Research

Cryogenic cavity apparatus built for the CavMat project.
Cryogenic cavity apparatus built in the Lev Lab.
Diagram of a two-dimensional material heterostructure used in the CavMat project.
Example two-dimensional material heterostructure.

Current Research

I am currently working on the CavMat project at the Lev Lab at Stanford. We are building a new apparatus to engineer light-matter interactions in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. Broadly, I am interested in how optical cavities can be used to probe, enhance, and manipulate collective behavior in quantum materials.

Publications

Readout-Induced Leakage in Superconducting Circuits with Nonlinear Couplings

Authors: Sumeru Hazra, Wei Dai, Daniel K Weiss, Pranav D Parakh, Luigi Frunzio, Michel H Devoret

arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.16055, 2026

arXiv

A cryogenic apparatus for coupling two-dimensional materials to a confocal multimode optical cavity

Authors: HS Hiller, Pranav Parakh, SH Aronson, K Maeda, D Lao, J Stewart, Z She, J Wang, X Xu, T Heinz, BL Lev

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28815, 2026

arXiv

Characterization 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

Physical Review X 16 (1), 011011, 2026

Physical Review X

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

PRX Quantum

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

Current Biochemical Engineering

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