Profiles

Ying Wu is an Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (AMCS) and the principal investigator of the Waves in Complex Media Research Group.

Professor Wu obtained her Ph.D. in Physics in 2008 from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), which was followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship. She received her B.S. in Physics from Nanjing University, China, in 2002.

Wu is a dedicated physicist who studies electromagnetic, acoustic and elastic waves. Her work has advanced theoretical and design knowledge of metamaterials, photonic and phononic crystals and waves in random media.

Among Professor Wu’s research interests are computational physics with a focus on wave propagation in heterogeneous media, electromagnetic, acoustic and elastic metamaterials, effective medium theory, transport theory and time-reversal imaging. Furthermore, she implements fast algorithms for solving large-scale, classical wave propagation problems.

Mohamed Farhat is currently a Research Scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. 

Dr. Mohamed Farhat received his Ph.D. in Optics and Electromagnetism from Aix-Marseille University where he obtained as well his Master degree in Theoretical Physics. His PhD dissertation was titled by “Metamaterials for Harmonic and Biharmonic Cloaking and Superlensing.” He has authored over 100 publications, including 1 edited book, 98 journal papers, 7 book chapters, and 5 international patents, as well as over 90 conference papers, with over 5100 citations, as of November 2023. He has organized several special sessions at the Meta conferences, and is active reviewer for many international journals in Physics including Physical Review Letters and Nature Physics. He has co-edited the book “Transformation Wave Physics: Electromagnetics, Elastodynamics and Thermodynamics” at Pan Stanford Publishing. 

His research is in the fields of plasmonics and metamaterials with applications spanning optical and acoustical waves.