• Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Affiliated Faculty, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering
Shoufeng Lan

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering/Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology — 2017
  • M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering/Physics, University of New Mexico — 2012
  • M.E., Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University — 2009
  • B.S./B.E., Optoelectronic Technology and Science, Nankai/Tianjin University — 2007

Research Interests

    • Mechanics: Light-assisted control, sensing, and manufacturing
    • Materials: Plasmonics, metamaterials, and 2D materials
    • Physics: Nonlinear, quantum, and topological photonics
    • Chemistry: Photon-induced chem/med/bio-synthesis

Awards & Honors

  • James J. Cain '51 Faculty Graduate Teaching Award - 2024
  • NCFDD Faculty Success Fellow - 2023
  • IAC Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award - 2022
  • VEBLEO Fellow - 2021
  • SPIE Community Champion - 2020
  • Sigma Xi Best Ph.D. Thesis Award - 2018
  • SPIE D.J. Lovell Scholarship - 2016
  • National Award for Outstanding Students Abroad - 2015

Selected Publications

  • • X. Ma, K. Kudtarkar, Y. Chen, P. Cunha, Y. Ma, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, X. Qian, M.C. Hipwell, Z.J. Wong, S. Lan, “Coherent momentum control of forbidden excitons,” Nature Communications 13, 6916 (2022)
  • S. Lan, X. Liu, S. Wang, H. Zhu, Y. Liu, C. Gong, S. Yang, J. Shi, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, “Observation of strong excitonic magneto-chiral anisotropy in twisted bilayer van der Waals crystals,” Nature Communications 12, 2088 (2021)
  • S. Rodrigues, S. Lan, L. Kang, Y. Cui, P. Panuski, S. Wang, A. M. Urbas, W. Cai, “Intensity-dependent modulation of optically active signals in a chiral metamaterial,” Nature Communications 8, 14602 (2017)
  • S. Lan, L. Kang, D. T. Schoen, S. Rodrigues, Y. Cui, M. L. Brongersma, W. Cai, “Backward phase-matching for nonlinear optical generation in negative-index materials,” Nature Materials 14, 807-811 (2015)
  • L. Kang, Y. Cui, S. Lan, S. Rodrigues, M. L. Brongersma, W. Cai, “Electrifying photonic metamaterials for tunable nonlinear optics,” Nature Communications 5, 4680 (2014)