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
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.
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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.
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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.