Chaoxuan (Ellen) Ma has been selected for a 2018 IBM PhD Fellowship Award, and is currently a graduate student in the Micro/Nano-Photonics Group of Prof. Mookherjea. The IBM PhD Fellowship Awards Program, created in the 1950s, is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional PhD students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines. Ellen's graduate research is on quantum information and communication technologies based on photonics. Her research has been published in first-author papers in Optics Express, Optica and IoP Quantum Science and Technology, and in multiple presentations at the CLEO Conference, including a post-deadline paper last year in collaboration with Intel.