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Congratulations to Yang Deng for Passing Milestone Examination

Congratulations Yang for passing the qualifying examination, the first milestone examination, in the Ph.D. program! 

Padilla Student Awarded HSF Scholarship

Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for being selected to receive a scholarship from the Hispanic Scholarship Fund! 

Ph.D. Candidate - Natalie Rozman

Congratulation to Natalie Rozman for successfully completing the preliminary examination and becoming a Ph.D. candidate!

Triangle Hard Matter Workshop 2020 Poster Session

Congratulations to Yang Deng, Nico Lozada-Smith and Natalie Rozman for presenting their posters at the virtual Triangle Hard Matter Workshop. Yang Deng won first place for the bst graduate student poster! Yang Deng presented a poster titled "Deep...

Incoming Ph.D Student

The Padilla lab just gained another excellent research scientist, Yang Deng! He recently received his M.S. from Duke Unviersity and plans on harnessing the power of machine learning to design unique metamaterials.

Padilla Student Awarded SPIE Scholarship

Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for being selected to receive the 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. To learn more, check out the following website: https://spie.org/membership/student-services/scholarships/winners/2020-…-...

FIP 2020 Poster Session

Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for winning 2nd place in Duke University's Fitzpatrick Institute of Photonic's Symposium Poster session. Her poster was titled "High-Quality Factor THz Metamaterial". To see all poster images and abstracts please visit: ...

Congratulations to Yang Deng

Yang Deng recently defended his masters thesis, congratulations!

Machine Learning Finds New Metamaterial Designs for Energy Harvesting

The Pratt School of Engineering recently covered our latest publication, Deep Learning for Accelerated All-Dielectric Metasurface Design! Check it out here.     

ITQW 2019 Poster Session

Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for presenting her poster "High-Quality Factor Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Modes for THz Biosensing" at the Infrared, Terahertz, and Quantum Workshop this month!   ITQW 2019 Poster Session

Congratulations to Dr. Nadell

Congratulations to Christian Nadell for defending his thesis today. 

Farewell Dr. Caira

 Congratulations to Dr. Caira for graduating today. Dr. Caira recently accepted a postdoctoral research associate position at UNC where he will work on advanced optical imaging systems for neuroscience applications.

Congratulations to Dr. Caira

Congratulations to Nicholas Caira for defending his thesis today.     

Dielectric Metamaterial is Dynamically Tuned by Light

  Learn more about the Dielectric Metamaterial is Dynamically Tuned by Light! “These materials are made up of a grid of separate units that can be individually tuned,” said Willie Padilla, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. “As a...

Sloan Scholar: Natalie Rozman

   Congratulations to Natalie Rozman for being awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Scholarship.