Hello!

I’m a fifth-year Engineering Physics student at Queen’s. I’ve worked on nanowire quantum-dot single-photon sources with Prof. Michael Reimer at IQC, photonic Ising machines with Prof. Bhavin Shastri, and driven quantum spin chains with Prof. Ivan Iorsh.

Quantum optics is still a young field, with fundamental physics left to discover. I want to be an experimentalist who understands these systems deeply and finds new physics in them. I want to use the expertise I gain to change the world for the better.

Kingston, ON
Queen’s University Institute for Quantum Computing
resonantly driven quantum dot · Rabi reappearance

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since 2026
Undergraduate Research Award · QPD Lab, IQC Waterloo
Emission spectroscopy and phonon-sideband modelling of nanowire quantum dots, entanglement swapping, and FDTD simulation of near-unity absorption with Prof. Michael Reimer. Full-time summer 2026, part-time since.
since 2025
Undergraduate Researcher (thesis) · Shastri Lab
A photonic Ising machine from TFLN Mach-Zehnder modulators, SOAs, and an RFSoC FPGA, accelerating combinatorial optimization.
since 2024
Research Assistant · Iorsh Group
Long-range spatial correlations in the periodically driven transverse-field Ising chain. Preprint on arXiv, 2026.

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arXiv
Long range spatial correlations in the periodically driven transverse-field Ising model
I. V. Iorsh and L. Paroski. arXiv:2607.15665, 2026.
in prep
Near Unity Absorption in a Nanophotonic Structure
L. Paroski and M. Reimer, in preparation, 2026.
in prep
Ising Machines for Protein Folding and Engineering
L. Paroski and B. J. Shastri, in preparation, 2026.