Yao is selected as one of the 83 award recipients of the 2022 Early Career Award, by the Department of Energy! He is the first DOE Early Career Award recipient from the College of Science. The program “is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during crucial early career years,…
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Welcome summer intern student Yuanjie Sun
We’re excited to welcome our new summer intern student, Yuanjie Sun! Yuanjie is currently a master student at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
Welcome master student Rajat Mittal
We’re excited to welcome a new student, Rajat Mittal, to the group! Rajat is currently a master student in the Computer Engineering department at Clemson.
Welcome undergraduate student Jiarui Liu
We’re excited to welcome a new intern undergraduate student, Jiarui Liu, to our group!
Light-controlled Coulomb paper published in Phys. Rev. X
Our collaborative paper with Prof. Mitrano at Harvard University is published in Physical Review X! This work demonstrates the light control of on-site Coulomb interaction in cuprates, using a combination of time-resolved x-ray experiments and exact diagonalization simulations.
Welcome postdoc Wei-Chih Chen
We’re excited to welcome our new postdoc Wei-Chih Chen to the group! Wei-Chih recently obtained his Ph.D. degree from University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Seminar at Yale
Yao presented an invited seminar talk at the Solid State & Optics Seminar of Yale University, about cooperation of phonons and correlations in cuprates.
MRS Fall Meeting 2021
Yao presents an invited talk at the MRS Fall Meeting 2021 about time-resolved x-ray scattering and control of quantum materials.
Welcome Ph.D. students Haoran Yan and Chendi Xie
We’re excited to welcome two graduate students, Haoran Yan and Chendi Xie, to the group!
Nonequilibrium NGSED published in Phys. Rev. X
Our paper about the nonequilibrium NGSED method is published in Physical Review X! This method extended the simulation of strong electron-phonon coupled and strongly correlated systems out of equilibrium, revealing the fluctuating nature of light-induced d-wave superconductivity.