Ying-Cheng Lai received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Optical Engineering
from Zhejiang University in 1982 and 1985, and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees in Physics from University of Maryland at College Park in
1989 and 1992, respectively. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Classical
and Quantum Chaos under Celso Grebogi, James A. Yorke
and Edward Ott.
From 1992-1994 he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Biomedical
Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
under Raimond Winslow and Murray Sachs.
He joined the University of Kansas in 1994 as an Assistant Professor
of Physics and Mathematics and became Associate Professor in 1998.
In 1999, he came to Arizona State University as Associate
Professor of Mathematics and Associate Professor of
Electrical Engineering. He was promoted to Professor of
Mathematics and Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2001.
In 2005, he switched full-time into Electrical Engineering.
In 2009, Y.-C. Lai was named the Sixth Century Chair in Electrical
Engineering by University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.
Y.-C. Lai received the Air Force Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists
and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House in 1997. In the
same year, he also received the Faculty Career Award from
the National Science Foundation.
In 1999, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society with
the citation:
For his many contributions to the fundamentals of nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
In 2001, he served as Program Chair of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
for the APS March Meeting. In 2003, he received an
NSF ITR Award. In 2008, he received the Outstanding Referee Award
from the American Physical Society. He has authored
and co-authored over 335 papers, with 305 in refereed
journals. So far he has directed 14 Ph.D. and 20 Master theses and
supported 12 post-doctoral fellows. In the past five years, he gave
over 50 invited lectures and colloquia all over the world. His papers have been
cited more than 8400 times (according to Google Scholar). His current
Google-Scholar based H-index is 46 and i10 index is 175.
Y.-C. Lai has been a Co-Editor of Europhysics Letters since 2010. Currently
he also serves on the Editorial Boards of Physical Review E and Philosophical
Transactions of Royal Society A.
Y.-C. Lai's current research interests are Nonlinear Dynamics,
Complex Networks, Quantum Transport, Graphene Physics,
Biological Physics, and Signal Processing.
Contact Information:
Ying-Cheng Lai
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85287-5706
Phone: (480)965-6668
Fax: (480)965-8325
Email: Ying-Cheng.Lai@asu.edu
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