I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Over the past three years, I have developed the nanophotonic LiNbO3 (LN) platform at UIUC and demonstrated novel electro-optic and acousto-optic devices that realize optical isolation, amplification, and back-scattering suppression. My dissertation focuses on these active photonic devices realized with this platform and the potential implications for...