Mingkun Chen

Research Assistant at Stanford Jonathan Fan Group

Stanford, California, United States

About

Mingkun Chen is a PhD candidate majoring in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Computer Science at Stanford University with research interest and experience in inverse design in photonics and machine learning in applied physics.

Experience

  • Research Assistant at Jonathan Fan Group
    Aug 2018 - Present · 8 yrs

    Supervised by Dr. Jonathan A. Fan • Physics-Augmented Deep Learning for Electromagnetic Simulations and Optimizations • Reparameterization to Enforce Fabrication Constraints for Nanophotonic Devices • Anti-Reflection Coated Metasurfaces Design Based on Generative Neural Networks (with Sony) • Broadband Metasurfaces Design with Topology Optimization (with Physical Sciences Inc.)

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Povinelli Nanophotonics Laboratory
    May 2016 - Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    Supervised by Dr. Michelle L. Povinelli Cooperating with Northrop Grumman NEXT Nanophotonics & Plasmonics Laboratory to develop thermal controlling microstructure with phase-change materials

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at USC Pulsed Power Research Group
    Feb 2015 - May 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Supervised by Dr. Martin A. Gunderson Nanosecond pulsed power generation, transient plasma