Taigao Ma 

I am a 5-th year (final year) Ph.D. student in the physics department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before that, I received my Bachelor's degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2019.

My Ph.D. research focus on using machine learning methods, including reinforcement learning, generative models, foundation models to deal with optical physics problems, including the fast surrogate simulation of photonics structures as welll as their inverse design. My advisor is Prof. L. Jay Guo.

I am looking for a full-time job position on foundation models, large language model, machine learning engineering. Feel free to contact me if you are interested!

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[April-2024] I successfully passed my Ph.D. defense in physics department on April 17th! My defense title is Sequential Learning for Nanophotonic Inverse Design.

[Oct-2023] One paper was accepted by AI4Science Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023 and selected as oral presentation (selection rate: 10/150=6.7%). See you in New Orleans this December!

[Sept-2023] Made a major contribution to an awarded NSF proposal ( intended total amount: $600K).

[July-2023] I will attend the ICML 2023 in Hawaii and give a poster presentation at the Syns & ML Workshop on July 28.

[June-2023] Our paper Environmentally Sustainable and Multifunctional Chrome-like Coatings Having No Chromium Designed with Reinforcement Learning has been published and available on ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.

[June-2023] Our OL-Transformer was accepted by the Syns & ML Workshop @ ICML 2023.

[May-2023] I joined Visa Research as a Ph.D. intern.

[May-2023] We announced OL-Transformer, a fast and universal surrogate model based on transformer that can speed up the simulation of multilayer thin film structures. Check out the arXiv preprint!

[April-2023] We announced OptoGPT, the first foundation model for optical multilayer thin film design. Check out the arXiv preprint!

[Feb-2023] I will be working as a Ph.D. intern in Visa Research this summer!

[Jan-2023] Our survey article has been published on Optical Materials Express!

We introduced eco-friendly chrome-like coatings without chromium using reinforcement learning to design. These multilayer structures are RF transmissive, perfect for RF decorative applications, e.g., auto-mobiles

We developed the OL-transformer to expedite the simulation of transmission and reflection spectra in optical multilayer thin film structures.

We developed OptoGPT, the first foundation model for optical thin film structure inverse design. After being trained on a large dataset of 10 million optical thin film designs, OptoGPT demonstrates remarkable capabilities including: 1) autonomous global design exploration, 2) efficient designs for various tasks, 3) the ability to output diverse designs, and 4) seamless integration of user-defined constraints. We believe OptoGPT is a major leap towards accelerating optical science with foundation models.

A comprehensive survey of the ultrathin metal films for flexible transparent conductor applications. I provided a discussion from optical design consideration and extending transparency to the NIR range.

We provide extensive benchmarking results on accuracy, diversity, robustness for commonly used deep learning models in nanophotonic inverse designs. The findings can help researchers select models that best suit their design problems.

We demonstrate diode-laser based frequency comb generators and used it for dual-comb spectroscopy.

We demonstrate dissipative Kerr soliton generation in a microrod resonator using an auxiliary-laser-assisted thermal response control and realize soliton repetition rate control by applying external stress tuning and a stability level of 3.9*10^-10 for residual fluctuation.

The source code of this website is from Jon Barron.

(last update: May 2024)