Chao-Yang Lu | Division of Quantum Physics and Quantum Information

Category

Faculty

Position

Professor

cylu@ustc.edu.cn

Telephone

021-68121322

Address

University of Science and Technology of China, 99 Xiupu Road, Shanghai, 201315, China

Homepage

http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~cylu

Introduction

Education
2008/01-2011/06, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, PhD in Physics
2004/09-2007/12, Department of Modern Physics, USTC, Graduate student
2000/09-2004/07, Physics Department, USTC, Bachelor of Science
Work experience
2011/06-2022.01, University of Science and Technology of China, Professor of Physics
2018/09-now, Adjunct Professor of New York University at Shanghai
2021.01-now Executive Dean of the Shanghai Research Institute of the University of Science and Technology of China
2022.06-now, University of Science and Technology of China, Chair Professor
2022.06-now, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Center for Quantum Sciences
2023.01-now, Executive Director of the Quantum Computing Division at the Hefei National Laboratory
2024.06-now, Chairman of the World Association of Young Scientists

Awards, Scholarship & Honors
2007 Top Ten Scientific Advance of China, Selected by CAS and CAE
2008-2010 Overseas Research Studentship, Cambridge University
2008-2010 Cambridge Overseas Trust, Cambridge University
2011 Tizard Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
2011 National Young Thousand Talent of China
2012 National Natural Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars
2012 Top Ten Scientific Advance of China, Selected by CAS and CAE
2014 Hong Kong Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scholar Award
2014 CAS International Cooperation Award for Young Scientists
2015 National Natural Science Fund for Exceptional Young Scholars
2015 State Natural Science First Class Prize
2015 Physics World “Breakthrough of the Year”, Institute of Physics, UK
2015 Top Ten Scientific Advance of China, Selected by CAS and CAE
2016 “Top ten science star of China” by Nature
2016 Fellow of Optical Society of American (OSA)
2016 “Optics in 2016”, Optics & Photonics News, OSA
2017 China's Youth Wusi Medal
2017 Fresnel Prize, European Physical Society
2017 “Optics in 2017”, Optics & Photonics News, OSA
2017 Top Ten Scientific Advance of China, Selected by CAS and CAE
2018 TR35 China, MIT Technology Review
2018 Highlight of the Year, APS Physics
2018 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
2018 Chinese Academy of Sciences Young Scientist Prize
2019 Huangkun Prize in Semiconductor Physics, Chinese Physical Society
2019 Nishina Asian Award, from the Nishina Memorial Foundation, Japan
2019 Xplorer Prize, from Tencent Foundation
2019 IUPAP-ICO Young Scientist Prize in Optics
2019 “Optics in 2019”, Optics & Photonics News, OSA
2020 Adolph Lomb Medal, OSA
2020 Science and Technology Award for Chinese Youth
2020-2024 Highly Cited Researcher
2020 Innovator of the Year, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2020 “A year of quantum highlights” by Physics World
2020 “World’s top 10 digital innovation technologies” by UNESCO
2021 Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing, APS
2021 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader
2021 James P. Gordon Memorial Speakership, CLEO
2021 “Top 10 Science Breakthrough of the Year” in Falling Walls Conference 2021
2021 Fellow of Institute of Physics (invited)
2021 Highlight of the Year, APS Physics
2021 “Optics in 2021”, Optics & Photonics News, OSA
2022 Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize), OCPA
2022 Highlight of the Year, APS Physics
2023 New Cornerstone Investigator
2023 HLHL Science & Technology Innovation Award
2024 APS Fellow

Research activities
Solid-state quantum photonics based on semiconductor quantum dots and cavity-QED; multi-photon quantum entanglement based on nonlinear optics; linear optical quantum computation, especially boson sampling; quantum teleportation; quantum metrology; satellite-based global-scale quantum networks; superconducting quantum circuits; and fundamental problems in quantum mechanics

Professional Service
1. Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters (2024-)
2. Director, Shanghai Institute for Advanced Studied, University of Science and Technolog of China, 2022-2027
3. General Secretary for the Micius Science & Technology Foundation and the Micius Quantum Prize (2018-)
4. Chair of the Quantum-2020 online conference, co-organized by IOP, CPS, and USTC
5. Chair of the Quantum-2022 online conference, co-organized by IOP, CPS, WYSS, and USTC
6. Steering Committee for International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC), 2016-2020
7. Chair of the Quantum Computing and Communication Technical Group, OSA, 2017-2018
8. Direct of the Young Editorial Board of China Laser Press, 2018-
9. Editorial Board Member for Applied Physics Reviews, 2022-2025
10. Editorial Board Member for ACS Photonics, 2021-2023
11. Editorial Board Member for Quantum Science and Technology, IOP, 2016-2020
12. Associate Editor for Science Bulletin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2018-2020
13. Editorial Board Member for PhotoniX, CSOE and Springer Nature, 2019-2021
14. Editorial Board Member for Advanced Quantum Technology, Wiley, 2018-2020
15. Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports, NPG, 2015-2019
16. Editorial Board Member for iScience, Cell Press, 2018-2020
17. Editorial Board Member for Advanced Photonics, China Laser Press, 2018-2020
18. Steering Committee for Quantum-journal.org, the open journal for quantum science, 2016-2020; Founding Committee of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) China; Guest editor, Optics Communications special issue on single-photon sources, 2017; Guest editor, Frontier in Physics, 2018; Special issue on Photonic Quantum Technologies, Advanced Quantum Technology, 2019
19. The coordinator of the Chinese Academy Sciences – Alibaba Quantum Computing Laboratory, 2015-
20. Co-chair for Sino-Germany Solid-State Quantum Information Symposium, 2013; Multi-photon interferometry workshop, 2015; CIOP 2019, AOPC 2019
21. International Advisory Committee, 1st Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology Conference
22. Program Committee, International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, 2019; Program Committee, SPIE-OP19 - Quantum Nanophotonic Materials, Devices, and Systems; International Program Committee, Quantum Electronics (FIO 3), OSA Frontiers in Optics 2019,2020; International Program Committee, the 35th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors 2020 (ICPS 2020); Program Committee for CLEO Pacific Rim, 2018, and Chair for workshop Photonic Quantum Computing; Program Committee, 20th International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy; Program Committee, 19th International Conference on the Physics of Light Matter Coupling in Nanostructures
23. Panel review for Young Thousand Talent Program, Natural Science Foundation of China
24. Academic Degree Committee for Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, USTC, 2015-2020
25. Review for Nature Research Journals, Review of Modern Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review, Optica etc.
26. Review for European Research Council, EPSRC, Koerber European Science Prize, Swiss National Science Foundation, Singapore Ministry of Education, Changjiang scholar program

Funding as PI (total >20 million USD in the past 10 years)
USTC start-up grant, 2011-2014, 3 million RMB;
Youth Thousand Talent Program, 2011-2015, 3 million RMB;
Natural Science Foundation of China, general funding, 2011-2015, 1 million RMB;
NSFC Outstanding Young Scholars Award, 2012-2016, 1 million RMB;
National Fundamental Research (973) project, 2012-2016, 5.7 million RMB;
MOST special fund for quantum computing, 2013-2016, 8.2 million RMB;
NSFC Key Program, 2013-2017, 4.6 million RMB;
CAS International Cooperation Award, 2014-2016, 0.8 million RMB;
NSFC Exceptional Young Scientists Award, 2015-2018, 4 million RMB;
Anhui Quantum Technology initiative, 2017-2020, 17 million RMB;
NSFC general funding, 2017-2020, 0.65 million RMB;
NSFC major funding in quantum metrology, 2018-2022, 6 million RMB;
Shanghai Quantum Technology initiative, 2020-2024, 18 million RMB;
National Quantum Initiative, 2021-2025, 140 million RMB.

Student/postdoc supervision (5 postdocs, 25 PhD graduated, current 16 students)
Dr. Xi-Lin Wang (postdoc 2012-2015, now a full professor at Nanjing University); Dr. Yu-Ming He (2011-2016, followed by a postdoc at Universit of Wurzburg, now a full professor of USTC); Dr. Yu-Jia Wei (2011-2016, lecturer at Sun Yat-Sen University); Dr. Yu He (2011-2016, followed by a postdoc at UNSW, now a professor of SUSTECH); Dr. Xin-Dong Cai (2011-2016, now a successful banker); Dr. Zu-En Su (2012-2017, now postdoc at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology); Dr. He-Liang Huang (2012-2017), Dr. Chang Liu (2012-2017), Dr. Dian Wu (2012-2017, visiting Oxford University in 2017, now a postdoc at USTC); Dr. Ming-Cheng Chen (2013-2017, now an assistant professor at USTC) ; Dr. Yuan Li (2014-2019, now a postdoc at NTU); Dr. Xing Ding (2014-2020, now a postdoc at USTC), Dr. Chao Chen (2014-2020, now a postdoc at Nanjing University), Dr. Hui Wang (2014-2020), Dr. Jin-Peng Li (2014-2020), Dr. Zhao-Chen Duan (2014-2020, now at QuantumCTek), Dr. Biying Wang (2015-2021, now at Huawei), Dr. Jin Qin (2016-2022), Dr. Yi-Han Luo (2016-2021, now at SUSTECH), Dr. Han-Sen Zhong (2016-2021, now at SHAI).
Current PhD students: Si Chen, Jian-Wen Wang, Yu-Hao Deng, Li-Chao Peng, Cong Yin, Yu-Chen Zhang, Feng-Ming Liu, Zhong-Xia Shang, Hao-Wen Cheng, Rui Lin, Yong-Peng Guo, Xiang You, Si-Qiu Gong, He Chen, Hao-Nan Chen, Zhou-Chen Deng.

Publications
2 in Rev. Mod. Phys., 5 in Science, 9 in Nature, 4 in Nature Physics, 5 in Nature Photonics, 3 in Nature Nanotechnology, 5 in PNAS, 62 in Physical Review Letters, 1 in Phys. Rev. X, 1 in Physics Reports, >34000 citations in Google scholar (as on March 2025).
Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/D-8481-2011
Google scholar update: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=0AJt zEAAAAJ

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