Boubacar Kanté
Boubacar Kanté is a physicist working in the field of wave-matter interaction at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the Chenming Hu Endowed Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. His research focuses on optical phenomena at a very small scale, developing nanostructures to harness the interaction of light and matter, such as metamaterials, topological lasers, compact lenses, or energy harvesting nanostructures. Education. Dr. Kanté received advanced graduate degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Lille University of Science and Technology in France in 2006 and pursued a Ph.D in physics at the  Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies of University of Paris-Saclay (formerly known as the Institute for Fundamental Electronics) which he received in 2010. He then joined UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in Xiang Zhang group, before moving to UC San Diego where he became an assistant and then associate professor. In 2019, he returned to UC Berkeley in the EECS department as an associate professor.