Sean has been promoted to Principal Scientist at Toyota Research Institute North America, recognizing his outstanding contributions to optical computing, transparent displays, and metasurface innovations.
Sean will be presenting his latest work on the optimization of optical switches, thermal insulation of integrated photonics, and metasurfaces for photonic processing at the 2025 SPIE Photonics West Conference.
Former members of Professor Wenshan Cai's research group from Georgia Tech gathered in San Francisco for a reunion, sharing updates on their current research and celebrating their continued collaboration in the field of metamaterials and photonics.
Sean was honored with the University of Rochester's Department of Chemical Engineering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award for his continued commitment to fostering an inclusive environment in STEM education and research.
Sean delivered an invited talk at the University of Dayton on optical neural networks for next-generation sensing and computing systems.
Sean's doctoral dissertation on "Chiral Light-Matter Interactions in Engineered Nanostructures" was recognized with the Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award at Georgia Tech.
Sean is one of 5 students that was selected to apply for the Schmidt Science Fellows Program. This global award has reached out to 50 schools internationally to select key candidates to build a research program and network in a field different from their own.
Sean was awarded the ECE Graduate Research Assistant Excellence Award for his outstanding research contributions and service to Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Along with presenting a talk on one of his latest works, the chiral meta-mirror, Sean competed for a Gold or Silver Graduate Student Award at the 2018 MRS Spring Meeting.
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Sean will be presenting "Modulating optically active signals in a chiral metamaterial with varied input intensities" on October 4, 2017 during the 10:30-12:00 session (WG2 / Metamaterials and Plasmonics).
5 students were chosen to meet with Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel over dinner.
The two week workshop held at UIUC is intended to help "build the scientific/engineering base and probe the ethical implications that arise from these complex biological interactions, their resultant emergent behaviors, and the ultimate creation of complex biological systems engineered to perform specific, targeted functions."
The workshop which was funded with an SPIE Cycle Grant was held on the same day as the Atlanta Day of Science and the 5th Annual Latino College and STEM Fair at Georgia Tech. This overlap assured the largest possible contact with as many students from Elementary level to High School students as possible. See Outreach page for more details. Press release can be found here.
The original article was released by Georgia Tech's John Toon. The article was then covered in several websites including: Electronics Weekly, Newswise, Nanowerk, Phys.Org, Technoogy.org, Photonics.com, LaserFocusWorld etc.
Sean's master's thesis on metamaterial applications was recognized with the Sigma Xi Best Master's Thesis Award. Link to Article
Sean was awarded the prestigious Intel Fellowship for his innovative work in nanophotonics and metamaterials. Link to Article