Rate My Professor Di Zhu

Di Zhu is an Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Professor and NRF Fellow) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), with a courtesy joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds a Senior Scientist position at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and is a Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT). Di Zhu received his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2013, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017 and 2019, respectively. From 2019 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. In 2021, he joined the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering at A*STAR as a research scientist and principal investigator before moving to NUS in September 2023.

His research focuses on integrated quantum photonics, applied superconductivity, and nanoscale electromagnetics, with particular emphasis on thin-film lithium niobate photonics and superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors. Di Zhu has received several awards and fellowships, including the MIT TR35 Asia Pacific award in 2024, the NRF Fellowship in 2023, the Harvard Quantum Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship, the A*STAR National Science Scholarship, the MIT Jin-Au Kong thesis award, the Temasek Professorship, and the IPS Nanotechnology Physics Award.