Dip Joti Paul
Research Assistant
PhD Student, EECS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
66 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 36-229
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: djpaul@mit.edu
Dip Joti is a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2020. He has prior research experience in nanophotonics and steep-slope FETs. His current work in the QNN group is focused on superconducting nanowires.
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