Principal Investigator

Bingchen Deng is an Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Physics at Indiana University Bloomington. He received his B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2014 and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 2020. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University from 2020 to 2024 and as a Device Engineer at Intel Corporation from 2024 to 2025.

Prof. Deng’s research focuses on electron transport and infrared optoelectronics in low-dimensional quantum materials. He is interested in investigating a wide range of quantum phenomena in low dimensions and engineering the quantum properties for device applications. He is also interested in new materials synthesis for interrogation of fundamental physics and for enabling new technologies.

Prof. Deng’s research has been published in over 30 peer-reviewed papers in high-profile journals including Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, etc., and has been cited more than 4,000 times.