My name is Mina (Mena), I am curently a Ph.D. student in the Applied Physics department at Harvard John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences. As a Fulbright scholar, I obtained my master's degree from Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science working on advanced scientific computing, mathematical modeling, and numerical analysis of different physical phenomena and big data. As a member of the Hu lab at Harvard, my Ph.D. research focuses on understanding and manipulating the interaction of light and matter in the nanoscale to serve different technologies such as quantum information and energy harvesting. My research methodology starts with the physical modeling of a light circuit (usually a nanophotonic device) that can probe a certain quantum phenomenon. After that comes mathematical modeling and numerical optimization using the Finite Difference Time Domain technique to compute the expected performance of the device and find its optimal parameters. The realization of the device is done using cutting edge nanofabrication and material characterization techniques in the Center for Nanoscale Systems at Harvard. Finally, I evaluate the performance of the device using optical characterization methods such as Confocal microscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy, Near Field Imaging, Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscope analysis. To excite and observe certain quantum interactions using the fabricated photonic devices, I conduct optical experiments at cryogenic temperatures at 77 and 4 K (-250 ^oC).