COSMOS

Centers for Complex Optical Fields and Meta-optical Structures

Dr. Qiwen Zhan

Dr. Qiwen Zhan is National Distinguished Professor of Nanophotonics at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He received BS in Physics (optoelectronic) from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2002. He was appointed assistant professor (2002), associate professor of life tenure (2008), full professor of life tenure (2012), founded Nano Electro-Optics Laboratories of Dayton University, and was the director of the Fraunhofer Center at Dayton University. The main research fields include light field manipulation and its interaction with micro/nanostructures, nanophotonic, biophotonic, super-resolution imaging and nanostructure characterization. Currently, he holds various editorial roles, such as being an Associate Editor for Optica, a journal published by the Optical Society of America (OSA), and serving as an Associate Editor for Photonix, the journal of the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering. Additionally, he is a member of the editorial boards of Scientific Reports, a publication of the Nature Publishing Group, and the Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, published by Springer Nature. Qiwen Zhan also serves as a director for the Chinese Society of Optical Engineering. Due to pioneering work in optical field manipulation and nanophotonics, Qiwen Zhan was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) in 2012 and as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA) in 2013. He has published over 160 research papers in prestigious international journals such as Advances in Optics and Photonics, Nature Photonics, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Nanophotonics, Advanced Optical Materials, Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Applied Physics Letters. These papers have been cited over 12,000 times, with the highest number of citations for a single paper exceeding 2,750. Additionally, he has published 1 book, 9 book chapters, and possessed 6 US patents/patent applications. Notably, his work in high-resolution ellipsometric imaging and near-field Raman technology has been transferred to and developed by industrial companies in the United States and Germany.

HONOR

荣誉

Haifeng Hu is a Distinguished Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. He obtained a BS degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Jilin University in 2007 and earned a Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. He worked as a visiting scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo from November 2011 to October 2012. In June 2013, he started his teaching career at Northeastern University and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2017. In 2020, he joined the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
His primary research area focuses on nanophotonics and optical field manipulation. He has worked on creating highly localized chiral "light needles" by focusing orbital angular momentum beams using strong focusing optical systems, which enhances circular dichroism signal intensity and spatial resolution simultaneously. He proposed the concept of "Rainbow Trapping" using hyperbolic metamaterials, analyzed the mechanism of anomalous mode conversion within, and designed and fabricated ultra-broadband absorption structures. He also developed a tunable mode converter for microstructured circular core optical fibers, enabling selective excitation of optical fiber orbital angular momentum modes.
Haifeng Hu has led or participated in more than 10 national and provincial research projects. He has served as a reviewer for journals such as Optics Letters, Optics Express, Scientific Reports, and IEEE Photonic Journal. He has published over 50 SCI-indexed papers in journals, including Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Advanced Optical Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry, Applied Physics Letters, and Scientific Reports. His work has been recognized with 2 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards, and he holds 8 granted invention patents.

Haifeng Hu

Distinguished Professor

Jian Chen received his Ph.D. in Signal and Information Processing from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2017. He pursued joint doctoral training in the United States at the University of Dayton from 2015 to 2017. In May 2018, he joined the faculty at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. In 2019, he was awarded the title of "Shanghai Youth Eastern Scholar," and in 2022, he received the "Shanghai Star Plan" recognition. His research interests encompass nanophotonics, optical field control, and the interaction of light with matter.
He has published over 40 papers in journals such as Nature Photonics, Science Bulletin, Nanophotonics, ACS Photonics, Optics Express, and Applied Optics. He has also contributed one chapter to an all-English monograph. He holds four national invention patents. Currently, he is the principal investigator for one National Natural Science Foundation of China project and one Shanghai Natural Science Foundation project.

Jian Chen

Associate Professor

Liangliang Gu received a BS degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Southeast University in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics at the Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
In April 2019, he joined the faculty at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. His research focuses on the development of compound semiconductor terahertz and infrared detector units, arrays, and focal plane array devices. He has published over 10 papers in journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. He has led or participated in more than 10 national and provincial research projects.

Liangliang Gu

Lecturer

Qian Cao received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Hamburg in Germany in April 2020. In August of the same year, he joined the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology as a postdoctoral researcher in the field of optical engineering. His research focuses on ultrafast optics, spatiotemporal optical field control, and nonlinear optics.
Qian Cao has published over 20 papers in optical academic journals, including Nature Photonics, Science Bulletin, APL Photonics, Photonics Research, Optics Express, and Optics Letters. He is currently the principal investigator for one National Natural Science Foundation of China project and one research project from the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission.

Qian Cao

Postdoctoral Fellow at Hujiang

Xinrui Lei received a BS degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013 and completed a Ph.D. in Science at the same university in 2018. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Shenzhen University and served as an Assistant Researcher at King's College London in the United Kingdom.
In January 2022, Xinrui Lei joined the faculty at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. His research areas include nanophotonics and spintronics. He has published over 10 papers in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, and Nanophotonics. He is currently the principal investigator for one National Natural Science Foundation of China project and one research project from the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission.

Xinrui Lei

Distinguished Professor

Yuanyuan Liu earned a BS degree in Engineering from Hunan University in 2015, a Master's degree in Engineering from Chongqing University in 2018, and a Ph.D. in Engineering with a specialization in Electronic Science and Technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in June 2022.
In August 2022, she joined the faculty at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Her research focuses on topics such as coherent diffraction imaging, phase retrieval techniques, wavefront shaping, and optical field control. She has published over 6 papers in journals including Optics Express, Optics Letters, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, and Photonics Research.

Yuanyuan Liu

Lecturer

Jiachen Liu received a BS degree in Engineering with a major in Electronic Science and Technology (Experimental Class) from Jilin University in 2017. In 2022, she completed her Ph.D. in Engineering with a major in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics at the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
In September 2022, Jiachen Liu joined the faculty at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Her research focuses on integrated optoelectronics and nanophotonics. She has published 9 research papers in academic journals, including the Journal of Lightwave Technology, the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, and Science China Information Sciences.

Jiachen LIU

Lecturer

Ni Zhang received a BS degree in Science from Xinyang Normal University in 2016. In 2022, she completed her Ph.D. at Nankai University (successive postgraduate and doctoral programs of study).
In September 2022, Ni Zhang joined the faculty at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. Her research focuses on nanophotonics and two-dimensional material metasurfaces. She has published 8 research papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, Optics Express, and Nanotechnology.

Ni Zhang

Lecturer

In 2017, Jinzhan Zhong obtained a BS degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University. Subsequently, in 2022, he completed his Ph.D. in Engineering at the same university.
In September 2022, Jinzhan Zhong joined the faculty at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology in the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research focuses on singular optics and topological manipulation of optical fields. He has published over 10 papers in academic journals, including Nature Communications, Optics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, and Optics Express.

Jinzhan Zhong

Postdoctoral Fellow at Hujiang

Hend Sroor obtained a Ph.D. from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in January 2019 under the guidance of Professor Andrew Forbes. In June of the same year, she joined the postdoctoral research program at the School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology.
Her research is focused on structured light lasers, novel laser cavity theory, nonlinear optics, and related areas. She has published more than ten research papers in academic journals, including Nature Photonics, Physical Review Applied, and Optics Express. Additionally, she is currently leading one project funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

Hend Sroor

Outbound Postdoctor

Xiaogang Chen graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China. He then pursued his Ph.D. and completed his postdoctoral research in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in the United States. During his time at Columbia University, he collaborated with the IBM Watson Laboratory, focusing on research in silicon-based integrated optics and silicon-based nonlinear photonics.
Afterward, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and worked within the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL). His primary research areas included 3D photonics integration technology, compound semiconductor micro-nanofabrication processes, and third-generation photovoltaic devices based on quantum dots.
Currently, Xiaogang Chen serves as the Chief Scientist at CreaLights, a photonic technology company located in Suzhou, China. His work primarily revolves around fundamental scientific research related to optoelectronic technologies. His research areas encompass 3D integrated optics, silicon-based nanophotonics, active semiconductor optoelectronic devices, optical fiber communication technology, near-field optics, and biophotonics.

Xiaogang Chen

兼职教授(Adjunct Faculty)