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2024 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above. The list below includes those who published a paper in 2024 or later.

Metamaterials Design via and for Computation
MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was featured in a Nature Computational Science Focus Q&A on “Metamaterials Design via and for Computation,” where he discussed the synergy between photonic metamaterials and AI.

Revolutionizing Computing With Meta-ONNs
MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $467,930 NSF grant for “Design and Realization of Multiplexed Meta-Optical Neural Networks.” He will design and implement a novel class of metasurface-based ONNs, which can operate at optical frequencies and realize diverse functions.

$1.5M NSF Grant To Develop New Photonic Materials
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu and ECE Assistant Professor Sunil Mittal, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University, are leading a $1.5 million NSF DMREF grant for “Accelerating the Design and Development of Engineered Photonic Materials Based on a Data-Driven Deep Learning Approach.”

Faculty and Staff Awards 2024
The College of Engineering recognized faculty and staff at the annual faculty and staff awards event and thanked everyone for their hard work and dedication in support of our students, college, and university during the 2023-2024 academic year. View award recipients and photo gallery.
2023 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.

Unidirectional Excitation and Reflection of Surface Plasmon Polaritons Using Non-Hermitian Metagratings
MIE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu’s group published their research on “Subwavelength Control of Light Transport at the Exceptional Point by Non-Hermitian Metagratings” in Science Advances.

$4 Million DARPA Grant for Ultra-Small, Fast, High-Resolution Infrared Sensors
Matteo Rinaldi, professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE), and director of the Northeastern SMART research center, is leading a $4 million DARPA grant under the DARPA Optomechanical Thermal Imaging (OpTIm) program.

Liu’s Optical Metasurfaces Research Published in Science
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu’s research on “Breaking the Limitation of Polarization Multiplexing in Optical Metasurfaces With Engineered Noise” was published in Science. It details a new method of using engineered noise to augment the information capacity of an optical polarization multiplexing system.

Liu Selected as SPIE Fellow
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected as a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

Liu Elected 2023 Fellow Member of Optica
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was elected a 2023 Fellow Member of Optica (formerly OSA). He is being honored specifically for significant contributions to the fundamental and application of nanophotonics, particularly plasmonics and photonic metamaterials.
2022 Stanford University Annual Assessment of Author Citations
A group of COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2% of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The selection is based on the top 100,000 by c-score (with and without self-citations) or a percentile rank of 2% or above.

Liu Selected as SPIE Senior Member
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected as a senior member of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE).

Harnessing Light-Matter Interactions Using Plasmonic Nanostructures
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu received a $466K NSF grant for “Elucidating and Controlling the Spectral, Spatial and Temporal Responses of Plasmonic Nanostructures based on a Data-Driven Approach.”
COE Professors Selected in Stanford University List of Top 2% Scientists Worldwide
The following COE professors are among the top scientists worldwide selected by Stanford University representing the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists with single-year impact in various disciplines. The […]

Advancing the Design of Nanoscale Photonic Devices
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $400K NSF grant for “Non-Hermitian and Topological Plasmonic Devices for Light Manipulation at the Nanoscale.”

Interfacing Photonics with Artificial Intelligence
MIE & ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu published an invited review article in Nature Photonics about deep learning for the design of photonic structures.

Liu Awarded NSF Grant for Chiral Molecules
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $385K NSF grant for the “Chiroptical Sensing and Sorting by Structured Materials and Structured Light”.

Prof. Yongmin Liu Published in Advanced Materials
MIE/ECE Professor Yongmin Liu’s paper Probabilistic Representation and Inverse Design of Metamaterials Based on a Deep Generative Model with Semi‐Supervised Learning Strategy was published in Advanced Materials.

Using Deep-Learning for Multi-Functional Meta-Systems
MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu and ECE/Koury Associate Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu were awarded a $530K NSF grant for “Multi-Functional Optical Meta-Systems Enabled by Deep-Learning-Aided Inverse Design”.

Faculty and Staff Awards 2019
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2018-2019 academic school year. See Photo Gallery Faculty […]

Paper by Associate Professor Liu Selected as Back Cover for Laser & Photonics Reviews
A paper by MIE/ECE Associate Professor Yongmin Liu was selected for the back cover of Laser & Photonics Reviews’ September 2018 issue. The paper, titled Efficient Generation of Microwave Plasmonic Vortices […]

Metamaterials Might Allow for Invisibility
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has developed a machine learning algorithm to identify new metamaterial structures which would allow for light absorption and maybe someday even invisibility. In the world […]

Liu Awarded NSF CAREER Award
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a $500K NSF CAREER award for "Spin Plasmonics for Ultrafast All-Optical Manipulation of Magnetization in Hybrid Metal-Ferromagnet Structures".

Liu Selected as SPIE Rising Researcher
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu was selected as part of the inaugural cohort of SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing Rising Researchers. Local Coverage: The Boston Sun

Professor Liu Named in Top 10 Rising Researchers
Professor Yongmin Liu, jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has been named a 2017 SPIE Defense + Commercial […]

Prof. Yongmin Liu's research published in Physical Review Letters
MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu's research on "Manipulating Smith-Purcell Emission with Babinet Metasurfaces" was published in Physical Review Letters.

Liu Receives SPIE Outreach Grant
MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded a 2016 SPIE Cycle Education Outreach grant to develop new outreach events to raise the awareness and interest of K-12 students in optics and photonics.
FY17 TIER 1 Award Recipients
23 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY17 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 12 different projects representing over $600K dollars of investment in research.

Liu Awarded ONR Young Investigator Award
MIE & ECE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu was awarded an Office of Naval Research 2016 Young Investigator Award for "Reconfigurable Metamaterials for Beam Steering, Imaging and Sensing at Infrared Frequencies".
FY16 TIER 1 Award Recipients
18 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY16 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 11 different projects representing over $400K dollars of investment in research.

Laser of the Future
ECE & MIE Assistant Professor Yongmin Liu has created the world’s first plasmofluidic lens which can manipulate light at much smaller scales using a tiny laser beam just a few […]
FY14 TIER 1 Award Recipients
22 COE faculty and affiliates were recipients of FY14 TIER 1 Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grants for 14 different research projects.