Liang Jiang

Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Liang Jiang theoretically investigates quantum systems and explores various quantum applications, such as quantum sensing, quantum transduction, quantum communication, and quantum computation. His research focuses on using quantum control and error correction to protect quantum information from decoherence to realize robust quantum information processing. He has worked on modular quantum computation, global-scale quantum networks, room-temperature nano-magnetometer, sub-wavelength imaging, micro-optical quantum transduction, and error-correction-assisted quantum sensing and simulation.

Prof. Jiang received his BS from Caltech in 2004 and PhD from Harvard University in 2009. He then worked as a Sherman Fairchild postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. In 2012, Jiang joined the faculty of Yale University as an assistant professor and later as an associate professor of Applied Physics. He was awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship in 2013. In 2019, Jiang moved to his current position as professor at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering.

Education

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Ph.D., Physics, June 2009

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA B.Sc., Physics, Jun 2004

Employment

July 2019 – present Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Univ. of Chicago

Aug 2012 – June 2019 Assistant/Associate Professor, Applied Physics, Yale Univ.

July 2009 – July 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests

Quantum information science, quantum error correction, quantum networks, quantum sensing, quantum algorithms, quantum optics, and condensed matter physics

Honors and Awards

- Highly Cited Researcher, Web of Science (2019-2023)

- Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing (2022)

- American Physical Society Fellow (2021)

- Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2013)

- Sloan Research Fellowship (2013)