Wei Bao

Dr. Wei Bao received his B.S. in physics (minor in chemistry) at Peking University, and his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, he did his postdoc at UC Berkeley's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center until 2019. Dr. Bao's current research interests broadly on optical materials and photonics. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2022, Army Research Office Early Career Program Award in 2024, and the Rising Star of Light 2022 Award from the Nature Portfolio journal, Light: Science and Application.

11. Kai Peng†, Wei Li†, Meng Sun†, Jose Rivero, Chaoyang Ti, Xu Han, Li Ge, Lan Yang, Xiang Zhang*, Wei Bao*. "Topological valley Hall polariton condensation" Nature Nanotechnology 19, 1283–1289 (2024). Cover of the issue 12. Lei Tong†, Yali Bi†, Yilun Wang†, Kai Peng, Xinyu Huang, Wei Ju, Zhuiri Peng, Zheng Li, Langlang Xu, Runfeng Lin, Xiangxiang Yu, Wenhao Shi, Hui Yu, Huajun Sun, Kanhao Xue, Qiang He, Ming Tang, Jianbin Xu, Xinliang Zhang, Jinshui Miao, Deep Jariwala, Wei Bao*, Xiangshui Miao*, Ping Wang*, Lei Ye*. "Programmable nonlinear optical neuromorphic computing with bare 2D material MoS2" Nature Communications 15, 10290 (2024) 13. Yilin Meng†, Wei Li†, Kai Peng†, Chaoyang Ti†, Jianchen Dang†, Xiaolong Wu, Xu Han, and Wei Bao*. "Hybrid perovskite–nanograting photonic architectur