10/23/2026
Meet Ryan Schilling, a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
His research combines nanomechanics and integrated photonics. Schilling developed strain-engineered silicon nitride resonators and chip-scale optical systems for precision sensing, quantum-limited measurement, and microwave-to-optical quantum transduction.
He earned his doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, his MS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto, and his BS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Before joining Stony Brook, he was a Senior Scientist in Optical Physics at Corning Incorporated, and before that a postdoctoral researcher at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.