Shanhui Fan

Shanhui Fan
范汕洄
Born1972 (age 5253)
Zhengzhou, China
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Science and Technology of China
Known fordaytime radiative cooling, photonics, solar cells
AwardsVannevar Bush Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsNanophotonics, Photonic Crystals, Metamaterials, Topological physics, Plasmonics, Solar Cells
Doctoral advisorJohn D. Joannopoulos (MIT)

Shanhui Fan (Chinese: 范汕洄; born 1972) is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and physicist, with a focus on theoretical, computational and numerical aspects of photonics and electromagnetism. He is a professor of electrical engineering, and a professor of applied physics (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is the director of the Edward L. Ginzton Lab and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.