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Mo Li

Professor
Electronic, Photonic, and Integrated Quantum Systems
M246 ECE
Campus Box 352500
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Phone: 206-616-6966
Email: moli96@ece.uw.edu
Research Web Page: Mo Li Group


Biography

Mo Li is a Professor in the UW Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the UW Physics Department. Prior to joining UW in 2018, he was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota since 2010. From 2007 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Caltech in 2007 and a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2001. Dr. Li is the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Photonic Devices at UW. His main research interests include integrated photonics, optoelectronics, optomechanics, and quantum photonics. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and has been granted 6 US patents.

Awards and Honors

  1. Fellow, Optica (formerly OSA), 2021
  2. Guillermo E. Borja Award, University of Minnesota, 2015
  3. NSF CAREER, 2014
  4. McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, 2013
  5. AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2012

Research Projects

  1. Angular Resolved Multi-Spectral Acousto-Optic Transceiver (ARMOR) - a DARPA MTO SOAR Project
  2. Photonic Engine to Accelerate Atomic Quantum Engineering (PEAQUE) - an NSF Convergence Accelerator Project (Phase 2)
  3. A Hybrid Co-processing Unit (HCU) using Phase-change Photonics in CMOS for Large-scale and Ultra-fast Machine Learning Acceleration - an NSF CISE Project
  4. Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM·C) - an NSF MRSEC Center

Recent Publications

  1. Changming Wu, Haoqin Deng, Yi-Siou Huang, Heshan Yu, Ichiro Takeuchi, Carlos A. Ríos Ocampo and Mo Li, "Freeform Direct-write and Rewritable Photonic Integrated Circuits in Phase-Change Thin Films", Science Advances 10, eadk1361 (2024) [link]
  2. Bingzhao Li, Qixuan Lin, and Mo Li, "Frequency-Angular Resolving LiDAR using Chip-scale Acousto-optic Beam Steering", Nature 620, 316 (2023) [link]
  3. Adina Ripin, Ruoming Peng, Xiaowei Zhang, Srivatsa Chakravarthi, Minhao He, Xiaodong Xu, Kai-Mei Fu, Ting Cao, and Mo Li, "Tunable phononic coupling in excitonic quantum emitters", Nature Nanotechnology (2023) [link]
  4. Seokhyeong Lee, Ruoming Peng, Changming Wu, and Mo Li, "Programmable black phosphorus image sensor for broadband optoelectronic edge computing", Nature Communications, 13, 1485 (2022) [Link]
  5. Ruoming Peng, Adina Ripin, Yusen Ye, Jiayi Zhu, Changming Wu, Seokhyeong Lee, Huan Li, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Ting Cao, Xiaodong Xu, Mo Li, "Long-range transport of 2D excitons with acoustic waves", Nature Communications, 13, 1334 (2022) [Link], [Arxiv]
  6. Changming Wu, Xiaoxuan Yang, Heshan Yu, Ruoming Peng, Ichiro Takeuchi,Yiran Chen,Mo Li, "Harnessing Optoelectronic Noises in a Photonic Generative Network", Science Advances 8, eabm2956 (2022) [Link]
  7. Changming Wu, Heshan Yu, Seokhyeong Lee, Ruoming Peng, Ichiro Takeuchi, and Mo Li, "Programmable Phase-change Metasurface for Multimode Photonic Convolutional Neural Network", Nature Communications 12, 96 (2021) [Link]
  8. A. Kimel, Mo Li, "Writing magnetic memory with ultrashort light pulses", Nature Review Materials 4, 189 (2019) [Link]


Full publication list

Google Scholar Page

Students

  1. Bingzhao Li (ECE)
  2. Changming Wu (ECE)
  3. I-Tung Chen (ECE)
  4. Adina Ripin (Physics)
  5. Qixuan Lin (ECE)
  6. Shucheng Fang (ECE)
  7. Haoqin Deng (ECE)
  8. Hannah Boyer (Physics)
  9. Yue Yu (ECE)