Ying-Cheng Lai
ISS Endowed 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

  • Mr. Chen-Di Han, PhD candidate
  • Mr. Ling-Wei Kong, PhD candidate
  • Ms. Li-Li Ye, PhD student
  • Mr. Zheng-Meng Zhai, PhD student

Former Group Members

PhD Graduates

  • Yoshihiko Nagai, PhD in Physics, University of Kansas, 1998. Dissertation: Controlling chaos, blowout bifurcation, and periodic-orbit theory in chaotic dynamics.
  • Tolga Yalcinkaya, PhD in Physics, University of Kansas, 1998. Dissertation: Phase characterization and controlling chaos in deterministic flows.
  • Saeed Taherion, PhD in 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, PhD in Physics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: Transient chaos.
  • Lonnie Sauter, PhD in Mathematics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: Generalized synchronism, low-dimensional chaos, and phase coherence in coupled chaotic systems.
  • Mary Ann Harrison, PhD in Physics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: On-off intermittency and patterning in spatially extended dynamical systems.
  • Victor Andrade, PhD in Physics, University of Kansas, 2002. Dissertation: Superpersistent chaotic transients and bifurcation from riddled to fractal basins.
  • Younghae Do, PhD in Mathematics, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Noise-indued chaotic transients.
  • Liqiang Zhu, PhD in Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Neural learning with applications to brain-machine interface.
  • Antonio Rinaldi, PhD in 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 PhD in 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, PhD in 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, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2012. Dissertation: System reconstruction via compressive sensing, complex-network dynamics, and electronic transport in graphene systems
  • Xuan Ni, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2013. Dissertation: Effect of chaos on relativistic quantum tunneling Recipient of 2012-2013 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, ASU SECEE
  • Riqi Su, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, December 2015. Dissertation: Reconstructing and controlling nonlinear complex systems
  • Yuzhong Chen, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2016. Dissertation: Predicting and controlling complex networks
  • Lei Ying, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, August 2016. Dissertation: Quantum nonlinear dynamics in graphene, optomechanical, and semiconductor superlattice systems
  • Hong-Ya Xu, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2017. Dissertation: Electrical, spin, and valley transport in two-dimensional Dirac systems
  • Guanglei Wang, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2017. Dissertation: Quantum nonlinear dynamics and chaos in photonic and nano systems
  • Lezhi Wang, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, December 2017. Dissertation: Control and data analysis of complex networks
  • Junjie Jiang, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, May 2020. Dissertation: Predicting and controlling complex dynamical systems Recipient of 2019-2020 Palais Outstanding Doctoral Student Award, ASU SECEE
  • Cheng-Zhen Wang, PhD in Electrical Engineering, ASU, August 2021. Dissertation: Quantum transport and scattering in Dirac materials and molecular systems
Post-Doctoral Fellows and Research Faculty

  • Ruslan Davidchack, 1/1/1998-12/31/1999, PhD in Physics (1998) from University of Kansas.
  • Awadhesh Prasad, 3/1/2000 - 2/28/2001, PhD in Physics (1999) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.
  • Alessandro de Moura, 1/1/2001 - 12/31/2001, PhD in Physics (1999) from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
  • Zonghua Liu, 3/1/2000 - 7/10/2003, PhD in Applied Physics (1998) from Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science.
  • Takashi Nishikawa, 2/1/2001 - 8/15/2003, PhD in Mathematics (2000) from University of Maryland, College Park.
  • Adilson E. Motter, 3/1/2002-6/30/2003, PhD in Physics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
  • Liang Zhao, 3/1/2003-12/31/2004, PhD in Computer Science (1998) from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil.
  • Jong-Won Kim, 3/1/2004-1/31/2005, PhD in Physics (2002) from University of Maryland at College Park.
  • Liqiang Zhu, 9/1/2004-2/28/2005. PhD in Electrical Engineering (2004) from Arizona State University.
  • Kwangho Park, 10/1/2003-12/31/07, PhD in Physics (1997) from Konkuk University, Korea.
  • Wen-Xu Wang, 3/21/2008 - 12/31/2011, PhD in Physics (2007) from University of Science and Technology of China.
  • Liang Huang, 11/1/2008 - 7/31/2011, PhD in Electrical Engineering (2008) from Arizona State University.
  • Zi-Gang Huang, 8/1/2013 - 12/31/2015, PhD from Lanzhou University, China
  • Hong-Ya Xu, 5/1/2017 - 4/30/2020, PhD in Electrical Engineering (2017) from Arizona State University.
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