ESP Biography



YUN KAI, MIT Postdoc Studying Microarchitecture with Laser



Major: Mechanical Engineering

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: Not available.

Picture of Yun Kai

Brief Biographical Sketch:

Yun’s interests lie in the utilization of ultrafast optics for the characterization of 3D architected materials. His expertise encompasses laser-ablation induced pressure waves, novel non-damaging photoacoustic excitation schemes, and various types of interferometry. Outside of the lab, Yun likes to go on day trips and play video games.



Past Classes

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S14982: Optics for Aerospace in Spark 2022 (Mar. 12 - 13, 2022)
In this course, we will give a brief overview of the optical systems used to survey outer space. We will focus on the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope and discuss what the NASA engineers had to consider when building a telescope to look further into the past than was ever done before.


S14687: How to build microhouses and how to characterize them? in Splash 2021 (Nov. 20 - 21, 2021)
This is an introductory course in 3D printing microarchitectures and the corresponding laser techniques used to study them. The state-of-art techniques will be explained in simple sketches and cartoons. No math.