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Contact Information

P: 864-656-3416
E: physastr@clemson.edu

Campus Location

118 Kinard Laboratory

Hours

Monday - Friday:
8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

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Yao Wang

Physics and Astronomy

Adjunct Professor

yaowang@clemson.edu
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Educational Background

Ph.D., Applied Physics, Stanford University, 2017
B.S., Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2011

Research Interests

quantum many-body theory, quantum materials, nonequilibrium dynamics, quantum algorithms, advanced spectroscopies, high-performance computing, quantum simulations

Research Group (Lab)

The Quantum Many-Body Theory Group has moved to Emory University since 2023

Courses Taught

Methods in Theoretical Physics I (2021, 2022)
Methods in Theoretical Physics II (2021, 2022, 2023)
Quantum Computing (2022)

Honors and Awards

2025 Scialog Fellow, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
2023 Dean’s Professorship Award, College of Science, Clemson
2023 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
2022 DOE Early Career Award, Department of Energy
2021 Frontera Leadership Resource (LRAC) Award, Texas Advanced Computing Center
2019 IUCr Young Scientist Award, Inelastic X-ray Scattering Conference
2017 – 2020 MPHQ Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Science, Harvard University
2012 – 2015 Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University
2011 Guo Moruo Scholarship, University of Science and Technology of China

Links

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Contact Information

P: 864-656-3416
E: physastr@clemson.edu

Campus Location

118 Kinard Laboratory

Hours

Monday - Friday:
8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.