Gerald Tuma Presidential Associate Professor
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Binbin Weng, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds the University’s Gerald Tuma Presidential Professorship. He hosts a joint faculty fellow position with OU’s Institute for Resilient Environmental & Energy Systems (IREES) and Data Institute for Societal Challenges (DISC). He also serves as the faculty director of the University’s Micro- and Nano- fabrication laboratories.
Weng’s group specializes in the study of light and matter interactions, with a major focus in the mid-infrared spectral region. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award to explore new states of light in the mid-infrared spectrum. He also spearheads a large cross-disciplinary team on campus on developing and deploying a new integrated methane emission monitoring/modeling platform for regional scale early detection of methane emission. Such transdisciplinary efforts have successfully led to close to $10M in funds from the Department of Energy and industrial partners.
Weng received his B.S. degree in Physics from Xiamen University, a master’s degree in Semiconductor Physics from Zhejiang University, and a PhD in ECE from the University of Oklahoma. He has published nearly 50 journal papers and 4 book chapters and holds multiple patent inventions. He is a member of OPTICA, SPIE and IEEE Photonics.
Weng's group focuses on both fundamental and applied nanophotonic research to study the advanced optical structures which include photonic crystals, plasmonic structures, and metamaterials. The purpose of such efforts is for advancing modern light applications in a broad range of areas such as thermal imaging, chemical sensing, wireless data communication, and renewable energy harvesting.
Undergraduate Courses:
1) Zhou, Zifan, Xuan Wang, Yang Yan, Lkhanaajav Mijiddorj, Yu Ding, Tyler Beringer, Parisa Masnadi Khiabani et al. "AIMNET: An IoT-Empowered Digital Twin for Continuous Gas Emission Monitoring and Early Hazard Detection." IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, (2026). https://doi.org/10.1109/MIOT.2025.3638271
2) Yan, Yang, Lkhanaajav Mijiddorj, Tyler Beringer, Bilguunzaya Mijiddorj, Alex Ho, and Binbin Weng. "Machine Learning-Enhanced NDIR Methane Sensing Solution for Robust Outdoor Continuous Monitoring Applications." Sensors 25, no. 24 (2025): 7691. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25247691
3) Xia, Lipeng, Yuheng Liu, Ray T. Chen, Binbin Weng, and Yi Zou. "Advancements in miniaturized infrared spectroscopic-based volatile organic compound sensors: A systematic review." Applied Physics Reviews 11, no. 3 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0197236
4) Weng, Binbin. "The road to climate change mitigation via methane emissions monitoring." Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering 1, no. 2 (2024): 69-70. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44287-023-00014-5
5) Tahere Hemati, Yi Zou, Binbin Weng; "High-Q surface light emission from active parity-time-symmetric gratings", Physical Review Applied 17, 044023
6) Kiernan Arledge, Bruno Uchoa, Yi Zou, Binbin Weng, "Chemical Sensing with Topological Photonic Arrays of Circular Waveguides ", Physical Review Research, 3, 033106 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.033106
7) Tahere Hemati, Xingtong Zhang, Binbin Weng, "A Direct Oriented-Attachment Growth of Lead-Chalcogenide Mid-Infrared Nanocrystals Film on Amorphous Substrates," Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8, 13205-13212 (2020) http://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc02729d
8) Tahere Hemati, and Binbin Weng,* “Theoretical Design of Coupled High Contrast Grating (CHCG) Waveguides to Enhanced CO2 Light-Absorption for Gas Sensing Applications,” Journal of Applied Physics, 125, 154502 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5091933
9) Binbin Weng, Jijun Qiu, Wanyin Ge, Jian Xu and Zhisheng Shi, “Continuous-wave Mid-Infrared Photonic Crystal Light Emitters at Room Temperature,” Applied Physics: B 123, 29 (2017) DOI: 10.1007/s00340-016-6622-6
