Nikki Ebadollahi is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland in the Materials Science and Engineering department completing her research at NIST in the Atom Scale Device Group of the Physical Measurement Laboratory. She is working with her advisor, Dr. Joshua M. Pomeroy, on silicon color centers and their utilization for quantum communications applications. Nikki Ebadollahi received a B.S. (2022) and M.S. (2024) in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.