Farhan Bin Tarik

Dr. Farhan Bin Tarik is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer and Cybersecurity Engineering at Florida Polytechnic University. He brings extensive experience in curriculum development, classroom instruction and scholarly research across electrical engineering, silicon photonics, and laser materials processing.

Prior to joining Florida Poly, he served as an assistant professor at Clark State College in Springfield, Ohio, where he played a key role in establishing the Regional Fabrication and Certification Training Lab – Laser Material Processing project under an Air Force ManTech project supported by ARCTOS Technology Solutions LLC.

Following his undergraduate degree in 2015, he worked as a core network engineer at Huawei Technologies Bangladesh Ltd. He received advanced training in information and communication technologies at Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen, China after being selected as a champion in Huawei’s global CSR program, Seeds for the Future.

His research interests include optoelectronics, silicon photonics, disordered and quasicrystalline optics, integrated and quantum photonics, semiconductor fabrication, and advanced manufacturing. He founded the Bin Tarik Nanophotonics Group at Florida Poly, which provides cutting-edge research opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students in these rapidly evolving fields.

In earning his Ph.D. from Clemson University in South Carolina, Bin Tarik’s dissertation, “Subwavelength Engineering of Silicon Photonic Waveguides,” addressed key challenges in photonics, including enhanced light-matter interaction, novel nanofabrication techniques, and applications in hardware and information security.

In 2023, he was among the first recipients of the OASIS Fellowship awarded by the Ohio-Southwest Alliance on Semiconductors and Integrated Scalable Manufacturing (OASiS) and the University of Cincinnati. He also is a reviewer for several leading journals published by IEEE, Elsevier, Optica, SPIE, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Awards and Honors

• OASiS Fellowship, OASiS and University of Cincinnati, 2023
• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Group IV Photonics Conference, 2021
• Champion, Seeds for the Future, Huawei, 2015

Education

• Ph.D. in Photonic Sciences and Technology, Clemson University, 2022
• MS. in Electrical Engineering, Clemson University, 2019
• B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Dhaka, 2015

Expertise

• Optoelectronics and Silicon Photonics
• Integrated and Quantum Photonics
• Micro- and Nanofabrication
• Laser Materials Processing
• Photonics-driven Hardware and Information Security

Professional Activities

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Member, Optica, formerly known as Optical Society of America (OSA)
• Life Member, The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• Member, The Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE)
• Member, Florida Semiconductor Institute (FSI)

Selected Publications

• Judson D. Ryckman, Yingjie Lao, Farhan Bin Tarik and Azadeh Famili, “Physical unclonable function from an integrated photonic interferometer,” U.S. Patent Application Serial Number: US12352568B2. Status: Active.
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Yingjie Lao, Mustafa Hammood, Jonathan Barnes, Madeline Mahanloo, Lukas Chrostowski, Taufiquar Khan, and Judson D. Ryckman, “Optoelectronic Physical Unclonable Functions and Reservoir-Inspired Computation with Low Symmetry Integrated Photonics”, ACS Photonics 13 (1), 215-223, 2026
• David Zambrano and Farhan Bin Tarik, “Design and Fabrication of a Subwavelength-engineered Silicon Photonic Moiré Ring Resonator”, Proceedings of the Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2026
• Darian Brokaw, David Zambrano and Farhan Bin Tarik, “Scalable all-optical logic gates using cascadable silicon photonic resonator inverter”, Proceedings of Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXX Conference at SPIE Photonics West, 2026
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Yingjie Lao, Mustafa Hammood, Jonathan Barnes, Madeline Mahanloo, Lukas Chrostowski, Taufiquar Khan, Judson D. Ryckman, “Steady state reservoir-inspired computing with low symmetry physically unclonable integrated photonic circuits”, Proceedings Volume PC13581, Photonic Computing: From Materials and Devices to Systems and Applications II; PC135810B, 2025
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Yingjie Lao and Judson D. Ryckman, “Electro-optical modulation characteristics of silicon photonic moiré quasicrystal interferometers,” SPIE Conference on Active Photonic Platforms, 2024
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Azadeh Famili, Yingjie Lao and Judson D. Ryckman, “Scalable and CMOS compatible silicon photonic physical unclonable functions for supply chain assurance,” Scientific Reports 12 (1), 1-8, 2022
• Farhan Bin Tarik and Judson D. Ryckman, “Fabrication tolerant coupling between silicon strip and subdiffraction V-groove waveguide,” Optics Continuum, Vol 1, Issue 2, pp. 453-461, 2022
• Saddam Gafsi, Farhan Bin Tarik, Cody T. Nelson and Judson D. Ryckman, “Optically resonant all dielectric diabolo nanodisks,” Applied Physics Letters, 120, 261702, 2022
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Azadeh Famili, Yingjie Lao and Judson D. Ryckman, “Secure authentication of 56 physically unclonable silicon photonic integrated circuits,” Proceedings of the IEEE Group IV Photonics Conference, 2021
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Saddam Gafsi, Cody T. Nelson and Judson D. Ryckman, “Localized field enhancements and anapoles in subwavelength-engineered silicon nanodisks,” Proceedings of the Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2021
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Azadeh Famili, Yingjie Lao and Judson D. Ryckman, “Robust optical physical unclonable function using disordered photonic integrated circuits,” Nanophotonics 9, 2817–2828, 2020
• Farhan Bin Tarik, Nazmus Sakib and Judson D. Ryckman, “Efficient optical coupling to ultra-low mode area silicon v-groove waveguides,” IEEE Photonics Conference, 2019

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