Faculty

Wenshan Cai

Wenshan Cai
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, jointly appointed in Materials Science and Engineering
wcai (at) gatech (dot) edu

Dr. Wenshan Cai is a full professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in Materials Science and Engineering. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He received his B.S. and M.S. from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2008. His research is focused on nanophotonic materials and devices, in which he has made major impacts on the evolving field of plasmonics and metamaterials. His current research interests encompass optical metamaterials & metasurfaces, plasmonic nanodevices, photonic design with artificial intelligence, optical imaging, nonlinear optics, ultrafast phenomena, integrated photonics, and photovoltaics. Dr. Cai has published ~70 journal articles, which in total have been cited ~20,000 times. He authored the book, Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications, which is used as a textbook or a major reference around the world. He is the recipient of several distinctions, including the OSA/SPIE Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.

Current Members

Anjan Goswami

Anjan Goswami
PhD Student
agoswami45(at)gatech(dot)edu

Anjan received his B.Sc. in EEE from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and his M.S. in EE from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently pursuing his PhD in ECE at Georgia Tech. He likes reading and playing chess.

Taehyuk Park

Taehyuk Park
PhD Student
tpark300(at)gatech(dot)edu

Taehyuk received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. He likes learning multiple languages, cooking, playing ping pong, and traveling.

Sujoy Mondal

Sujoy Mondal
PhD Student
smondal49(at)gatech(dot)edu

Sujoy received his B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). He is currently pursuing his PhD in ECE at Georgia Tech. He likes playing soccer, cricket, watching movies, and traveling.

Mohammad Tavakol

Mohammad R Tavakol
PhD Student
tavak(at)gatech(dot)edu

Mohammad received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology and Amirkabir University of Technology, respectively. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D.

Kristen P Gram

Kristen P Gram
PhD Student
kgram6(at)gatech(dot)edu

Kristen received her B.Sc. degree in Physics with a concentration in Quantum Information from Emory University in 2024. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, running, and studying linguistics

Zeyu Pan

Zeyu Pan
PhD Student
zp93(at)gatech(dot)edu

Zeyu received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from Hong Kong Baptist University and his M.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Cornell University. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in ECE at Georgia Tech. He enjoys working out, hiking, and playing video games in his free time.



Previous Members

Andrew Kim

Andrew Kim
PhD Student
a.s.kim(at)gatech(dot)edu

Andrew received his BS in Integrated Information Technology from Yonsei University in Korea. He completed his PhD in ECE from Georgia Tech in 2023. He is currently working as a post-doctoral research scholar at Seoul National University. He is a passionate cello player.

Dayu Zhu

Dayu Zhu
PhD Student
dayuzhu(at)gatech(dot)edu

Dayu Zhu received his B.E. from Xi'an Jiaotong University and completed his PhD in ECE from Georgia Tech. He likes sports and reading.

Lakshmi Raju

Lakshmi Raju
PhD Student
lraju(at)gatech(dot)edu

Lakshmi received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2017. She pursued her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Kyutae Lee

Kyutae Lee
PhD Student
ktlee(at)gatech(dot)edu

Kyutae received both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Korea University. Then he completed his PhD in ECE at Georgia Tech. He is currently working at LG.

Mohammad Taghinejad

Mohammad Taghinejad
PhD Student
mtaghinejad3(at)gatech(dot)edu

Mohammad received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran and Shiraz University, respectively, in Iran. He complted his PhD in ECE from Georgia Tech. He is currently working as a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford.

Zhaocheng Liu

Zhaocheng Liu
PhD Student
zcliu(at)gatech(dot)edu

Zhaocheng received his B.S. in Physics from Nankai University and M.S. in ECE at Georgia Tech, where he is pursuing his Ph.D. He has a passion for interdisciplinary research.

Sean Rodrigues

Sean Rodrigues
PhD Student
srodrigues7(at)gatech(dot)edu

Sean received his BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. He is currently working as a senior scientist for Toyota North America. He's an avid runner and loves indie music.

Lei Kang

Lei Kang
Post-Doc

Lei earned his PhD from Tsinghua University in Materials Science, his M.S. in Optical Engineering, and his B.S. in applied physics from Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Yonghao Cui

Yonghao Cui
Post-doc

Dr. Cui received his PhD and MS from the University of Texas at Dallas in Electrical Engineering and earned his B.S. from Peking University. He specializes in nanofabrication systems.

Xueyue Zhang

Xueyue Zhang
Undergrad

Xueyue Zhang received her BS from Tsinghua. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Caltech.

Patrick Panuski

Patrick Panuski
Undergrad
ppanuski3(at)mail(dot)gatech.edu

Patrick is currently attending Georgia Tech and working toward a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BS in Physics. He plays Ultimate Frisbee and plans to work in electromagnetics.

Shoufeng Lan

Shoufeng Lan
PhD Student
s(dot)lan(at)gatech(dot)edu

Shoufeng received his MS in Optical Science and Engineering from the University of New Mexico and his PhD in ECE from Georgia Tech. . He went on to a post-doc with Xiang Zhang at UC Berkeley. He is currently workinga as an assistant professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Shengxiang Wang

Shengxiang Wang
Visiting Scholar
swang629(at)gatech(dot)edu

Dr. Wang was a visiting scholar from Wuhan Textile University. He received his PhD from Wuhan University in materials physics and chemistry. He is working on optical metamaterials.

Jiahao Yan

Jiahao Yan
Visiting PhD Student
jyan303(at)gatech(dot)edu

Jiahao received his BS degree from Sun Yat-sen University in China. He is currently a PhD student in Sun Yat-sen University and is coming to Georgia Tech as a visiting student for one year.

Muliang Zhu

Muliang Zhu
PhD Student
muliang.zhu(at)gatech(dot)edu

Muliang received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics from the University of Science & Technology of China and M.S. in ECE from Georgia Tech. He completed his PhD in ECE from Georgia Tech.