The Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics, led by Professor and Academician Gu Min, is enrolling international master students for 2020 cohort.
Professor Gu Min, Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, as well as the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, has joined USST as a Full-timer since May, 2019. Professor Gu has been recognized as the international authority and pioneer of the three-dimensional (3D) optical imaging theory. He has published more than 500 papers in internationally recognized authoritative journals (including Nature, Science, Nature Photonics and Nature Communications).
Professor Gu’s team has been committed to building a world-class Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics, with the goal of developing advanced photonics technologies to achieve a smarter, greener and safer future.
Welcome international students who h**e obtained the bachelor degree to join the centre. Our research fields cover: artificial intelligence optical chips, all-optical depth learning, intelligent materials, super capacitors and thin film solar cells.
Supervisors in the centre are as follows:
1. Min GU
Professor Min Gu is Executive Chancellor of the University Council and Distinguished Professor of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He was Distinguished Professor and Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor at RMIT University and a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council. He is an author of four standard reference books and has over 500 publications in nano/biophotonics. He is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering as well as Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Professor Gu is also an elected fellow of the AIP, the OSA, the SPIE, the InstP, and the IEEE. He was President of the International Society of Optics within Life Sciences, Vice President of the Board of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) (Chair of the ICO Prize Committee) and a Director of the Board of the Optical Society of America (Chair of the International Council). He was awarded the Einstein Professorship, the W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal, the Ian Wark Medal, the Boas Medal and the Victoria Prize for Science and Innovation. Professor Gu is a winner of the 2019 Dennis Gabor Award of SPIE.
2. Xi CHEN
Email: xichen@usst.edu.cn
Professor Xi Chen received his Ph.D. from Queensland University of Technology in 2010. He was a senior research fellow at the RMIT University before he joined the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) in 2019. He has made many innovative achievements in the fields of solar cells, super capacitors, laser processing, etc. So far, Professor Chen has presided over several research projects sponsored by the provincial level programs or by the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published 21 SCI papers in international journals, 12 of which were at the top level of SCI, including Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, Light: Science & Applications, Angewandte Chemie International Edition. The total number of citations has exceeded 1,000, and 3 papers h**e been ranked as highly cited papers in ISI database. Currently, his research field covers artificial intelligence materials, energy storage devices and solar cells.
3. Qiming ZHANG
Email: qimingzhang@usst.edu.cn
Professor Qiming Zhang obtained his Ph.D. in Optical Science from Fudan University in 2011. He had been a senior researcher of RMIT in Australia before he joined USST in 2019. So far, he has presided over one research project sponsored by provincial level program and one by the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published over 30 papers in such journals as Science, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Nature Review Materials, Optics Letters and has got 2 international patents. Professor Zhang’s research interests center on artificial intelligence nanophotonics device, optical information storage and femtosecond optical processing.
4. Haitao LUAN
Email: haitaoluan@usst.edu.cn
Dr. Haitao Luan obtained a bachelor's degree in electronic information science and technology from Shandong University in 2009, and a master's degree in Electrical Communication Engineering from Kassel University in Germany in 2013. He has continued working as a postdoctoral researcher after obtaining a Ph.D. degree from RMIT University. Haitao Luan joined University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in June 2019. His research focuses on ultra-fast laser processing, holographic display, and characteristics of amorphous silicon materials. At the same time, he is responsible for cooperation with the industry's outreach of Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics.
He has participated in the German DFG (Grant nos. HI 763 / 14-1 and SA 438 / 11-1)- Optical Gain of Organic Materials Research Project and the Australian Science and Industry Endowment Fund (RP04-024)-Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells Project.
5. Jian LIN
Email: jianlin@usst.edu.cn
Associate Professor Jian Lin received his PhD degree from the Department of Biological Engineering at the National University of Singapore (2008-2012), and continued his postdoctoral research at the same laboratory (2012-2016). He joined the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology as distinguished associate professor in 2016. His research work focuses on non-linear optical imaging, Raman spectroscopy and imaging and their biomedical applications. He has published more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nano Letters, Scientific Reports, Optics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of Biomedical Optics. He is the principle investigator of a general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2019-2022). He joined Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics in 2019.
6. Mingyu SUN
Email: sunmingyu@usst.edu.cn
Dr. Mingyu Sun received the BSc. degree in applied physics (2007 - 2011), MEng. degree in material science (2011 - 2014) from Tianjin University and PhD. degree (2015 - 2019) at the Photonics Institute of EEE, Nanyang Technological University. He successively worked at Tianjin Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials Physics and Preparing Technology (2010 - 2014), Luminous Center of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays of Nanyang Technological University (Research Associate, 2014 - 2015), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (a*star), Singapore (Research scholar, 2015 - 2019) as well as the Department of Electronic Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (Visiting scholar, 2019). Dr. Sun joined the Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics in 2019.
Dr. Sun’s current researches focus on development of all-optical on-chip neural network, design and process of micro-nano photonics devices, as well as the magneto-electro-optical coupling effect in the magnetic thin film materials. He has published 6 SCI journal papers and 6 conference papers.
7. Xinyuan FANG
Email: xinyuan.fang@usst.edu.cn
Dr. Xinyuan Fang got his bachelor degree in Material Physics in 2013 and PhD degree in Optics Engineering in 2018 from Nanjing University. From 2013-2018, he worked at the Laboratory of Micro/Nano-Photonics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy led by Professor Min Xiao. In 2018 Dr. Fang went to Melbourne as a CSC-funded visiting student at Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Nanophotonics led by Professor Min Gu. He joined the Centre for Artificial-Intelligence Nanophotonics in 2019.
Dr Fang’s researches mainly focus on orbital angular momentum, holography, nonlinear photonic crystals and quasi-phase matching et. al. He has published more than 10 papers in the SCI-indexed journals, including Nature Photonics（the first author），Nature Communications, Applied Physics Letters, Optics Letters, Optics Express，OSA Continuum etc.
