Yuanmu Yang is currently an associate professor at the Department of Precision Instrument of Tsinghua University. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Optoelectronics from Tianjin University in 2011, and his PhD in Interdisciplinary Materials Science from Vanderbilt University in 2015. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Sandia National Laboratories from 2015 to 2017, and was a research scientist at Intellectual Ventures and a founding team member of Lumotive from 2017 to 2018. His research focuses in the area of meta-optics. He has published more than 30 journal articles, including 2 in Nature Photonics and 1 in Nature Physics, received over 5000 citations (Google Scholar). He has been granted over 10 China and US patents. He is currently the principal investigator of various research programs, including the prestigious key funding program from the National Natural Science Funding of China. His recognitions include the Jin-Guofan Young Scientist Award given by the China Instrument and Control Society as well as the Forbes China “30 under 30” in 2018.

Selected Publications:
1.S. Wen, X. Xue, S. Wang, Y. Ni, L. Sun, Y. Yang* “Metasurface array for single-shot spectroscopic ellipsometry”. Light: Science & Applications in press (2024)
2.L. Li, S. Wang, F. Zhao, Y. Zhang, S. Wen, H. Chai, Y. Gao, W. Wang, L. Cao, Y. Yang* “Single-shot deterministic complex amplitude imaging with a single-layer metalens”. Science Advances 10, eadl0501 (2024)
3.L. Li, W. Jia, C. Jin, S. Wang, Z. Shen, Y. Yang* “Single-Shot Wavefront Sensing with Nonlocal Thin Film Optical Filters”. Laser & Photonics Reviews 17, 2300426 (2023)
4.S. Wang, S. Wen, Z.-L. Deng*, X. Li, Y. Yang* “Metasurface-based solid Poincaré sphere polarizer”. Physical Review Letters 12, 123801 (2023)
5.Z. Shen, F. Zhao, C. Jin, S. Wang, L. Cao, Y. Yang* “Monocular metasurface camera for passive single-shot 4D imaging”. Nature Communications 14, 1035 (2023) (ESI highly-cited paper) (ESI highly cited paper)
6.W. Jia, C. Gao, Y. Zhao, L. Li, S. Wen, S. Wang, C. Bao*, C. Jiang*, C. Yang, Y. Yang* “Intracavity spatiotemporal metasurfaces”. Advanced Photonics 5, 026002 (2023)
7.Y. Ni, C. Chen, S. Wen, X. Xue, L. Sun, Y. Yang* “Computational spectropolarimetry with a tunable liquid crystal metasurface”. eLight (2022) (封面论文)
8.W. Jia, M. Liu, Y. Lu, X. Feng, Q. Wang, X. Zhang, Y. Ni, F. Hu, M. Gong, X. Xu, Y. Huang, W. Zhang, Y. Yang*, J. Han* “Broadband terahertz wave generation from an epsilon-near-zero material”. Light: Science & Applications 10, 11 (2021)
9.Y. Ni†, S. Chen†, Y. Wang, Q. Tan, S. Xiao*, Y. Yang* “Metasurface for Structured Light Projection over 120° Field of View”. Nano Letters 20, 6719 (2020)
10.Y. Yang*, J. Lu, A. Manjavacas, T. S. Luk, H. Liu, K. Kelley, J.-P. Maria, E. L. Runnerstrom, M. B. Sinclair, S. Ghimire, I. Brener* “High-harmonic generation from an epsilon-near-zero material”. Nature Physics 15, 1022 (2019)
11.Y. Yang*, K. Kelley, E. Sachet, S. Campione, T. S. Luk, J.-P. Maria, M. B. Sinclair, I. Brener* “Femtosecond optical polarization switching using a cadmium oxide-based perfect absorber”. Nature Photonics 11, 390 (2017) (ESI highly cited paper)
12.Y. Yang, W. Wang, A. Boulesbaa, I. I. Kravchenko, D. P. Briggs, A. Puretzky, D. Geohegan, J. Valentine* “Nonlinear Fano-Resonant Dielectric Metasurfaces”. Nano Letters 15, 7388 (2015) (ESI highly cited paper)
13.Y. Yang, I. I. Kravchenko, D. P. Briggs, J. Valentine* “All-dielectric metasurface analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency”. Nature Communications 5, 5753 (2014) (ESI highly cited paper)
14.Y. Yang, W. Wang, P. Moitra, I. I. Kravchenko, D. P. Briggs, J. Valentine* “Dielectric Meta-Reflectarray for Broadband Linear Polarization Conversion and Optical Vortex Generation”. Nano Letters 14, 1394 (2014) (ESI highly cited paper)
15.P. Moitra †, Y. Yang†, Z. Anderson, I. I. Kravchenko, D. P. Briggs, J. Valentine* “Realization of an all-dielectric zero-index optical metamaterial”. Nature Photonics 7, 791 (2013) (ESI highly cited paper)

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