Group Members

Siyuan Dai (Principal Investigator) Siyuan Dai is an associate professor of Materials Science & Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of California, San Diego (2017) and a B.S. degree in Applied Physics from University of Science & Technology of China (2011). In 2018, he was a research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. His research expertise and interests are nano-optics and light-matter interactions in quantum materials and nanostructures. He is the recipient of the 2023 ACS PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award and the 2023 NSF CAREER Award.   Email: sdai@auburn.edu

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	Jialiang Shen (Alabama Graduate Research Scholars Fellow)   Email: jzs0128@auburn.edu Research focus: Nanophotonics, experimental and computation near-field optics.

 

	Byung-Il Noh (Alabama Graduate Research Scholars Fellow)   Email: bzn0023@auburn.edu Research focus: Van der Waals materials fabrication, Nanophotonics.

 

	Md Asadul Islam   Email: mzi0037@auburn.edu Research focus: van der Waals materials and heterostructures fabricaton.

 

	Ugur Karadeniz   Email: uzk0007@auburn.edu Research focus: Nano-Optics and Emerging materials fabricaton.

 

	Sean Whitley   Email: sew0121@auburn.edu Research focus: Scanning probe fabricaton and manipulation of emerging materials.

 

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Alumni

Mingyuan Chen Ph.D. student Current position: Assistant Professor at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.

 

Kailin Feng Undergraduate student Current position: Ph.D. student at University of California, San Diego.

 

Jeb Buchner Undergraduate student Current position: Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University.

 

Nick Alexander Undergraduate student Current position: Materials Engineer at ES3.

 

Xiaojie Jiang Visiting PhD student Current position: Postdoc Fellow at Huazhong University of Science & Technology.

 

Chun-Fu Liu Master student