Principal Investigator 

weilu.gao [at] utah.edu (Google Scholar)

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah

Dr. Weilu Gao received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011 and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in 2016. He continues working as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Junichiro Kono in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. Before joining the University of Utah, he spent one year working at Lightmatter (https://lightmatter.co/) as a photonics designer to design state-of-the-art monolithic electronic/photonic integrated circuits for accelerating artificial intelligence. His research interests are in photonics and optoelectronics of nanomaterials, including single-wall carbon nanotubes and two-dimensional materials, spanning fundamental research to applications in health, energy, imaging, sensing, computing, and communication. He has ~100 peer-reviewed publications, and they have been cited >6400  times in total.

Haoyu received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Chongqing University and M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He is working on the carbon nanotube materials and devices. 

Ben is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Utah as well. He is working on carbon nanotube materials, devices, and radiative cooling.

Ojas Kulkarni is currently a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at the University of Utah.  He received his B.S. degree from the University of Utah as well. He is working on optical computing and machine learning. 

Xin is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. She received her B.S. degree from Nankai University and M.S. degree from the University of Michigan. She is working on optical computing and machine learning.

Haichen is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. She received her B.A. degree in Physics and Philosophy from UPenn and her M.S. degree in Physics from Brown University. She is working on optical computing and machine learning.