Amarnath Patel

I'm a student at the University of Central Florida, majoring in physics (optics and lasers) and mathematics with a minor in computer science. I do research in Dr. Stephen Eikenberry's astrophotonics lab at CREOL, where I characterized photonic lanterns with off-axis digital holography and now automate pointing for PolyOculus, an array of eight networked telescopes. I also work in the UCF Physics department with Dr. Zhongzhou Chen on physics-education research.

Contact

Email

amarnath.patel@ucf.edu

Résumé

One page · full CV

GitHub

jeebuscrossaint

ORCID

0009-0008-9460-082X

LinkedIn

amarnath-patel

Based in

Orlando, Florida

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

• What's left of my degree — a running, semester-by-semester log of physics, math, and the CS minor.
• 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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