Willie Padilla, Ph.D.

About

Theoretical, computational, and experimental investigation of electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, with a focus on artificial intelligence, deep / machine learning, with application to spectroscopy, computational imaging and sensing at microwave, terahertz, and infrared frequencies

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 2004
• Dr. Paul Wang Distinguished Professor
• Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Selected publications

• Xie W, Deng Y, Liu Y, Zhao Y, Shin SJ, Brown K, et al. Solution-processed electrochromics for synergistic solar and radiative heat management. Nature Sustainability. 2026 Apr 1;9(4):509u201322.
• Rozman N, Khatib O, Padilla WJ. A Coherent Metamaterial Detector. Laser and Photonics Reviews. 2026 Mar 6;20(5).
• Liang J, Sui C, Tian J, Higueros G, Chen TH, Wu R, et al. Ionic Liquid-Based Reversible Metal Electrodeposition for Adaptive Radiative Thermoregulation Under Extreme Environments. Advanced Functional Materials. 2026 Jan 19;36(6).
• Lu D, Malof JM, Padilla WJ. An Agentic Framework for Autonomous Metamaterial Modeling and Inverse Design. ACS Photonics. 2025 Nov 19;12(11):6071u201380.
• Peng R, Dong J, Malof J, Padilla WJ, Tarokh V. Deep generalized Green's function. Journal of Computational Physics. 2025 Oct 15;539.
• Im S, Frey E, Kim DH, Heo SY, Song YM, Vong MH, et al. Tunable Infrared Emissivity Using Laser-Sintered Liquid Metal Nanoparticle Films. Advanced Functional Materials. 2025 Apr 10;35(15).
• Deng Y, Fan K, Jin B, Malof J, Padilla WJ. Physics-informed learning in artificial electromagnetic materials. Applied Physics Reviews. 2025 Mar 1;12(1).
• Lu D, Deng Y, Malof JM, Padilla WJ. Learning Electromagnetic Metamaterial Physics With ChatGPT. IEEE Access. 2025 Jan 1;13:51513u201326.
• Padilla WJ, Deng Y, Ren S, Malof J. Solving Inverse Problems with Deep Learning. In: 2025 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium Aces Orlando 2025. 2025.
• Rozman N, Khatib O, Padilla WJ. A Metamaterial Coherent Detector for mmWave Operation. In: International Conference on Metamaterials Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics. 2025. p. 1542u20133.