Prof. Hao Jia graduated from the Physics College of University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree in applied physics. Afterwards, he went straight to the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences and received his Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics. In 2018, he entered the School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University. His research focus is on Nanophotonics and includes the investigation of novel phenomena, as well as the development of novel devices and applications. He won the Chinese Academy of Sciences Dean's Excellence Award in 2017 and 2018, and won the excellent doctoral thesis of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 40 academic papers in international famous optical journals and international conferences such as ACS Photonics, Optica, Optics Letters, Optics Express, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, etc.

Current main research interests: 1. Intelligent Photonics - including the cross-application of intelligent photon computing chips (optical computing processors) and deep learning algorithms in photon design, optical material design, spectral analysis, imaging, and other systems. 2. Photonics Reverse Design and Light Field Control - utilizing algorithms for metasurface devices for high-density integration and their related applications. 3. Topological Photonics - research on topological physical systems based on on-chip integrated optics and topological circuit systems based on analog circuits, focusing on condensed matter physics and topological systems. 4. Integrated Optoelectronic Chips - research on high-speed, high-capacity chip-to-chip and on-chip optical interconnect and optical switching technologies for data centers and 5G communications, including on-chip optical interconnect network architecture, optical routers, optical modulators, and multiplexers/demultiplexers. Photonics is an interdisciplinary field spanning fundamental and applied research. The goal is to ultimately serve practical applications.

Graduate course: Integrated optoelectroic devices. Undergraduate course: Optics.

Some recent papers ( More is available on google scholar )： 1. Qike Sun, Haoxiang Chen, Junqing Wang, Jianhong Yang, Hao Jia *, “Broadband mode-division (de)multiplexer using nanorod-assisted multimode subwavelength gratings,” Optics Communications, 130037, 2024. 2. Haoxiang Chen, Qike Sun, Junqing Wang, Jianhong Yang, Hao Jia∗, “Flexible transmission control of mode conversion in a TiO2 cladding silicon subwavelength waveguide by engineering inter-waveguide mode coupling,” Optics and Laser Technology, 109577, 2023. 3. Hao Jia*, Haoxiang Chen, Tao Wang, and Jianghong Yang, “Reconfigurable Guided‐Mode Conversion Using Cladding Medium Switching Strategy in Subwavelength Grating Waveguide,” Annalen der Physik, 2200161, 2022. 4. Lin Zheng, Zhizai Li, Xufeng Zhou, Hong Zhang, Qian Wang, Hao Jia* and Zhiwen Jin*，“Arrays of spherical nanostructured oxide particles for photon management enhancement in photovoltaic devices,” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10(36), 2022. 5. Haoxiang Chen, Hao Jia*, Tao Wang, and Jianhong Yang, “A Gradient-oriented Binary Search Method for Photonic Device Design,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021. 6. Hao Jia,* Shanglin Yang, Ting Zhou, Lei Zhang,* Tao Wang, Haoxiang Chen, Jianhong Yang, and Lin Yang*, “Mode-Oriented Permutation Cipher Encryption and Passive Signal Switching Based on Multiobjective Optimized Silicon Subwavelength Metastructures,” ACS Photonics, 7, 2163-2172, 2020. 7. Haoxiang Chen, Hao Jia*, Tao Wang, et al, “Broadband Nonvolatile Tunable Mode-order Converter based on Silicon and Optical Phase Change Materials Hybrid Meta-structure,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, 38(7), 1874-1879, 2020. 8. Hao Jia, Haoxiang Chen, Tao Wang, Huifu Xiao, Guanghui Ren, Arnan Mitchell, Jianhong Yang*, Yonghui Tian*, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 26(2), 832106, 2020. 9. Haoxiang Chen, Hao Jia,∗, Jianhong Yang, Yonghui Tian, Tao Wang, “Ultra-compact switchable mode converter based on silicon and optical phase change material hybrid metastructure”, Optics Communications, 473, 125889, 2020. 10. Tao Wang, Hengquan Guo, Haoxiang Chen, Jianhong Yang, and Hao Jia*, “Ultra-compact reflective mode converter based on a silicon subwavelength structure,” Applied Optics, 59(9), 2754-2758, 2020. 11. Hao Jia, Shanglin Yang, Ting Zhou, Sizhu Shao, Xin Fu, Lei Zhang and Lin Yang*, "WDM-compatible multimode optical switching system-on-chip," Nanophotonics, 8(5): 889-898, 2019. 12. Hao Jia, Xin Fu, Ting Zhou, Lei Zhang, Shanglin Yang and Lin Yang*, “Mode-selective modulation by silicon microring resonators and mode multiplexers for on-chip optical interconnect,” Optics Express, 27(3): 2915-2925, 2019. 13. Hao Jia*, Haoxiang Chen, Jianhong Yang, Huifu Xiao, Wenping Chen, and Yonghui Tian, “Ultra-compact dual-polarization silicon mode-order converter,” Optics Letters, 44(17): 4179-4182, 2019. 14. Hao Jia, Xin Fu, Ting Zhou, Lei Zhang, Yonghui Tian, Shanglin Yang, and Lin Yang*, “Interface of Electrical Data-Bus to Multimode Optical Data-Bus Using Racetrack Microring Resonators,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 31(17), 1397-1400, 2019. 15. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Xin Fu, Jianfeng Ding, and Lin Yang*, “Inverse-design and Demonstration of Ultra-compact Silicon Meta-structure Mode Exchange Device,” ACS Photonics, 5(5): 1833-1838, 2018. 16. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Xin Fu, Jianfeng Ding, Lei Zhang and Lin Yang*, “Integrated five-port non-blocking optical router based on mode-selective property,” Nanophotonics, 7(5): 853-858, 2018. 17. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Yunchou Zhao, Yuhao Xia, Jincheng Dai, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding, Xin Fu and Lin Yang*, “Six-port optical switch for cluster-mesh photonic network-on-chip,” Nanophotonics, 7(5): 827-835, 2018. 18. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Xin Fu, Jianfeng Ding, Lei Zhang, and Lin Yang*, “Four-port mode-selective silicon optical router for on-chip optical interconnect,” Optics Express, 26(8), 9740-9748, 2018. 19. Ting Zhou and Hao Jia*, “Method to optimize optical switch topology for photonic network-on-chip,” Optics Communications, 413, 230-235, 2018. 20. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding, Xin Fu, and Lin Yang*, “Optical switch compatible with wavelength division multiplexing and mode division multiplexing for photonic networks-on-chip,” Optics Express, 25(17), 20698-20707, 2017. 21. Hao Jia, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding, Linchen Zheng, Chen Yuan, and Lin Yang*, “Microring modulator matrix integrated with mode multiplexer and de-multiplexer for on-chip optical interconnect,” Optics Express, 25(1), 422-430, 2017. 22. Hao Jia, Yuhao Xia, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding, Xin Fu, and Lin Yang*, “Four-Port Optical Switch for Fat-Tree Photonic Network-on-Chip,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, 35(15), 3237-3241, 2017. 23. Hao Jia, Yunchou Zhao, Lei Zhang, Qiaoshan Chen, Jianfeng Ding, Xin Fu, and Lin Yang*, “Five-port optical router based on silicon microring optical switches for photonic networks-on-chip”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 28(9), 947-950, 2016. 24. Lin Yang*, Hao Jia, Yunchou Zhao, and Qiaoshan Chen, “Reconfigurable non-blocking 4-port optical router based on microring resonators”, Optics Letters, 40(6), 1129-1132, 2015. 25. Lin Yang*, Ting Zhou, Hao Jia, Shanglin Yang, Jianfeng Ding, Xin Fu and Lei Zhang, “General architectures for on-chip optical space and mode switching”, Optica, 5(2), 180-187, 2018. 26. Ting Zhou, Hao Jia, Jianfeng Ding, Lei Zhang, Xin Fu, and Lin Yang*, “On-chip broadband silicon thermo-optic 2×2 four-mode optical switch for optical space and local mode switching,” Optics Express, 26(7), 8375-8384, 2018. 27. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Shanglin Yang, Xin Fu, Lei Zhang, and Lin Yang*, “Five-port non-blocking silicon optical router based on mode-selective property,” 18th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, 2019. 28. Hao Jia, Shanglin Yang, Xin Fu, Ting Zhou, Lei Zhang, Lin Yang*, “Silicon Mode-selective Modulation Device for On-chip Optical Interconnect”, 16th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2019. 29. Hao Jia, Tingzhou, Xin Fu, Lei Zhang, and Lin Yang*, “Four-port mode-selective optical router for optical interconnect,” Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2018. 30. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Xin Fu, and Lin Yang*, “Ultra-compact on-chip mode exchange device using inverse-designed silicon metasurface”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2018. 31. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding, and Lin Yang*, “WDM-compatible 2×2 Optical Switch for Mode-division Multiplexing on a Silicon Chip”, 14th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2017. 32. Hao Jia, Ting Zhou, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding, and Lin Yang*, “2×2 multimode optical switch for large-capacity on-chip optical interconnect”, 16th International Conference on Optical Communications and Networks, 2017. 33. Hao Jia, Yuhao Xia, Jianfeng Ding, Lei Zhang, Xin Fu, and Lin Yang*, “Four-Port Optical Switch for Photonic Network-on-chip”, CLEO-PR/OECC/PGC, 2017. 34. Hao Jia, Chen Yuan, Lingchen Zheng, Jianfeng Ding, Lei Zhang, Xin Fu, and Lin Yang*, “Microring modulator matrix integrated with mode multiplexer and de-multiplexer for on-chip optical interconnect,” 13th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2016. 35. Hao Jia, Lin Yang*, Yunchou Zhao and Qiaoshan Chen, “Reconfigurable non-blocking 4-port optical router based on microring resonators,” 12th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2015. 36. Hao Jia, Yunchou Zhao, Yuhao Xia, Qiaoshan Chen, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding and Lin Yang*, “Reconfigurable non-blocking 5-port optical router based on microring resonators,” Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2015. 37. Ting Zhou, Lin Yang*, Hao Jia, Shanglin Yang, Jianfeng Ding, Xin Fu, and Lei Zhang, “On-chip 2×2 four-mode global optical mode switch”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2018. 38. Ting Zhou, Hao Jia, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Ding, and Lin Yang*, “A Method to Optimizing Optical Switch Topology for Photonic Network-on-chip”, 14th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, 2017. 39. Lei Zhang, Hao Jia, Jianfeng Ding, and Lin Yang*, “Demonstration of integrated optical matrix-vector multiplier based on two-dimensional silicon microring resonator array,” The 4th Advanced Electromagnetics Symposium, 2016. 40. Yunchou Zhao, Hao Jia, Yuhao Xia, Qiaoshan Chen, Lei Zhang, jianfeng ding, and Lin Yang*, “Reconfigurable nonblocking 5-port silicon thermo-optic optical router based on Mach-Zehnder optical switches,” Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, 2015.

Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China Opened Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics

2019 Excellent Ph. D degree thiese of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2018 Scholarship of President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017 National Scholarship 2017 Scholarship of President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017 Scholarship of Director of Institute of Semiconductors. 2015-2016 Outstanding student of University of Chinese Academy of Science.

The project reviewer of National Natural Science Foundation of China The reviewer of Journals including Photonics Research, Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Journal of Selected Topic of Quantum Electronics, Optics Express, Optics Letter, IEEE Access, Optics Communications, Optical engineering, Applied Optics, Fiber and Integrated Optics, Applied Physics A, Physics Letters A, Results in Physics. Guest editor, Special issue of Applied Sciences.

It is planned to enroll 1 to 3 graduate students every year, and students from physics, optoelectronics and electronic engineering are welcome to apply.