Tongcang Li

李统藏， 普渡大学

(2015年9月 更新)

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University

Email:    tcli@purdue.edu        

Webpage:  https://sites.google.com/site/litongcang/

EDUCATION

·       2011: Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Texasat Austin, USA.

·       2004: B.S. in Physics, University of Scienceand Technology of China

EMPLOYMENT

·        08/2014 - : Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University 

·        08/2014 - : Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

·        12/2011 - 07/2014: Affiliate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

·        08/2011 - 07/2014: Postdoctoral Scholar,  University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

OTHER EXPERIENCES

AWARDS AND HONORS

·        Springer Theses Prize, Springer Science + Business Media, 2012

·        Outstanding Dissertation in Physics, Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011

·        Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council, 2011

·        Jean Bennett Memorial Student Travel Grant, Optical Society of America Foundation, 2010

         (Only one student is awarded this grant per year. Citation: “In recognition of outstanding research excellence”.)

·        Lawrence C. Biedenharn Endowment for Excellence, University of Texas at Austin, 2010

·        Excellent Bachelor Thesis, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004.

·        Superexcellent Research Program of Undergraduate Students, University of Science and Technology of China, 2003.

·        Academic Excellence Awards: 2000-2003

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

I have published one book and more than 20 papers in Science, Nature Physics,  Physical Review Letters  

(including two cover stories)  and other leading journals.  My work has been selected as a Research Highlight by Nature and Nature Photonics on four occasions  and has been widely reported bymajor media and professional magazines, including NBC News, Fox News,  Scientific American, New Scientist, Physics Today, Physics World,Materials Today, etc. 

BOOK

• Tongcang Li, Fundamental Tests of Physics with Optically Trapped Microspheres (Springer Theses)  (Springer, New York, 2013)

   

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Peng Zhang*, Tongcang Li*, Jie Zhu*, Xuefeng Zhu, Sui Yang, Yuan Wang, Xiaobo Yin, and Xiang Zhang. "Generation of acoustic self-bending and bottle beams by phase engineering", Nature Communications, 5, 4316 (2014) (* coleading authors)

• S. Kheifets, A. Simha, K. Melin, Tongcang Li, M. G. Raizen. "Observation of Brownian motion in liquids at short times: instantaneous velocity and memory loss", Science,343, 1493 (2014)

• Tongcang Li, Z.-X. Gong, Z.-Q. Yin,H. T. Quan, X. Yin, P. Zhang, L.-M. Duan, X. Zhang, “Space-time crystals oftrapped ions”, Phys. Rev. Lett.,109, 163001(2012)  (cover story, highlighted by Nature)

• Peng Zhang, Yi Hu,Tongcang Li, Drake Cannan,Xiaobo Yin, Roberto Morandotti, Zhigang Chen, and Xiang Zhang,  "Nonparaxial Mathieu and Weber accelerating beams",  Phys. Rev. Lett.109, 193901 (2012)  (cover story)  (Highlighted by Nature Photonics)
  

• Tongcang Li, Simon Kheifets, Mark G. Raizen, “Millikelvin cooling of an optically trappedmicrosphere in vacuum”,  Nature Physics,7, 527 (2011)

• Tongcang Li, S. Kheifets, D. Medellin, and M. G. Raizen,  “Measurement of the instantaneous velocity of a Brownian particle”, Science, 328,1673 (2010)
  

• K. Henderson, H. Kelkar, B. Gutierrez Medina, T. C. Li, M. G. Raizen,  "Experimental study ofthe role of atomic interactions on quantum transport",  Phys. Rev. Lett.  96, 150401(2006)