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Yongmin Liu
Associate Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical, and Computer Engineering

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New algorithm can discover materials with unusual characteristics—including invisibility

New algorithm can discover materials with unusual characteristics—including invisibility

Professor Yongmin Liu has developed a machine learning algorithm for discovering materials that have desirable qualities like invisibility.
Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak could become reality thanks to a Northeastern professor’s algorithm

Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak could become reality thanks to a Northeastern professor’s algorithm

To design a real invisibility cloak, scientists need a material that allows them to control how light moves along its surface.
Researcher honored for developing cutting-edge technologies to speed up data processing, storage

Researcher honored for developing cutting-edge technologies to speed up data processing, storage

Assistant professor Yongmin Liu won a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award for his work to dramatically increase the speed at which data can be stored on recording media such as hard disk drives in computers.
A new light wave

A new light wave

Assistant professor Yongmin Liu and collaborators at Penn State and M.I.T. have developed the world’s first reconfigurable fluid lens with the capacity to enable ultra-small, ultra-fast devices.