Principle Investigator
Siyuan Dai
McWane Associate Professor
Email: sdai@auburn.edu
Siyuan Dai is an Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Auburn University. 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.
Current Members
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 fabrication.
Ugur Karadeniz
Email: uzk0007@auburn.edu
Research focus: Nano-Optics and Emerging materials fabrication.
Md Ashikul Alam Ashik
Email: maa0160@auburn.edu
Research focus: Nano-Optics simulation and Emerging materials fabrication.
Sean Whitley
Email: sew0121@auburn.edu
Research focus: Scanning probe fabrication and manipulation of emerging materials.
Alumni
Jialiang Shen
Ph.D. student
Senior Engineer at Lumentum.
Kailin Feng
Undergraduate student
Ph.D. student at University of California, San Diego.
Jeb Buchner
Undergraduate student
Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University.
Nick Alexander
Undergraduate student
Materials Engineer at ES3.
Xiaojie Jiang
Visiting PhD student
Postdoc Fellow at Huazhong University of Science & Technology.
Chun-Fu Liu
Master student