At NIST, Cicak is a member of the Advanced Microwave Photonics research project. This work is part of NIST's Quantum Information Program and combines advances in components for quantum computation based on superconductive circuits, mechanical components, and optical interactions. Cicak has contributed to a mechanical "micro-drum" resonator that can couple to microwave radiation in operation at 40 milliKelvin in a superconducting cavity. The team took the strong coupling a step further using sideband cooling to lower the temperature to below 400 microKelvin toward a quantum ground state.