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PEOPLE / THE LAB
Discovery is
a collective act.
We bring together researchers across optics, nanofabrication, materials, computation, and the unexpected places where those fields meet.
Photo: Columbia EngineeringPRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Nanfang Yu
Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Prof. Nanfang Yu studies the interaction between light and structured materials at the nanometer scale. His group creates new optical devices—from metasurfaces and integrated photonics to quantum and bio-inspired photonic systems.
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Doctoral Researcher
Qian Liu
David Liu


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Graduate / Undergraduate Student
Alexander Sau Hang Ching
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