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Sensong An

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Electrical Engineering

Email: Sensong.An@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2021
    Major: Electrical Engineering

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • EENG 2611 - Circuit Analysis Lab, 1 course.
  • EENG 3410 - Engineering Electromagnetics, 5 courses.
  • EENG 3411 - Engineering Electromagnetics Lab, 4 courses.
  • EENG 5420 - Antenna Theory and Design, 1 course.
  • EENG 5890 - Directed Study, 2 courses.
  • EENG 6940 - Individual Research, 4 courses.

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • An, S. (2023). Deep Learning for Metasurfaces and Metasurfaces for Deep Learning. 319-343. John Wiley & Sons, Inc..

    • Conference Proceeding

  • An, S. (2023). Deep-learning designed fabrication-friendly metasurfaces. FTu1E. 3. Optica Publishing Group. https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=fio-2023-FTu1E.3
  • An, S. (2023). LWIR metalenses for broadband, wide-angle imaging. FW5G. 1. Optica Publishing Group.
  • An, S. (2023). Wide field-of-view long-wave infrared metalenses. 12530 102-109. SPIE. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/12530/125300I/Wide-field-of-view-long-wave-infrared-metalenses/10.1117/12.2661943.short
  • An, S. (2023). A Fully 3D-Printed Flexible Millimeter-Wave Doppler Radar. 335-338. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10188080/
  • An, S. (2023). Data Collection and Network Design for Deep Learning Based Metasurface Design. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10114751

    • Journal Article

  • Huang, Y., Zheng, B., Dong, Y., Tang, H., Zhao, H., Shawon, R.H., An, S., Zhang, H. (2025). MCP-enabled LLM for meta-optics inverse design: leveraging differentiable solver without LLM expertise. NPJ Nanophotonics. DE GRUYTER. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2025-0507/html
  • Bai, Y., Gu, Z., Wang, X., Zhang, H., An, S., Ding, J. (2025). Hybrid Inverse Design Framework for Microwave Ultrabroadband Achromatic Metalens. IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 73 (10) 7816 - 7829. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11074275
  • An, S. (2024). AI for optical metasurface. 1 (36) Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44310-024-00037-2
  • An, S. (2024). An Additively Manufactured Flexible Millimeter- Wave Doppler Radar: Toward Fully Printed High-Frequency Multilayer Flexible Hybrid Electronics. IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. 72 (11) 6706 - 6715. IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10538061
  • An, S. (2024). Wide-Field-of-View, Large-Area Long-Wave Infrared Silicon Metalenses. 11 (5) 1943–1949. ACS. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00013
  • An, S. (2024). Achromatic Single Metalens Imaging via Deep Neural Network. 11 (4) 1645–1656. ACS. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01870
  • An, S. (2023). Photochemically Engineered Large‐Area Arsenic Sulfide Micro‐Gratings for Hybrid Diffractive–Refractive Infrared Platforms. 5 (1) 2300241. Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adpr.202300241
  • An, S. (2023). Design of continuously tunable varifocal metalenses. Journal of Optics. 25 (11) 115102. IOP Publishing. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2040-8986/acfbe8/meta
  • An, S. (2023). Dual-band optical collimator based on deep-learning designed, fabrication-friendly metasurfaces. 12 (17) 3491-3499. De Gruyter.
  • An, S. (2023). Wide field-of-view metalens: a tutorial. 5 (3) 033001-033001. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/advanced-photonics/volume-5/issue-3/033001/Wide-field-of-view-metalens-a-tutorial/10.1117/1.AP.5.3.033001.short
  • An, S. (2023). Understanding wide field-of-view flat lenses: an analytical solution. Optics Letters. Chinese Optical Society. https://opg.optica.org/col/abstract.cfm?uri=col-21-2-023601

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • An, S. (Author & Presenter), Invited talk at TTU, Deep learning enabled flat optics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • An, S. (Author & Presenter), 2024 IEEE Radio & Wireless Week, Ultra-Wideband Schiffman Phase Shifter Designed with Deep Neural Networks, San Antonio, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • An, S. (Presenter), Invited talk at Shanghai Normal Universty, AI-accelerated Nanophononics: Innovation and Application, Shanghai, China. (2023 - 2023).

    • Oral Presentation

  • An, S. (Author), SPIE OPTO, Deep learning-based approach for multi-functional fabrication-friendly metasurfaces, SPIE, San Francisco, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).

Copyrights, Patents

    Patent

  • Hu, J., Gu, T., Yang, F., An, S., Lin, H., Multifunctional metasurface flat optics, US12429630B2. Regular, Date Patent Approved: 2025. .
  • An, S., MULTIFUNCTIONAL METASURFACE FLAT OPTICS, 20190178714. Provisional, Date of Patent Application: September 29, 2022. Date Licensed: December 19, 2024. .

Service

University Service

  • Faculty Mentor, Senior design project mentor. (August 1, 2025 - August 1, 2026).
  • Host of Guest Artist, UNT EE Department Seminar Series (Guest Speaker Program). (August 1, 2025 - March 6, 2026).
  • Host of Guest Artist, UNT EE Department Seminar Series (Guest Speaker Program). (October 31, 2025 - October 31, 2025).
  • Faculty Mentor, UNT EE Senior Design (Capstone) Project Mentoring. (August 1, 2024 - August 1, 2025).
  • Member, 2024-2025 EE department faculty search committee. (October 1, 2024 - February 1, 2025).
  • Member, 2025 Falculty Search Committee. (November 1, 2024 - April 1, 2024).

Professional Service

  • Editor, Associate Editor, MDPI Publisher. Basel, (December 1, 2024 - May 31, 2026).
  • Track Organizer, DCAS (IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems conference ) 2026 Organizing Committee. Dallas, Texas. (October 30, 2025 - March 30, 2026).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Nature Nanotech (Peer Review / Manuscript Reviewer). Denton, TX. (November 20, 2025 - November 28, 2025).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Nature Machine intelligence (Peer Review / Manuscript Reviewer). Denton, TX. (May 2, 2025 - May 10, 2025).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, 2025 DoD NDSEG Fellowship Program. Denton, TX. (January 1, 2025 - March 1, 2025).
  • Attendee, Meeting, Industry Advisory Board Meeting. Denton, TX. (January 22, 2025 - January 22, 2025).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Nature Communications (Peer Review / Manuscript Reviewer). Denton, (January 14, 2025 - January 20, 2025).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, ACS photonics(Peer Review / Manuscript Reviewer). Denton, TX. (November 2, 2024 - January 2, 2025).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, NPJ Artificial Intelligence (Peer Review / Manuscript Reviewer). Denton, TX. (October 9, 2024 - October 20, 2024).
  • Reviewer, Grant Proposal, NSF. Denton, TX. (December 1, 2023 - November 15, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, American Chemical Society. Denton, TX. (November 3, 2023 - December 1, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Wiley-VCH. Denton, TX. (October 10, 2023 - November 20, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Nature Portfolio. Denton, TX. (July 20, 2023 - August 20, 2023).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, IEEE. Denton, TX. (July 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023).