Dr. Wenshan Cai

Biography

Wenshan Cai is a full professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, with a joint appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. After joining Georgia Tech in 2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2008. His research focuses on nanophotonic materials and devices, making significant contributions to the evolving fields of plasmonics and metamaterials. Currently, his research interests include optical metamaterials and metasurfaces, plasmonic nanodevices, photonic design with artificial intelligence, optical imaging, nonlinear optics, ultrafast phenomena, integrated photonics, and photovoltaics. Dr. Cai has published approximately 70 journal articles, amassing around 20,000 citations, and authored the book 'Optical Metamaterials: Fundamentals and Applications,' which is a major reference in the field.

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