ABOUT ME

Hi, I’m Kangyu.

I use light and machine learning to understand materials.

My background is in computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP). These days, I bring those tools into the lab, combining them with advanced optical characterization to study materials and optoelectronic devices.

I’m especially interested in experiments where data are scarce, signals are weak, or the important changes happen too quickly to capture. How can we get more reliable information from these measurements? And what can they tell us about how a material works?

My work ranges from self-supervised imaging and high-throughput spectroscopy to interpretable machine learning and language-model-guided experiments. The common thread is using better measurements and better analysis to explore materials and uncover useful scientific relationships.

I studied materials science at Imperial College London, followed by an MPhil and PhD at the University of Cambridge. I have since worked as a postdoctoral researcher at MIT and Purdue University.