Associate Professor
Address: Zhenjiang Building B410
Email: songwange@nju.edu.cn
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=svxKoNsAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN
Education:
2016-2021, Ph.D. in Optical engineering, Nanjing University
2012-2016, Bachelor degree in Materials physics, Nanjing University
Employment:
2025-present, Associate Professor, Nanjing University
2023-2025, Associate Researcher, Nanjing University
2021-2023, Assistant Researcher, Nanjing University
Research interest:
Nanophotonics, topological photonics, non-Hermitian physics, integrated photonics, metamaterials/metasurfaces
Activities:
Reviewers of Physical Review Letters, Science Advances, Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications, etc.
Youth Editors of Infrared and laser engineering
Guest Editors of Photonics, Frontiers in Physics, etc.
Grants:
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Excellent Young Scientists Fund
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth project
Patents:
A high-density integrated optical waveguide, China, ZL202010690095.X
HIGH-DENSITY INTEGRATED OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE, UK, GB2204438.2
Selected publications:
1. Xuanyu Liu, Wange Song*, Jiacheng Sun, Shengjie Wu, Yichen Zhu, Zhiyuan Lin, Chunyu Huang, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li*, Approaching Optimal Light Evolution at Adiabaticity Control Limit in Inverse-Designed Waveguides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 266601(2025).
2. Wange Song*, Yi Yang, Zhiyuan Lin, Xuanyu Liu, Shengjie Wu, Chen Chen, Yongguan Ke, Chaohong Lee, Wei Liu*, Shining Zhu, Yuri Kivshar*, Tao Li* & Shuang Zhang*, Artificial gauge fields in photonics, Nature Reviews Physics 7, 606–620 (2025).
3. Zhiyuan Lin, Jian Li, Wange Song*, Shanhe Su, Jiacheng Sun, Shengjie Wu, Chunyu Huang, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li*, Dissipative Topological Dynamics in Optical Waveguides: Sensitivity versus Robustness, Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 223802 (2025).
4. Wange Song†, Xuanyu Liu†, Jiacheng Sun†, Oubo You, Shengjie Wu, Chen Chen,Shining Zhu, Tao Li*, Shuang Zhang*, Shortcuts to adiabatic non-Abelian braiding on silicon photonic chips, Science Advances 11, eadt7224 (2025).
5. Wange Song*; Oubo You*; Jiacheng Sun; Shengjie Wu; Chen Chen; Chunyu Huang; Kai Qiu; Shining Zhu; Shuang Zhang†; Tao Li†, Fast topological pumps via quantum metric engineering on photonic chips, Science Advances 10, eadn5028 (2024).
6. Shengjie Wu; Wange Song†; Jiacheng Sun; Jian Li; Zhiyuan Lin; Xuanyu Liu; Shining Zhu; and Tao Li†, Approaching the adiabatic infimum of topological pumps in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides, Nature Communications, 15, 9805 (2024).
7. Zhiyuan Lin; Wange Song†; Li-Wei Wang; Haoran Xin; Jiacheng Sun; Shengjie Wu; Chunyu Huang; Shining Zhu; Jian-Hua Jiang†; Tao Li†, Observation of Topological Transition in Floquet Non-Hermitian Skin Effects in Silicon Photonics, Physical Review Letters 133, 073803 (2024).
8. Wange Song; Zhiyuan Lin; Jitao Ji; Jiacheng Sun; Chen Chen; Shengjie Wu; Chunyu Huang; Luqi Yuan†; Shining Zhu; Tao Li†, Bound-Extended Mode Transition in Type-II Synthetic Photonic Weyl Heterostructures, Physical Review Letters 132, 143801 (2024).
9. Xuanyu Liu*; Zhiyuan Lin*; Wange Song†; Jiacheng Sun; Chunyu Huang; Shengjie Wu; Xingjian Xiao; Haoran Xin; Shining Zhu; Tao Li†, Perfect Excitation of Topological States by Supersymmetric Waveguides, Physical Review Letters 132, 016601 (2024).
10. Wange Song; Shengjie Wu; Chen Chen; Yuxin Chen; Chunyu Huang; Luqi Yuan†; Shining Zhu; Tao Li†, Observation of Weyl Interface States in Non-Hermitian Synthetic Photonic Systems, Physical Review Letters 130, 043803 (2023).
11. Wange Song; Ting Li; Shengjie Wu; Zhizhang Wang; Chen Chen; Yuxin Chen; Chunyu Huang; Kai Qiu; Shining Zhu; Yi Zou; Tao Li†, Dispersionless Coupling among Optical Waveguides by Artificial Gauge Field, Physical Review Letters 129, 053901 (2022). (Featured in Physics, Editor's suggestion).
12. Wange Song; Wenzhao Sun; Chen Chen; Qinghai Song; Shumin Xiao; Shining Zhu; and Tao Li†, Breakup and Recovery of Topological Zero Modes in Finite Non-Hermitian Optical Lattices, Physical Review Letters 123, 165701 (2019). (Editor's Suggestion).

