Name: Liu Li
Title: Pre-appointed Associate Professor
Email: liliu@zzu.edu.cn
Office: Room 202, Bldg. 23, ZZU South Campus
I. Personal Profile
Liu Li is a Pre-appointed Associate Professor at the School of Physics, Zhengzhou University. He was born in March 1998 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. He received his B.Sc. from Nankai University in 2020 and Ph.D. from the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, in 2025. He joined the School of Physics, Zhengzhou University, in September 2025. As first author or co-first author, he has published 6 papers in National Science Review, Science Advances, Laser & Photonics Reviews, and other journals.
II. Research Interests
1.Metasurface phase imaging;
2.Diamond metasurfaces;
3.Neural networks and computational imaging;
III. Education and Professional Experience
2016–2020 B.Sc., Boling Class, School of Physics, Nankai University
2020–2025 Ph.D., Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University
2025–Present Pre-appointed Associate Professor, School of Physics, Zhengzhou University
IV. Research Projects
1.Zhongyuan Young Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Program, Jul. 2026-Jul. 2028, Principal Investigator, Ongoing
V. Selected Recent Publications (# co-first author; * corresponding author)
1.Li L#, Liao M#, Zhang Y#, Zeng Z, Wang S, Jia W, Zhang J, Zhang B, Dong Y, Zhang D, Zhang F*, Yang YM*. Monocular complex amplitude imaging via a polarization-multiplexed liquid-crystal-lens-informed Fourier neural network.National Science Review. 13(2):nwaf561, 2026.
2.Li L#, Wang S#, Zhao F, Zhang Y, Wen S, Chai H, Gao Y, Wang W, Cao L, Yang YM*. Single-shot deterministic complex amplitude imaging with a single-layer metalens.Science Advances. 10(1):eadl0501, 2024.
3.Li L, Nieminen A, Dou WJ, Zhu YY, Caglayan H*, Ni PN*, Shan CX*. Diamond Metalens Enabled Robust Imaging Across Broad Temperature Range.Laser & Photonics Reviews. e71033, 2026.
4.Li L, Jia W, Jin C, Wang S, Shen Z, Yang YM*. Single-shot wavefront sensing with nonlocal thin film optical filters.Laser & Photonics Reviews. 17(12):2300426, 2023.
5.Wang SR#,Li L#, Bi YG, Zhang XL, Yang YM*, Feng J*, Sun HB*. Polarized and Directional Electroluminescence from Organic Light-Emitting Devices by Using a Bifunctional Meta-Electrode.Laser & Photonics Reviews. 19(2):2400393, 2025.
6.Wang SR#,Li L#, Zhang XL, Bi YG, Yang YM*, Feng J*. Linearly polarized light emission in organic light-emitting devices with an elliptical nanopillar array meta-electrode.Optics Letters. 50(17):5510-3, 2025.
7.Wang S,Li L, Wen S, Liang R, Liu Y, Zhao F, Yang YM*. Metalens for accelerated optoelectronic edge detection under ambient illumination.Nano Letters. 24(1):356-61, 2023.
8.Jia W, Gao C, Zhao Y,Li L, Wen S, Wang S, Bao C, Jiang C*, Yang C, Yang YM*. Intracavity spatiotemporal metasurfaces.Advanced Photonics. 5(2):026002, 2023.
9.Jia W, Saerens G, Talts ÜL, Weigand H, Chapman RJ,Li L, Grange R*, Yang YM*. Polarization-entangled Bell state generation from an epsilon-near-zero metasurface.Science Advances. 11(8):eads3576, 2025.
10.Liang R, Wang S, Dong Y,Li L, Kuang Y, Zhang B, Yang YM*. Metasurface-generated large and arbitrary analog convolution kernels for accelerated machine vision.ACS Photonics. 11(12):5430-8, 2024.
11.Hu F,Li L, Liu Y, Meng Y, Gong M, Yang YM*. Two-plasmon spontaneous emission from a nonlocal epsilon-near-zero material.Communications Physics. 4(1):84, 2021.
12.Martinez-Becerril AC, Luo S,Li L, Pagé JT, Giner L, Abrahao RA, Lundeen JS*. Reconfigurable unitary transformations of optical beam arrays.Optics Express. 32(23):41111-26, 2024.
