Ying-Cheng Lai
Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Physics
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287

Phone: (480) 965-6668
Fax: (480) 965-8325


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Current Group Members

  • Dr. Zigang Huang, Assistant Research Scientist
  • Mr. Riqi Su, Ph.D. student
  • Mr. Lei Ying, Ph.D. student
  • Mr. Yuzhong Chen, Ph.D. student
  • Mr. Guanglei Wang, Ph.D. student
  • Mr. Hongya Xu, Ph.D. student
  • Ms. Lezhi Wang, Ph.D. student
  • Mr. Junjie Jiang, Visiting student
  • Mr. John McCann, Ph.D. student

Former Group Members

Ph.D. Graduates

  • Yoshihiko Nagai, Physics, University of Kansas, 1998. Dissertation: Controlling chaos, blowout bifurcation, and periodic-orbit theory in chaotic dynamics.
  • Tolga Yalcinkaya, Physics, University of Kansas, 1998. Dissertation: Phase characterization and controlling chaos in deterministic flows.
  • Saeed Taherion, Physics, University of Kansas, 1999. Dissertation: Experimental and numerical study of synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators and effect of filtering on topological entropy.
  • Mukeshwar Dhamala, Physics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: Transient chaos.
  • Lonnie Sauter, Mathematics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: Generalized synchronism, low-dimensional chaos, and phase coherence in coupled chaotic systems.
  • Mary Ann Harrison, Physics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: On-off intermittency and patterning in spatially extended dynamical systems.
  • Victor Andrade, Physics, University of Kansas, 2002. Dissertation: Superpersistent chaotic transients and bifurcation from riddled to fractal basins.
  • Younghae Do, Mathematics, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Noise-indued chaotic transients.
  • Liqiang Zhu, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Neural learning with applications to brain-machine interface.
  • Antonio Rinaldi, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Bridging the scales with statistical damage mechanics. (Joint supervision with Prof. Dusan Krajcinovic from ASU Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering).
  • Liang Huang Electrical Engineering, ASU, December 2008. Dissertation: Dynamics and security of complex clustered network systems Recipient of 2008-2009 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, ASU SECEE
  • Qingfei Chen, Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2010. Dissertation: Dynamics, control and shock mitigation in nonlinear microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical resonant devices Recipient of 2009-2010 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, ASU SECEE
  • Rui Yang, Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2012. Dissertation: System reconstruction via compressive sensing, complex-network dynamics, and electronic transport in graphene systems
  • Xuan Ni, Electrical Engineering, ASU, December 2012. Dissertation: Effect of chaos on relativistic quantum tunneling Recipient of 2012-2013 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, ASU SECEE
Post-Doctoral Fellows and Research Faculty

  • Ruslan Davidchack, 1/1/1998-12/31/1999, Ph.D. in Physics (1998) from University of Kansas.
  • Awadhesh Prasad, 3/1/2000 - 2/28/2001, Ph.D. in Physics (1999) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
  • Alessandro de Moura, 1/1/2001 - 12/31/2001, Ph.D. in Physics (1999) from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
  • Zonghua Liu, 3/1/2000 - 7/10/2003, Ph.D. in Applied Physics (1998) from Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science.
  • Takashi Nishikawa, 2/1/2001 - 8/15/2003, Ph.D. in Mathematics (2000) from University of Maryland, College Park.
  • Adilson E. Motter, 3/1/2002-6/30/2003, Ph.D. in Physics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
  • Liang Zhao, 3/1/2003-12/31/2004, Ph.D. in Computer Science (1998) from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil.
  • Jong-Won Kim, 3/1/2004-1/31/2005, Ph.D. in Physics (2002) from University of Maryland at College Park.
  • Liqiang Zhu, 9/1/2004-2/28/2005. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2004) from Arizona State University.
  • Kwangho Park, 10/1/2003-12/31/07, Ph.D. in Physics (1997) from Konkuk University, Korea.
  • Wen-Xu Wang, 3/21/2008 - 12/31/2011, Ph.D. in Physics (2007) from University of Science and Technology of China.
  • Liang Huang, 11/1/2008 - 7/31/2011, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2008) from Arizona State University.
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