Blending entrepreneurship with integrated photonics: Juniyali Nauriyal

Juniyali Nauriyal, a doctoral student at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics, said she was always interested in physics but she had a special knack for optics. She received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Mumbai in India, with a major in instrumentation and control systems. After earning a Master of Science degree from Rochester, she said she had fallen in love with the school and with optics as a field, and she knew she wanted to stay at the university’s Institute of Optics to work toward earning her doctorate. On top of her regular course load, Nauriyal is researching integrated photonics at the university’s Cardenas Lab for Nanoscale and Integrated Photonics, led by...