Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

Research Scientist | MIT

Hello! I'm Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working with Prof. Dirk Englund. I am also a member of the Quantum Photonic & AI Group. I earned my PhD in Quantum Optics from the University of Sheffield in 2021, where I was a University Prize Scholarship Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Maurice Skolnick (FRS), Mark Fox, and Luke Wilson. I then joined the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland to work with Prof. Mohammad Hafezi. My research spans quantum photonics, topological photonic circuits, optical frequency combs, on-chip quantum synchronization, chiral quantum optics with solid-state quantum emitters, and 2D-materials-integrated plasmonics. My PhD work on semiconductor topological quantum photonic integrated circuits was recognized with the UK's Rank Prize Award in 2021. You can read more about my research here and find an up-to-date list of my publications here. ## Research highlights
Observation of topological frequency combs

Observation of topological frequency combs
Science 384 1356-1361 (2024)

Nested frequency-phase matching for integrated nonlinear photonics

Nested frequency-phase matching for integrated nonlinear photonics
arXiv: 2506.15016 (2025)

Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator

Giant enhancement of exciton diffusion near an electronic Mott insulator
arXiv: 2409.18357 (2025)

On-chip multi-timescale optical synchronization

On-chip multi-timescale optical synchronization
Science Advances, 11 (37) (2025)

Spin-selective strong light-matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system

Spin-selective strong light-matter coupling in a 2D hole gas-microcavity system
Nature Photonics, 17 (912-916) (2023)

Optical pumping of electronic Landau levels with vortex light

Optical pumping of electronic Landau levels with vortex light
Nature Photonics, 19 (156-161) (2025)

Excitonic Mott insulator in a Bose-Fermi-Hubbard system of moiré WS2/WSe2 bilayer

Excitonic Mott insulator in a Bose-Fermi-Hubbard system of moiré WS2/WSe2 bilayer
Nature Com 15 2405 (2024)

Dynamic control of 2D non-Hermitian photonic corner states in synthetic dimensions

Dynamic control of 2D non-Hermitian photonic corner states in synthetic dimensions
Nature Communications 15, 10881 (2024)

Sub-wavelength optical lattice in 2D materials

Sub-wavelength optical lattice in 2D materials
Science Advances 11 (13) (2025)

Soliton dynamics in on‑chip optical frequency combs

2D‑materials cavity coupling for quantum photonics

Topological quantum photonic circuit (Corbino geometry)

MIT Blender Simulation: Quantum Photonics