Research

Research overview

Crafting waves into devices, systems, and physical intelligence.

Exploded view of a metasurface-integrated ultrasonic directional-audio system

Device-Level Integration of Metamaterials

Co-designing metasurfaces and ultrasonic transducers for compact, highly directional sound.

Directional Audio
Parametric Arrays
Device Integration

Representative work Nature Communications 2026 · Metamaterials-integrated ultrasonic transducers

Metasurface-driven loop-diffractive neural network for ultrasonic fingerprint identification

Physical AI & Wave Computing

Embedding sensing and inference directly into wave propagation using metasurfaces.

Physical AI
Diffractive Neural Network
Wave-Domain Inference

Representative work Nature Sensors 2026 · All-wave ultrasonic fingerprint identification

Locally resonant underwater acoustic lens and its focusing response

Architected Metamaterials & Sensing

Engineering architected materials for compact acoustic sensing and underwater wave control.

Acoustic Metalenses
Wide-Angle Sensing
Underwater Metamaterials

Representative work Nature Communications 2024 · Wide field-of-hearing metalens Journal of Sound and Vibration 2026 · Broadband underwater sound focusing

Experimental nonlinear phononic crystal measured with a laser Doppler vibrometer

Nonlinear Wave Physics

Discovering unconventional wave phenomena in engineered elastic media.

Elastic Metamaterials
Bandgap Engineering
Vibration Control

Representative work Physical Review Letters 2025 · Bidirectional asymmetric frequency conversion

Research mission

How can architected materials and engineered structures translate wave physics into real-world technologies?

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