example of a 2D material we use

Current Research

I am currently working on the CavMat project at the Lev Lab at Stanford. We are building a new apparatus (see image above) to engineer light-matter interactions in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides.

Publications

Spectroscopy of drive-induced unwanted state transitions in superconducting circuits
Authors: W Dai, S Hazra, DK Weiss, PD Kurilovich, T Connolly, HK Babla, S Singh, VR Joshi, AZ Ding, PD Parakh, J Venkatraman, X Xiao, L Frunzio, MH Devoret
arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.24070, 2025
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Hamiltonian extrema of an arbitrary flux-biased Josephson circuit
Authors: Alessandro Miano, VR Joshi, G Liu, W Dai, PD Parakh, L Frunzio, MH Devoret
PRX Quantum 4 (3), 030324, 2023
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Eco-friendly transformation of waste biomass to biofuels
Authors: Pranav D Parakh, Sonil Nanda, Janusz A Kozinski
Current Biochemical Engineering 6 (2), 120-134, 2020
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Conferences

An apparatus for coupling two-dimensional materials to cavity photons
Presenter: Pranav D Parakh (Stanford University)
Author: Han Hiller (Stanford University)
APS DAMOP Meeting, Poster Session I, June 17, 2025

Investigating readout-induced state transitions in a multimode Josephson circuit
Authors: Wei Dai, Sumitro Hazra, Xu Xiao, Jayameenakshi Venkatraman, Zhixin Wang, Pranav Parakh, Daniel Weiss, Luigi Frunzio, Michel Devoret
APS March Meeting Abstracts, 2024