About Me
I am a postdoctoral associate working with Prof. Francesco Monticone in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. Prior to this, I completed my Ph.D. in December 2023 under the supervision of Prof. Gennady Shvets in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. I obtained my bachelor's degree from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU).
Research Interests: AI for science, complex networks, optical metamaterials and metasurfaces, quantum computing
News
- [Jan. 2025] I will present my research on the spatial complexity of optical neural networks and optimization and pruning for space-efficient optics at Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, CA.
Selected Publications
Exploring the role of metamaterials in achieving advantage in optical computing
Yandong Li and Francesco Monticone
Topology-Controlled Photonic Cavity Based on the Near-Conservation of the Valley Degree of Freedom
Yandong Li, Yang Yu, Fengyu Liu, Baile Zhang, and Gennady Shvets
Broadband localization of light at the termination of a topological photonic waveguide
Daniël Muis*, Yandong Li*, René Barczyk, Sonakshi Arora, Gennady Shvets, Laurens Kuipers, and Ewold Verhagen
Deep subwavelength topological edge state in a hyperbolic medium
Lorenzo Orsini, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Yandong Li, Seojoo Lee, Gian Marcello Andolina, Orazio Scarlatella, Matteo Ceccanti, Karuppasamy Soundarapandian, Eli Janzen, James H. Edgar, Gennady Shvets, and Frank H. L. Koppens
Topological Directional Coupler
Yandong Li, Minwoo Jung, Yang Yu, Yuchen Han, Baile Zhang, and Gennady Shvets
Mode-selective single-dipole excitation and controlled routing of guided waves in a multi-mode topological waveguide
Yandong Li, Yang Yu, Kueifu Lai, Yuchen Han, Fei Gao, Baile Zhang, and Gennady Shvets
Applied Physics Letters (Featured on the Cover), 2022 | arXiv
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