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 more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, and they have been cited over 5000  times in total.

Ruiyang received his B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on reconfigurable photonics for optical machine learning.

Jichao received his B.S. in Optics-Electronics Information Science & Engineering from Changchun University of Science and Technology in 2018 and his M.S. degree in Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2020.  Jichao's research focuses on ultrafast carbon nanotube optoelectronic devices and their applications. 

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 going to work on the carbon nanotube materials and devices. 

Yingheng is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He is visiting our lab and working at the intersection of machine learning and photonics.  

Sidi is currently a M.S. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. She is going to work in the general field of machine learning and optics. Outside of academics, Sidi enjoys hiking and photography. 

Ben is currently an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Utah. He is working on the radiative cooling with self-assembled materials.

Ojas Kulkarni is currently finishing his degrees in computer engineering and applied mathematics at the University of Utah. He hopes to study the broad area of optical machine learning.

Jake Stanger is currently an undergraduate Electrical Engineering student at the University of Utah. He is interested in researching and learning more about electromagnetics and optics through his studies. He also enjoys making art, baking, working out, and going to concert in his free time.