Kazi Islam is a technologist at the Solar Array Technology & Engineering group at JPL. He currently works on solar arrays for JPL flight missions and technology development projects. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Microdevices Lab (MDL) at JPL before moving to his current position where he studied absorption spectroscopy and nonlinear optics. Before joining JPL, Kazi worked on two distinct projects during his PhD at Tulane University. The first project was a DOE ARPA-E funded project where he helped design and build a hybrid solar energy converter. On the second project, he synthesized two-dimensional (2D) materials using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and designed and fabricated optoelectronic devices such as photovoltaics, photodetectors, etc.