14/10/2025
Sabancı University is hosting Dr. Koray Aydın from Northwestern University for a special seminar on October 24th.
In the special seminar, which will take place at the Sabancı University Tuzla Campus on Friday, October 24, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., Dr. Koray Aydın, a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University, will present "Engineering Nanophotonic Materials for Imaging, Optical Computing, and Quantum Technologies", explaining the role of nanophotonic materials in future quantum technologies and optical computing.
Next-Generation Optical Devices
This special seminar at FENS G032 will highlight the importance of controlling the interaction of light with matter in modern science and technology. Dr. Koray Aydın will present his research on next-generation nanophotonic materials, which direct light at the atomic and molecular scale.
A wide range of application areas will be discussed, ranging from nanoparticle lattices assembled with DNA to hybrid platforms containing quantum dots, from real-time optical computing and imaging systems to quantum technologies. He will also discuss how artificial intelligence and machine learning are converging with nanophotonic structures and shaping the next generation of optical devices.
Dr. Koray Aydın
Dr. Koray Aydın is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Applied Physics Graduate Program, directing the Metamaterials and Nanophotonic Devices Laboratory. He received his bachelor's and doctoral degrees in Physics from Bilkent University in 2002 and 2008, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. Harry Atwater at the California Institute of Technology from 2008 to 2010, and as a research scientist from 2010 to 2011. His research interests span several cross-cutting areas within nanophotonics, including metamaterials and metadevices, plasmonics, inverse design and machine learning-assisted nanophotonic design, 2D materials, phase change materials, DNA-fused and 3D-printed nanophotonic materials. Dr. Aydın was awarded the prestigious 2017 ONR Young Researcher Program Award. In 2019, he was selected as Türkiye's Most Outstanding Young Person in the field of scientific and technological development. His work integrates physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering, with applications ranging from imaging and computing to quantum information.
