Yichen Shen

5.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Yichen Shen is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichen Shen has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 17 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Yichen Shen's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (15 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (14 papers). Yichen Shen is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (20 papers), Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing (15 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (14 papers). Yichen Shen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Singapore. Yichen Shen's co-authors include Marin Soljačić, Dirk Englund, Nicholas C. Harris, Scott A. Skirlo, Tom Baehr‐Jones, Mihika Prabhu, Xin Sun, Shijie Zhao, Hugo Larochelle and Michael Hochberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yichen Shen

31 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits

2017 2.1k citations Yichen Shen, Nicholas C. Harris et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Efficient plasmonic emission by the quantum Čerenkov effect from hot carriers in graphene

2016 323 citations Ido Kaminer, Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan et al. Nature Communications profile →
Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond

2022 321 citations Hailong Zhou, Jianji Dong et al. Light Science & Applications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yichen Shen United States	19	2.8k	2.4k	836	490	449	35	3.8k
Mona Jarrahi United States	35	4.4k 1.6×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	879 1.8×	1.5k 3.3×	175	5.6k
Xianfeng Chen China	39	2.9k 1.1×	911 0.4×	4.6k 5.5×	503 1.0×	927 2.1×	434	6.1k
Lin Kang China	30	1.5k 0.5×	390 0.2×	931 1.1×	904 1.8×	845 1.9×	276	3.2k
Fang Liu China	27	1.4k 0.5×	300 0.1×	1.1k 1.4×	466 1.0×	1.0k 2.3×	153	2.8k
Yong‐Chun Liu China	34	1.9k 0.7×	749 0.3×	3.0k 3.6×	312 0.6×	689 1.5×	109	3.6k
Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev United States	20	786 0.3×	273 0.1×	869 1.0×	946 1.9×	779 1.7×	59	2.2k
Chee Wei Wong United States	38	3.6k 1.3×	571 0.2×	4.0k 4.7×	445 0.9×	1.4k 3.2×	235	5.3k
Ewold Verhagen Netherlands	31	2.4k 0.9×	434 0.2×	2.5k 3.0×	1.0k 2.1×	1.8k 4.1×	78	4.4k
Michael J. Strain United Kingdom	28	2.3k 0.8×	575 0.2×	2.1k 2.6×	331 0.7×	775 1.7×	161	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yichen Shen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yichen Shen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yichen Shen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yichen Shen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yichen Shen. Yichen Shen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shi, Nuannuan, Guojie Zhang, Ye Jin, et al.. (2025). High-integrated photonic tensor core utilizing high-dimensional lightwave and microwave multidomain multiplexing. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 27–27. 8 indexed citations

Liu, G. M., Huaiyu Meng, Yu Zhou, et al.. (2025). InfiniteHBD: Building Datacenter-Scale High-Bandwidth Domain for LLM with Optical Circuit Switching Transceivers. 1–23.

Zhang, Guojie, Nuannuan Shi, Guangyi Li, et al.. (2023). Compact optical convolution processing unit based on multimode interference. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3000–3000. 99 indexed citations

Xiang, Shuiying, Yuechun Shi, Yahui Zhang, et al.. (2023). Photonic integrated neuro-synaptic core for convolutional spiking neural network. Opto-Electronic Advances. 6(11). 230140–230140. 24 indexed citations

Zhou, Hailong, Jianji Dong, Junwei Cheng, et al.. (2022). Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond. Light Science & Applications. 11(1). 30–30. 321 indexed citations breakdown →

Lin, Xiao, Hao Hu, S. Easo, et al.. (2021). A Brewster route to Cherenkov detectors. ePubs (Science and Technology Facilities Council, Research Councils UK). 40 indexed citations

Nakov, Preslav, et al.. (2020). Vector-Vector-Matrix Architecture: A Novel Hardware-Aware Framework for Low-Latency Inference in NLP Applications. 7975–7984. 1 indexed citations

Qu, Yurui, Huanzheng Zhu, Yichen Shen, et al.. (2020). Inverse design of an integrated-nanophotonics optical neural network. Science Bulletin. 65(14). 1177–1183. 61 indexed citations

Prabhu, Mihika, Charles Roques‐Carmes, Yichen Shen, et al.. (2020). Accelerating recurrent Ising machines in photonic integrated circuits. Optica. 7(5). 551–551. 98 indexed citations

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Roques‐Carmes, Charles, Yichen Shen, Mihika Prabhu, et al.. (2019). Photonic Recurrent Ising Sampler. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations

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Qu, Yurui, Yichen Shen, Kezhen Yin, et al.. (2018). Polarization-Independent Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity. ACS Photonics. 5(10). 4125–4131. 38 indexed citations

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Shen, Yichen, Nicholas C. Harris, Scott A. Skirlo, et al.. (2017). Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits. Nature Photonics. 11(7). 441–446. 2072 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shen, Yichen, Nicholas C. Harris, Scott A. Skirlo, Dirk Englund, & Marin Soljačić. (2017). Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits. 189–190. 63 indexed citations

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Regan, Emma C., Y. Igarashi, Bo Zhen, et al.. (2016). Direct imaging of isofrequency contours in photonic structures. Science Advances. 2(11). e1601591–e1601591. 31 indexed citations

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Shen, Yichen, Chia Wei Hsu, Yi Xiang Yeng, John D. Joannopoulos, & Marin Soljačić. (2016). Broadband angular selectivity of light at the nanoscale: Progress, applications, and outlook. Applied Physics Reviews. 3(1). 11103–11103. 71 indexed citations

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Kaminer, Ido, Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan, Hrvoje Buljan, et al.. (2016). Efficient plasmonic emission by the quantum Čerenkov effect from hot carriers in graphene. Nature Communications. 7(1). ncomms11880–ncomms11880. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shen, Yichen, Ivan Čelanović, John D. Joannopoulos, & Marin Soljačić. (2014). Metamaterial Broadband Angular Selectivity. FM2C.2–FM2C.2.

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Shen, Yichen, et al.. (2014). Structural Colors from Fano Resonances. ACS Photonics. 2(1). 27–32. 119 indexed citations

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Shen, Yichen, Dexin Ye, Li Wang, et al.. (2014). Metamaterial broadband angular selectivity. Physical Review B. 90(12). 56 indexed citations

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Shen, Yichen, Dexin Ye, Ivan Čelanović, et al.. (2014). Optical Broadband Angular Selectivity. Science. 343(6178). 1499–1501. 190 indexed citations

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