We have a farewell dinner with Sudip Gurung. His new position is with NTT Inc (Dr. Myoung-Gyun Suh), working closely with Kerry Vahala’s lab at Caltech. Several of our undergraduate researchers will also join for good PhD positions. Congratulation to all of you!
• Sudip Gurung (NTT Inc.)(Caltech with Prof. Kerry Vahala)
• Leon Zhang (graduate, Stanford University)
• Kent Nguyen (graduate, UT Austin)
• Zoey Liu (graduate, UPenn)
• Xuguo Zhou (graduate, Boston College)
Stuart Love awarded precious Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (DoD NDSEC) (~$130,000).
Congratulation!
Howard gave seminar at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He had a good time during the visit. Thank you Yang Zhao for the invitation!
Howard organized a successful symposium (“Symposium EL16: Plasmonics, Metasurfaces and Metamaterials—Design, Materials and Applications”)(with Yang Zhao, Yao-Wei Huang, Pin-Chieh Wu) at 2023 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. More than 140 presentations were given in the symposium. Howard also gave two invited talks in 2 other symposiums in the conference. We delivered 4 Best Poster Awards to students (thanks Nanophotonics for the sponsorships and support). Quynh Dang and Stuart Love gave nice oral presentations in the conference.
Opening session
Jeremy Munday, Eyal Feigenbaum, Min Seok Jang, Harry Atwater, Mark Brongersma, Howard Lee, Yuri Lu, Ruzan Sokhoyan, Yao-Wei Huang,. Pin-Chieh Wu
Organizer: Howard Lee, Yang Zhao, Pin-Chieh Wu, Yao-Wei Huang
Best Poster Awards Presentation
Howard, Quynh, Stuart
Sudip Gurung is successfully defense his PhD. He is the 2nd PhD graduate in Lee group at UCI.
Congratulation!
Stuart Love is selected as one of the 10 Finalists for UCI Grad Slam.
Congratulation!
Howard gave an online seminar at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Thank you Hamidreza Ramezani for the invitation!
Howard gave a seminar at University at Buffalo. He had a good time during the visit. Thank you Peter Liu for the invitation!
Howard gave a seminar at UCSD. He had a good time during the visit. Thank you Wei Xiong for the invitation!
Chris Gonzalez was awarded the precious UC-National Lab In-Residence Graduate Fellowship (~$150,000). He will collaborate closely with researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Congratulation!
We had a group Christmas celebration at Howard’s home!
Zoey Liu is selected as a UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) Fellow.
Congratulation!
Howard organized a successful symposium (“EQ03: Symposium EQ03-Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials—From Design to Applications”)(with Yuri Lu, Artur Davoyan, David Norris) at 2023 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. More than 200 presentations were given in the symposium. He also gave an invited talk in another symposium in the conference. We delivered 9 Best Poster Awards to students (thanks for the sponsorships and supports from ENLITECH, TSMC, Nanophotonics, and ACS Photonics).
Invited speaker dinner
Best posters
Juan Calixto awarded the Edison Stem transfer scholarship for Fall of 2021 and 2022!
Congratulation!
Howard gave 3 invited talks at SPIE Optics&Photonics conference in San Diego. Most of our team members also attended the conference, and David, Chris, Sudip, and Oleksiy gave an oral presentation
Howard organized a special symposium on “active optical metasurfaces” at 2022 META Conference in Torremolinos, Spain
Howard gave an invited talk at 2023 Plasmonic Gordon Conference. Thanks Jen Dionne for the invitation! David and Quynh also attend the conference!
We had a group BBQ to celebrate the end of the quarter and farewell with the graduates. Alexander Galkin is going to UCLA for PhD. Meena Salib is also going to UCLA for undergraduate study.
Congratulation!
Leon Zhang is awarded for precious Herbert H. Chen Scholarship Award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI (one physics junior student every year).
Alexander Galkin is awarded for precious Outstanding Graduating Senior Scholarship Award (one physics senior student every year). Their names are engraved on a plaque outside the Physics Department forever.
Congratulation!
Howard gave a departmental seminar in Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI.
Howard gave an invited talk at 2022 CLEO conference in San Jose.
Howard is selected as one of the 10 Finalist for 2022 Moore Inventor Fellow.
Howard organized a successful symposium (“EQ10Advances in Metasurfaces, Metamaterials and PlasmonicsMaterials Design, Manufacturing, Applications and Industrial Aspects”) at 2022 MRS Spring Meeting in Honolulu, Haiwai. More than 160 presentations were given in the symposium. Four of our group members (Chris, David, Sudip, Leon) also attended the conference and gave oral presentations!
Invited Speaker dinner
With Harry Atwater, Mark Brongersma and folks panic near the big tree.
Sudip Gurung awarded for the distinguished Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship Award.
Congratulation!
Howard gave a webinar on "Meta"-Optical Fibers (Integration of Metaphotonics with Fiber Optics) for the Optica Fiber Modeling and Fabrication Technical Group. Watch here.
Our review paper "Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications" is published at Reports on Progress in Physics. Congratulation and thanks all the authors for the great effort!
Quynh Dang (1st year PhD student) joined us for research. Welcome Quynh!
Zhouyi Chen and Zoey Liu joined us for research as undergraduate researchers. Welcome Zhouyi and Zoey!
Howard gave an invited talk at the The 6th International Workshop on Microcavities and Their Applications (WOMA 2022)
Tingwei Liu joined us for research as undergraduate researcher. Welcome Tingwei!
Howard gave an invited talk at 2022 PQE conference.
Howard is selected for 2021 iCANX Young Scientist Award!
Howard organized a successful hybrid symposium (“EQ05 Plasmonics, Nanophotonics and Metaphotonics—Design, Materials and Applications”) at 2021 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston. More than 170 presentations were given in the symposium. He also gave an invited talk at Symposium EQ08.
Jingyi Yang successfully defense her PhD! Congratulation to Jingyi! Jingyi received more than 6 precious awards from Optica, SPIE, IEEE, MRS during her PhD. She will join Applied Materials as research scientist. Wish Jingyi all the best on her future career!
Howard gave a pizza talk seminar to the Department of Physics & Astronomy at UCI
Howard selected as finalist for the Rising Star of Light from organized by iCANX and Light Science & Applications.
We receive research grant from Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development. Congratulation!
David Dang and Stuart Love (1st year PhD student) joined us for research. Welcome David and Stuart!
Jingyi Yang awarded for precious 2021 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship. Congratulation to Jingyi!
Howard gave an invited talk at 2021 SPIE Optics & Photonics Conference.
Howard gave an Keynote talk and organized a special symposium on metasurfaces/zero-index optics at 2021 META Conference (Virtual).
Our paper "Enhanced Spontaneous Emission of Monolayer MoS2 on Epitaxially Grown Titanium Nitride Epsilon-Near Zero Thin Films" is published in Nano Letter.
Welcome Kent Nguyen (UCI) and Susanna Weber (UC Berkeley)(STROBE SURS Program) to join us for research as undergraduate researcher!
Congratulation to Indra Ghimire (PhD), Khant Minn (PhD), MD Kazi Rokun (Master), Catherine Kim (Undergraduate) on their graduation at Baylor University. Indra and Khant will join Intel Inc., Rokun joins grad school at Missouri university of science and technology, and Catherine joins grad school at UT School of Dentistry. Wish them all the success in their future career!
Jingyi Yang awarded prestigious OSA Corning Women in Optical Communications Scholarship (one of three awardee worldwide). Congratulation!
Howard gave an invited seminar for the ECE Distinguished Speaker Series at Rice University on "Extreme Light-matter Interaction in Zero-index Materials and “Meta”-Optical Fibers.
Chris Gonzalez awarded prestigious GEM Fellowship. Andrew Palmer awarded UCI Beall Applied Innovation’s Graduate Innovation Fellowship. Congratulation to Chris and Andrew!
Howard organized a successful symposium EL05 on "Advanced Functional, Linear/Nonlinear and Quantum Materials for Metasurfaces, Metamaterials and Nanophotonics" at the 2021 Virtual MRS Spring Meeting. 16 live session with ~ 100 keynote/invited/oral/poster presentations had been presented in the symposium.
Howard gave a "Shark Tank" presentation to the Industrial Advisory Board at the UCI School of Physical Science.
Howard gave an invited UCI Photonics Seminar organized by the OSA/SPIE Student Chapter at UCI.
Our paper "Interfacing photonic crystal fiber with a metallic nanoantenna for enhanced light nanofocusing" is published in Photonics Research and selected as Spotlight of Optics by OSA.
Our paper "On-chip Generation of Structured Light Based on Metasurface Optoelectronic Integration" led by collaborator Patrice Genevet's group is published in Laser and Photonics Reviews.
Alexander Galkin joined us as undergraduate researcher. Welcome Alex!
Howard gave an invited talk at SPIE Photonics West Conference.
Jingyi received Best Presentation Award for symposium F.NM02 at the 2020 Virtual MRS Spring/Fall Meeting. Congratulation!
Howard organized a symposium on "Advanced Linear/Nonlinear, Tunable and Quantum Materials for Metasurfaces, Metamaterials and Plasmonics" at the 2020 MRS Fall/Spring Meeting. More than 150 presentations and 16 keynote talks had been presented (Sponsored by ACS Photonics).
Howard gave a Pizza seminar in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCI.
Chris Gonzalez received Rose Hills Foundation Award. Congratulation!
Jingyi Yang received Best student paper award at Photonics Global Student Conference. Congratulation!
Welcome Chris, Andrew, and Leon join our new group at UC Irvine!
Howard gave an invited talk at 2020 SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference (Virtual).
Howard gave an invited talk at IQSE Summer School (Virtual).
Howard gave an invited talk at 2020 OSA Advance Photonics Congress (Virtual).
Howard joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine as tenured Associate Professor