Yuchiro Kunai

Yuichiro was a Visiting Scientist from Fujikura in Japan. He received his M.S. in Polymer Science at Kyoto University, Japan. After graduating from Kyoto University, he joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., and during that term, he performed research activity in ChemE at MIT as a visiting scientist for two years. While working with Synthetic Neurobiology, he focused on developing novel optical devices.

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.

QuATON: quantization aware training of optical neurons

Optics Express | 2026

Kariyawasam H, Hettiarachchi R, Yang Q, Matlock A, Nambara T, Kusaka H, Kunai Y, So PTC, Boyden ES, Wadduwage DN (2026) QuATON: quantization aware training of optical neurons, Optics Express 34(1):1-14.