Rate My Professor Sasan Grayli

Sasan V. Grayli is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo and a University Research Associate at Simon Fraser University. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Simon Fraser University, specializing in nanophotonics, plasmonics, and meta-optics. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Grayli joined the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo as a postdoctoral fellow. His research there focused on metasurface-based single-photon detectors for quantum sensing applications and on developing optical cavities to enhance photon indistinguishability in semiconductor quantum-dot entangled photon emitters.

During his Ph.D., Dr. Grayli demonstrated the ability to grow single-crystal, atomically flat noble metals at wafer scale and was the first to achieve large-area deposition of single-crystal gold on silver using a novel electroless deposition technique. He has contributed to projects involving the design of plasmonic metasurfaces for short-wave infrared detectors. During his postdoctoral tenure, he initiated research incorporating photonic integrated circuits into quantum repeater nodes and established a collaboration with the National Research Council of Canada on next-generation single-photon detectors. His main research interests include plasmonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and quantum nanophotonic devices. In September 2025, Dr. Grayli joined the Quantum Internet Systems Laboratory at Simon Fraser University, where his work focuses on developing enabling technologies for quantum networking and quantum sensing.