Prof. HongWen Jiang
UCLA


Professor HongWen Jiang (姜弘文) is a condensed matter physicist. His current research include semiconductor quantum dots based quantum computation, topological excitations in magnetic tunnel junctions, and physics of quantum Hall systems. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Case Western Reserve University. He was a postdoc at Princeton, where he worked with Dan Tsui and Horst Stormer. He joined UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1991 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1998. Prof. Jiang was an Alfred Sloan fellow and he was the recipient of the William McMillan Award for outstanding contributions in condensed matter physics and the Macronix Prize from the Overseas Chinese Physics Association. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.