Nicholas X Fang

1993–1996 B.S., Physics, Nanjing University
1996-1998 M.S., Physics, Nanjing University
2000–2004 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, UCLA

2004-2010, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
2005-2010, Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;
2009-2010, Affiliate Faculty, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL;
2011-2018, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT;
2014-now, Co-Editor in Chief, Frontiers in Optics and Photonics;
2016-now, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist (consultant), Boston Micro Fabrication Company;
2017-2018, Visiting Professor(sabbatical), Southern University of Science and Technology, China;
2018-2022, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT;
Project coordinator and Principal Investigator of multiple international collaborative projects and industrial sponsored research project, including HKUST-MIT Consortium project (2017-2019)
2022- now, Global STEM Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong
2023- present: Codirector, Central User Facilities, University of Hong Kong

The research efforts at Professor Fang’s group concentrate on focusing photon and sound into sub-wavelength scales. While the main efforts focus on new insights of design for advanced manufacturing of wave functional material and devices, his group also actively pursue the applications in the areas of energy conversion, communication, and biomedical imaging. His research also leads to over 16 patent applications on nano- and micro-fabrication, additive manufacturing, and imaging technologies with successful technology transfer to industry (e.g. Osram, BASF, Nissan) and startups.

1. E Dong, P Cao, J Zhang, S Zhang, NX Fang, Y Zhang, Underwater acoustic metamaterials, National Science Review 10 (6), nwac246, 2023

2. D Kundaliya, X Li, M Anc, N Fang, Methods, apparatuses, and materials for producing micro-pixelated leds using additive manufacturing, US Patent App. 17/623,795, 2022

3. N Fang, J Handler, S Kim, Systems, devices, and methods for kaleidoscopic 3d printing, US Patent, App. 17/299,517, 2022

4. N. FANG, J. D. CAMPBELL, S. G. MOSANENZADEH, J. SPEROS, S. R. GEORGE, K. R. NICHOLAS, A LAYERED LIQUID APPLIED SOUND DAMPER, WO 2022/040382 A1, 2022

5. N Viard, N Fang, Subwavelength acoustic metamaterial with tunable acoustic absorption, US Patent 11,037,543, 2021

6. J Carbajo, S Ghaffari Mosanenzadeh, S Kim, NX Fang “Sound absorption of acoustic resonators with oblique perforations”, Applied Physics Letters 116 (5), 054101 (2020)

7. C Ma, S Kim, NX Fang, “Far-field acoustic subwavelength imaging and edge detection based on spatial filtering and wave vector conversion”, Nature Communications 10, 204(2019)

Full publication list link:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PcoqNjgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

NUSS Distinguished Visiting Professorship, National University of Singapore (2023); Fellow of Optical Society of America (2021);

PRISM Award (2021);

Top 10 Emerging breakthrough technologies of the year (2015);

the ASME Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2013)

the International Commission of Optics (ICO) Prize/Ernest Abbe Medal from the International Commission of Optics (2011);

the NSF CAREER Award (2009);

the Society of Manufacturing Engineering Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2009);

Technology Review Magazine’s 35 Young Innovators Award (2008),

and the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award(2006)