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Principle Investigator
Email: Howardhw.lee@uci.edu
Associate Professor, UC Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 2012, Physics
Highlights:
Dr. Lee is a recipient of a a 2024 SPIE Fellow, 2023 Finalist of Moore Inventor Fellow, a 2023 UCI Beall Innovation Award in Physical Sciences, a 2023 SONY Focused Research Award, a 2022 Finalist of Moore Inventor Fellow, a 2021 iCANX Young Scientist Award, a 2021 Finalist of Rising Star of Light, a 2020 SPIE Rising Researcher, a 2020 Baylor Outstanding Professor Award, a 2019 DARPA Director’s Fellowship, a 2019 IEEE OGC Young Scientist Award, a 2018 NSF CAREER Award, a 2017 DARPA Young Faculty Award, a 2018 OSA Ambassador, a 2017 APS Robert S. Hyer Award, a 2018 Baylor Young Investigator Award, a 2016 Baylor Proposal Development Award, and a 2012 Croucher Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Howard Lee is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine. Before joining UCI, he was an Associated Professor in the Department of Physics at Baylor University and IQSE Fellow and visiting professor in the Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering (IQSE) at TexasA&M.
He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Caltech, working with Prof. Harry Atwater in active plasmonics/metasurfaces. He received his PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Philip Russell (2015 President of OSA).
His current research focuses on active linear, nonlinear, and quantum plasmonic/metasurface/zero-index optics, quantum biophotonics and imaging, “meta”-fiber optics, and hybrid photonic-plasmonic on-chip optical devices. His work on nano-optics, plasmonics, and photonic crystals has led to 45 journal publications in various journals, such as Science, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, ACS Photonics, and Laser & Photonics Reviews as well as 80 invited/keynote talks and 150 conference papers.
He organized more than 25 technical sessions in nanophotonics/metasurfaces in international conferences (CLEO, META, PQE, MRS) and serves as Lead Symposium Organizer for plasmonic/metasurface symposiums at 2019-2024 MRS Fall Meeting and 2020-2024 MRS Spring Meeting. He is a Founding Associate Editor for OSA Continuum and Associate Editor for Scientific Reports and Photonics journals.
Research Scientist
Ph.D. Students
Undergraduate Students
High school students
Alumni
Sudip Gurung (Graduate Student Research)( now Postdoctoral Researcher at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics)
Juan Manuel Raffo Calixto (Undergraduate researcher)
Xuguo Zhou (Undergraduate researcher)
Zoey Liu (Undergraduate researcher)
Leon Zhang (Undergraduate researcher)(now PhD at Stanford)
Kent Nguyen (Undergraduate researcher)(now PhD at UT Austin)
Alexander Galkin (Undergraduate researcher)(now PhD at UCLA)
Tingwei Liu (Undergraduate researcher)(now undergraduate at UCI)
Scott Kiehn (Undergraduate researcher)(now undergraduate at UCI)
Songtai You (Visiting undergraduate researcher)(now undergraduate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Meena Salib (High school student) (now undergraduate at UCLA)
Jingyi Yang (PhD student) (now Research Scientist at Applied Materials)
Indra Ghimire (PhD student) (now an engineer at Intel Inc.)
Khant Minn (PhD student) (now at Research Scientist at Intel, Inc.)
Susanna Weber (Summer intern, now undergraduate student at UC Berkeley)
Md Kazi Rokunuzzaman (Master student, now PhD at Missouri University of Science and Technology)
Dr. Peinan Ni (Postdoctoral Research Associate)
Dr. Sudeshna Bagchi (Visiting Scientist, now faculty at now faculty at CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization, India)
Catherine Jinmin Kim (Undergraduate student, now at Baylor University)
Andrew Zazuela (Undergraduate student, now at Baylor University)
Matthew Holquist (Undergraduate student, now at Baylor University)
Brian Ko (PhD student, co-advised)
Dr. Subhajit Bej (Postdoctoral Research Associate) (now postdoc at Tampere University)
Nicholas John (Visiting scientist) (now PhD at University of Colorado Colorado Springs)
Quandong Huang (Visiting PhD student) (now with City University of Hong Kong)
Dr. Satyendra Kumar Mishra (now postdoc at Ecole Technologic Supremere, Canada)
Long Tao (Master student)
Prof. Lei Lei (Visiting Professor) (now with China Jillian University)
Dr. Conrad Rizal (Visiting Scholar) (now postdoc at York University)
Dr. Jeremy Kunz (PhD student) (now with University of Toledo)
Jinqiannan Zhang (visiting PhD student) (now with Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Jesse Watters (Undergraduate student) (Summer 2016)
Jack Causey (Undergraduate student) (Summer 2017)
Nesta Scholer (Undergraduate student) (Summer 2017, Fall 2017)
Garand Tyson (High School Student) (May 2018 – Sep 2018) (now Undergraduate at Stanford University)
Catherine Arndt (Undergraduate researcher) (May 2017 – May 2019) (now PhD at Rice University) (2019 NSF Fellowship Recipient)
Collaborator
Prof. Marlan Scully (TexasA&M / Baylor / Princeton Universityi)
Prof. Alexei Sokolov (TexasA&M)
Dr. Jason Myers (Naval Research Lab)
Dr. Jesse Frantz (Naval Research Lab)
Prof. Markus Schmidt (University of Jena)
Prof. Din Ping Tsai (Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Prof. Sarbajit Banerjee (Texas A&M)
Prof. Andrea Marini (University of L'Aquila and Institute for Complex Systems (ISC-CNR), Italy)
Prof. Yingying Wang and Prof. Pue Wang (Beijing University of Technology)
Prof. Ulf Peschel (University of Jena)
Prof. Harry Atwater (California Institute of Technology)
Prof. Zhenrong Zhang (Baylor University)
Prof. Felix Gwo (National Tsing-Hua University; Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Prof. Yuri Lu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)