Tian Gu

Background and Education

Tian Gu is a Principal Investigator and Research Scientist at MIT. His primary research interests involve nano-/micro-optics, integrated photonics, and photonic materials, focusing on the areas of metasurface flat optics, optical phase change materials, photonic interconnection/packaging, on-chip spectroscopy, artificial intelligence, photovoltaics, flexible photonics, etc.  He is the co-Founder of 2Pi and LyteChip, MIT spin-off companies developing advanced optics and photonics technologies.  He received his B.S. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering, and Ph.D. degree from University of Delaware in Electrical and Computer Engineering. 

Awards and Honors

• SPIE Rising Researcher Award
• R&D 100 Award
• TechConnect National Innovation Award
• Nanoelectronics, Electromagnetics, and Photonics Graduate Faculty Award
• Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (top 0.5% worldwide)