Tao Li Email & Phone Number

Currently a 4th-year ECE Ph.D. student at Rice University.4+ years of experience in designing, fabricating, and testing nanophotonic and integrated photonic devices based on wide/ultra-wide bandgap (WBG/UWBG) semiconductors. 2+ years of experience in designing and modeling metasurfaces-based devices such as metalens and meta-holography. Areas of expertise include:• optical simulation and modeling, including finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), plane-wave/guided-mode expansion (PWE, GME), finite-element method (FEM), and optical inverse design (Python-based). • optical system design, construction, and automation, including confocal microscopy, PL/TRPL spectroscopy, polarization-resolved spectroscopy, ultrafast laser system, Z-scan nonlinear characterization, fiber optical system, etc.• nanofabrication in cleanrooms, including lithography, thin-film deposition, wet/dry etching, lift-off, annealing, etc. • optical/material metrology methods, including profilometry, AFM, SEM, ellipsometry, etc.