Dr. Narendra Chaulagain received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2019 from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India where he graduated from engineering class with the prestigious Gold Medal for academic distinction. He received his M. Sc. degree in the year 2021 and PhD degree in the year 2025 in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Alberta, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Karthik Shankar. He received prestigious Alberta Innovates Graduate Student Scholarship (AIGSS), Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) and Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for academic and research excellence. He has also been awarded with MITACS Globalink Research Award, MITACS Business Strategy Internship grant, EMRS Young Researcher Award 2023, and various travel grants. Similarly, He has received best paper award at The International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (ICACCP-2019), held in Sikkim, India. He is the author of over 25 refereed publications. He also served as guest researcher in Technical University of Munich, Germany for three months under the supervision of Prof. Peter Mueller Buschbaum. Currently, he is working as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Toronto, under Prof. Nazir Kherani in the field of metamaterials and their applications in CO2 photoreduction and photocatalytic water-splitting.