Ash Kannan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Georgia, working under the supervision of Dr. Yiping Zhao. His research focuses on nanomaterials, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and machine learning for chemical detection and molecular identification. His work integrates plasmonic nanostructures, thin-layer chromatography (TLC), and computational spectral analysis to develop advanced sensing techniques for complex chemical mixtures.