Publications and Presentations
Refereed Journal Papers
Cargnello, Matteo, et al. "Substitutional Doping in Nanocrystal Superlattices.” Nature 524.756 (2015): 450:453. Read the article here.
Refereed Conference Papers
Datta, Bianca, et al. "Towards Inverse Design of Biomimetic Nanostructures Exhibiting Composite Structural Color." SPIE Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XII. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2019. Read the paper here.
Datta, Bianca, et al. "Direct-laser metal writing of surface acoustic wave transducers for integrated-optic spatial light modulators in lithium niobate." SPIE Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics X. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2017. Read the paper here.
Savidis, Nickolaos, et al. "Fabrication of waveguide spatial light modulators via femtosecond laser micromachining." SPIE OPTO. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016. Read the paper here.
Jolly, Sundeep, et al. "Progress in off-plane computer-generated waveguide holography for near-to-eye 3D display." SPIE OPTO. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2016. Read the paper here.
Conference Presentations
Living Light: Biological and bio-inspired optics Faraday Discussion 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry: Possibilities for tunable, synthetic structural color through inverse design and colloidal assembly (Poster Presentation), Bianca Datta, Sunanda Sharma, Christine Ortiz
SPIE Photonics West Spring 2020 (Oral Presentation), Bianca Datta, Christine Ortiz
Materials Research Society Fall 2019 (Poster Presentation), Bianca Datta, Sunny Jolly, Christine Ortiz
Materials Research Society Fall 2019 (Oral Presentation), Sunanda Sharma, Bianca Datta, Christoph Bader, Sara Wilson, Neri Oxman
MIT Materials Day Symposium 2019, Machine Learning in Materials Research (Poster Presentation): Simulation-based optimization towards fabrication of bio-inspired nanostructures exhibiting structural coloration, Bianca Datta, Christine Ortiz
MIT Polymer Day 2019: Design and Fabrication of Structurally Colored Bio-Inspired Surfaces
MIT Women in Chemistry Event 2019: Design and Fabrication of Structurally Colored Bio-Inspired Surfaces
SPIE Photonics West Spring 2019: Inverse design of biomimetic nanostructure exhibiting composite structural coloration (Poster Presentation), Bianca Datta and Sunny Jolly
Materials Research Society Fall 2018: Direct Laser Writing of Iteratively-Designed Biomimetic Photonic Structures Exhibiting Tailored Disorder (Oral Presentation), Bianca Datta, Sunny Jolly, and V. Michael Bove, Jr.
Boston Photonics Conference 2018: "Edible Diffractive Elements" (Poster Presentation)
Materials Research Society Spring 2017 Meeting (click for more info): "Mechanosensitive Cell Behavior on Electrorheological Substrates," Bianca Datta and Sunanda Sharma
SPIE Photonics West 2017: "Direct-laser metal writing of surface acoustic wave transducers for integrated-optic spatial light modulators in lithium niobate". Watch the presentation here.
New Harvest 2017(click for more info): "Living Material Library"
AAAS Mass Media Fellowship(2017)
I worked as a science writer for NOVA Next's digital team as a AAAS Fellow for the summer of 2017. Read my articles for NOVA Next here or here
Other Writing
Datta, Bianca. "This is not a hologram." FOLD (2015). Read the article here.
MIT graduate admissions blog posts: New Year's (Un)Resolutions, and on finding mentors
Slice of MIT Grad Life blog: Graduate Women Explore a Path to Professorship
Awards and Fellowships
2019 Best Poster Presentation- MIT Materials Day 2019
2019 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
2018 Collamore-Rogers Fellowship
2018 Bill Mitchell ++ Student Research Fund
2017 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship (NOVA/WGBH)
2017 Graduate Student Council Travel Grant
2015 MIT Graduate Women of Excellence. More info here.
2014 Penn Engineering Exceptional Service Award
2014 William R. Graham Materials Science & Engineering Senior Design Award (First Place in the Department). Watch the presentation here.
2012-2013 UPenn Dean's List
2010 Maryland Commission for Women: Women of Tomorrow Award
2010 Columbia Scholastic Press Association: First Place in Essay Category for "Tea Ceremony," Pulp
2009 Maryland Scholastic Press Association: First Place in Inside-Page Design, Pulp
2008 Columbia Scholastic Press Association: Color Photography for "Man on a Can," Pulp
2008 Maryland Scholastic Press Association: Magazine Photography, "Jutewhala," Weld
Conferences and Workshops
Path of Professorship, MIT, Cambridge, MA: Co-organized and ran two day workshop for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018. Invited and coordinated speakers, managed participant applications, created schedule, created supplemental written materials, and decided on content each year. More information here.
New Harvest 2017, Brooklyn, New York: Presented a poster and exhibit booth.
Affiliations
Student Member, Materials Research Society
Student Member, SPIE
Student Member, IEEE
Student Member, SWE
Student Member, AAAS