Corban Swain

Email: c_swain, followed by @MIT.EDU

Corban is a PhD student in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT. After growing up in Huntsville, Alabama, he earned his undergraduate degree at Washington University in St. Louis in Biomedical Engineering. Corban is incredibly excited by the the opportunity to both learn from talented professors and mentor students from diverse backgrounds as he pursues a career in science.

Publications

Isotropic shrinkage of patterned vacancies enables three-dimensional nanoprecise metastructures for visible light applications

Nature Photonics | 2026

Quansan Yang*, Gaojie Yang*, Takahiro Nambara, Hiroyuki Kusaka, Yuichiro Kunai, Alex C. Matlock, Corban Swain, Brett Pryor, Yannick Salamin, Daniel Oran, Hasindu Kariyawasam, Ramith Hettiarachchi, Dushan Wadduwage, Marin Soljačić, Peter T. C. So** & Edward S. Boyden** (2026) Isotropic shrinkage of patterned vacancies enables three-dimensional nanoprecise metastructures for visible light applications, Nature Photonics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-026-01896-1.

Three-dimensional nanophotonics with spatially modulated optical properties

Light: Science & Applications | 2026

Salamin Y, Yang G, Mills B, Grossi Fonseca A, Roques-Carmes C, Yang Q, Beroz J, Kooi SE, de Miguel Comella M, Mak K, Vaidya S, Oran D, Swain C, Sun Y, Maayani S, Sloan J, Amin Elfadil Elawad A, Lopez JJ, Boyden ES, Soljačić M (2026) Three-dimensional nanophotonics with spatially modulated optical properties, Light Science and Applications 15(1):145.