Ioana Craiciu is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Microdevices and Sensor Systems Section at JPL. She obtained an undergraduate degree in Nanotechnology Engineering from the University of Waterloo, followed by a PhD in Applied Physics from Caltech. Her research interests lie at the interface of engineering and physics. In her PhD thesis work, she built quantum memories for light using nanostructured resonators coupled to ensembles of rare earth ions. At JPL, she is part of the superconducting devices group, where she is working on designing, testing and optimizing superconducting nanowire single photon detectors