L. Jay Guo is the Emmett Leith Collegiate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he joined in 1999 after his PhD and postdoc training. He currently serves as the director of the Macromolecular Science and Engineering program, and holds courtesy appointment in Mechanical Engineering, and Applied Physics. He is a fellow of IEEE and a fellow of Optica. Professor Guo’s lab is involved in interdisciplinary research, with activities ranging from polymer-based photonic devices and sensor applications, flexible transparent conductors, nanophotonics, structural colors and AI assisted design, hybrid photovoltaics and photodetectors, to nanomanufacturing technologies, with contribution of multitude of students from various disciplines. He has graduated 45 PhDs since joining UM. Professor Guo has ~300 journal publications; with citation more than 35,000 times, and an H-index of 94 (by google scholar). He is Editor-in-Chief of Optics and Photonics Research, co-Editor-in-Chief of Micro and Nano Manufacturing, and associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. He serves on the Advisory Board of Advanced Optical Materials and the Editorial Boards of Opto-Electronic Science and Opto-Electronic Technology. He co-founded two startup companies to commercialize technologies from his lab.
