Amarnath Patel

Physics & mathematics · University of Central Florida

I measure photonic lanterns at CREOL, write solvers for Maxwell's equations, and work on physics-education research at UCF Physics.

• Orlando, Florida
• amarnath.patel@ucf.edu
• résumé
• cv
• github
• orcid
• linkedin

Work

• Photonic lanterns CREOL — measuring a lantern's complex transfer matrix by off-axis digital holography, across the C-band.
• CELERIS Independent — a rigorous coupled-wave solver and metalens design pipeline, written from scratch in C++23 and CUDA.
• PolyOculus CREOL — pointing automation for an array of eight networked telescopes.
• AI text detectors FAU — what evasion techniques actually cost you in style, and buy you in detectability.
• ESTELA and Narvi UCF Physics — exam generation and interactive STEM demos, both agentic.

Writing

• Getting clangd to work on NixOS — why the standard library goes missing, and the two files that fix it.
• The built-in Windows tree command is trash — three flags, two options, and what to use instead.

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