Andrea Alu
Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative
Graduate Center Distinguished Professor, Einstein Professor
Areas of Expertise/Research
- Photonics
- Physics and Electrical Engineering
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Andrea Alu
Education
Ph.D.: University of Roma Tre (Italy), Engineering of Biomedical Electronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications, 2007
M.S.: University of Roma Tre (Italy), Environmental Economics and Engineering, 2004
Laurea: University of Roma Tre (Italy), Electronics Engineering, 2001
Career
2018-now: Founding Director, Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York
2018-now: Einstein Professor, Physics Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York
2018-now: Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York
2018-now: Adjunct Professor, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA
2014-now: Chief Technology Officer, Silicon Audio RF Circulator, Austin, TX, USA
2016-2018: Full Professor, Temple Foundation Endowed Professor #3, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA
2016: Associate Professor, Cockrell Family Dean鈥檚 Chair in Engineering Excellence Fellow, UT Austin
2015: KNAW Visiting Professor at AMOLF, The Netherlands
2013-2015: AssociateProfessor, David & Doris Lybarger Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering,Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, USA
2009-2012: Assistant Professor, UT Austin
2007-2008: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
2006-2007: Adjunct Professor of Electromagnetic Field Theory, University of Roma Tre
2003-2007: PhD Student, University of Roma Tre
2002-2006: Visiting Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania
Service and Professional Leadership
Technical Program Committee Chair for 2016 IEEE International AP-S Symposium
Technical Program Committee Chair for Metamaterials 2014, Copenhaghen, Denmark
Technical Program Committee Chair for Metamaterials 2013, Bordeaux, France
Technical Program Committee and Steering Committee member in over 30 international conferences.
President of the Metamorphose Virtual InstituteIEEE Central Texas Joint AP-S / MTT-S Chapter Chair (since 2011)
IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer (since 2014)
APS Outstanding Referee (since 2013)
OSA Traveling Lecturer (since 2010)
Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters (since 2019)
Editorial Board member of New Journal of Physics (since 2016)
Editorial Board member of Physical Review B (since 2014)
Editorial Board member of Advanced Optical Materials (since 2013)
Associate editor of Optics Express (since 2011)
Associate editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (since 2009)
Associate editor of Nanophotonics (since 2012)
Editorial Board member of Scientific Reports (2013-2016)
Associate editor of Metamaterials (2011-2013)
Associate editor of Advanced Electromagnetics (2011-2014)
Guest editor of special issues in: Journal of the Optical Society of America B (2015); Sensors (2010), Optics Communications (2011), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2012), Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications (2012)
Session organizer in over 30 international conferences
Plenary (>10), keynote, invited talks (>70) at conferences and tutorials
Lectures and seminars in several universities, conferences, short courses and PhD schools (>80)
Member of the IEEE AP-S Committee on New Technology Directions
Member of the IEEE AP-S Awards Committee
Member of the URSI-USNC Booker Committee
Fellow of AAASFellow of National Academy of Inventors
Vannevar Bush Faculty
Fellow (DoD)
Fellow of IEEE (AP-S, MTT-S)
Fellow of MRS
Fellow of OSA
Fellow of APS
Fellow of SPIE
Full member of URSI
Publications
S. Kendall, C. R. de Galarreta, J. Shields, J. Bertolotti, G. Yang, M. Wang, A. Al霉, H. Bhaskaran, and C. D. Wright, 鈥Dynamically Reconfigurable 2D Polarization-Agnostic Image Edge-Detection Using Nonvolatile Phase-Change Metasurfaces Optics Express, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 8971-8982, February 21, 2025. ()
H. Zhu, J. Wang, A. Al霉, and L. Chen, 鈥淧olarization-Controlled Chiral Transport,鈥滾ight: Science and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 77 (9 pages), February 10, 2025. (, )
H. Lee, L. Chang, A Kecebas, D. Mao, Y. Xiao, T. Li, A. Al霉, S. K. 脰zdemir, and T. Gu, 鈥Chiral Exceptional Point Enhanced Active Tuning and Nonreciprocity in Micro- Resonators,鈥滾ight: Science and Applications, Vol. 14, No. 45 (10 pages), January 9, 2025. (, )
L. Stefanini, D. Ramaccia, M. Barbuto, M. Longhi, A. Monti, S. Vellucci, A. Toscano, A. Al霉, V. Galdi, and F. Bilotti, 鈥Time-Varying Metasurfaces for Efficient Surface-Wave Coupling to Radiation and Frequency Conversion,鈥 Laser and Photonics Reviews, Vol. 18, No. 12, 2400315 (9 pages), December 2024 (published online on August 10, 2024). ()
Al霉, 鈥Structured Light Meets Integrated Photonics,鈥漃hotonics Insights, Vol. 4, No. 1, C01 (2 pages), December 2024 (published online on December 5, 2024), (invited paper). (web)
Nagulu, A. Mekkawy, M. Tymchenko, D. Sounas, H. Krishaswamy, and A. Al霉, 鈥Magnet-Free Non-Reciprocity,鈥 Physical Review Applied, Vol. 22, No. 6, 064020 (13 pages), December 5, 2024. ()
Q. Guo, Y. K. Wu, D. Zhang, A. Al霉, X. F. Ren, C. W. Qiu, 鈥Polarization Entanglement Enabled by Orthogonally Stacked van der Waals NbOCl2 Crystals,鈥 Nature Communications, Vol. 15, No. 10461 (9 pages), December 2, 2024. (, )
J. Fang, R. Chen, D. Sharp, E. M. Renzi, A. Manna, A. Kala, S. A. Mann, K. Yao, C. Munley, H. Rarick, A. Tang, S. Pumulo, Y. Zheng, V. M. Menon, A. Al霉, and A. Majumdar, 鈥淢illion-Q Free Space Meta-Optical Resonator at Near-Visible Wavelengths,鈥漀ature Communications, Vol. 15, No. 10341 (11 pages), November 28, 2024. (, )
F. Xie, W. Jin, J. R. Nolen, H. Pan, N. Yi, Y. An, Z. Zhang, X. Kong, F. Zhu, K. Jiang, S. Tian, T. Liu, X. Sun, L. Li, D. Li, Y. F. Xiao, A. Al霉, S. Fan, and W. Li, 鈥Subambient Daytime Radiative Cooling of Vertical Surfaces,鈥 Science, Vol. 386, No. 6723, pp. 789-794, November 14, 2024. () [, ]
P. Abdipour, A. N. Askarpour, and A. Al霉, 鈥Equivalent Constitutive Parameters for Stacks of Metasurfaces at Arbitrary Incident Angles,鈥漃hysical Review B, Vol. 110, No. 17, 174201 (16 pages), November 12, 2024. ()
H. Kwon, G. D鈥橝guanno, and A. Al霉, 鈥Optically Transparent, Broadband and Omnidirectional Microwave Absorber Based on Graphene-SiO2 Metasurfaces,鈥 Optics Express Vol. 32, No. 23, pp. 41974-41983, November 1, 2024. ()
J. R. Nolen, A. C. Overvig, M. Cotrufo, and A. Al霉, 鈥Local Control of Polarization and Geometric Phase in Thermal Metasurfaces,鈥 Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, No. 11, pp. 1627-1634, November 2024. (, ) [, , , , ]
K. Wang, S. Zhao, C. Shen, L. Shi, H. Zou, J. Lu, and A. Al霉, 鈥Breaking the Causality Limit for Broadband Acoustic Absorption Using a Noncausal Active Absorber,鈥 Device, Vol. 2, No. 10, 100502 (10 pages), October 18, 2024 (published online on August 9, 2024). ()
Z. Chen, H. He, H. Li, M. Li, J. J. Kou, Y. Q. Lu, J. Xu, and A, Al霉, 鈥Observation of Parity-Time Symmetry for Evanescent Waves,鈥 Communications Physics, Vol. 7, No. 339 (8 pages), October 16, 2024. ()
Y. Radi, N. Nefedkin, P. Popovski, and A. Al霉, 鈥Nonlinear, Active, and Time-Varying Metasurfaces for Wireless Communications: A Perspective and Opportunities,鈥 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 52-62, October 2024 (published online on May 8, 2024). ()
W. Li, J. Qi, and A. Al霉, 鈥Single-Pixel Super-Resolution with a Space-Time Modulated Computational Metasurface Imager,鈥 Photonics Research, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 2311-2322, October 1, 2024 (published online on July 12, 2024). ()
M. Cotrufo, S. Esfahani, D. Korobkin, A. Al霉, 鈥Temporal Signal Processing with Nonlocal Optical Metasurfaces,鈥 npj Nanophotonics, Vol. 1, No. 39 (9 pages), October 1, 2024. (, )
K. Chen-Hu, R. J. Williams, A. Al霉, and P. Popovski, 鈥Frequency Shifter-RIS Assisted Standalone Mm-Wave Cellular Networks,鈥 IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 11799-11813, September 2024 (published online on April 11, 2024). ()
C. Trovatello, A. Marini, M. Cotrufo, A. Al霉, P. J. Schuck, and G. Cerullo, 鈥Tunable Optical Nonlinearities in Layered Materials,鈥 ACS Photonics, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 2860-2873, August 21, 2024 (published online on July 25, 2024), (invited paper). ()
C. Forestiere, G. Miano, and A. Al霉, 鈥First-Principles Nanocircuit Model of Open Electromagnetic Resonators,鈥 Physical Review Applied, Vol. 22, No. 3, 034014 (20 pages), September 5, 2024. ()
S. Esfahani, M. Cotrufo, and A. Al霉, 鈥Tailoring Space-Time Nonlocality for Event-Based Image Processing Metasurfaces,鈥 Physical Review Letters, Vol. 133, No. 6, 063801 (7 pages), August 7, 2024. (, )
A. Al霉, and A. Salandrino, 鈥2023 Optical Materials Express Emerging Researcher Best Paper Prize: Editorial,鈥 Optical Materials Express, Vol. 14, No. 8, pp. 2112-2113, August 1, 2024. ()
H. Goh, A. Krasnok, and A. Al霉, 鈥Nonreciprocal Scattering and Unidirectional Cloaking in Nonlinear Nanoantennas,鈥 Nanophotonics, Special Issue on Nonlinear Nanophotonics, Vol. 13, No. 18, pp. 3347-3353, August 2024 (published online on July 29, 2024), (invited paper). ()