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General Information

Full Name Yiqi Wang (ɪ-tʃɪ wɔŋ)
Languages English (Fluent), Chinese (Native)

Education

  • 2017-2023
    Ph.D.
    Yale University, New Haven, USA
    • Applied Physics Department
    • Ph.D. Candidacy Advisor : Prof. Jack. G. E. Harris
    • Quantum Optomechanics and Quantum Metrology
  • 2013-2017
    B.Sc.
    Fudan University, Shanghai, China
    • Physics Department
    • Exchanging at Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2016 Fall
    • Honors Student Award in Physics In National Top Undergraduate Training Program
    • Outstanding Graduates in Shanghai

Experience

  • 2023 - Now
    HQI Postdoctoral Fellow
    Physics Department, Harvard University; Harvard Quantum Initiative
  • 2017 - 2023
    Research Assistant
    Physics Department, Yale University
  • 2019 - 2020
    Teaching Fellow
    Physics Department, Yale University

Honors and Awards

  • 2023
    • Harvard Quantum Initiative Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2023
    • Yale Graduate Travel Fellowship
  • 2017
    • Yale Graduate Fellowship
  • 2017
    • Outstanding Graduates in Shanghai
  • 2015
    • XUEERSI Scholarship for Outstanding Student
  • 2014
    • 1st Prize, China Undergraduate Mathematics Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)

Professional Service

  • 2023
    2023 APS March Meeting (Las Vegas) Session (N65) Chair
    American Physical Society
  • 2022-2023
    Yale Graduate Student Ambassadors
    Yale Physics Department
  • 2022
    Yale-NUS Alumni Mentor
    Yale-NUS College

Teaching

  • 2020 Spring
    PHYS 201 Fundamental Physics
    GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT FELLOW
    • Lead introductory physics lecture discussions, grade homework and exams.
  • 2019 Fall
    PHYS 508 Quantum Mechanics I
    GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT FELLOW
    • This is a graduate level course. My works include leading group discussions, holding office hours, grading homework and making solution manuals.
  • 2017-2023
    Yale Undergradute Research Project
    UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH INSTRUCTOR
    • Mentored several undergraduate students for Yale undergraduate research projects.

Academic Interests

  • Quantum Optomechanics
    • Explore potential applications for hybrid optomechanics
    • Manipulate and measure mechanical resonators in quantum regime
  • Quantum Sensing/Metrology
    • Quantum-enhanced sensitivity - Dark matter search - Gravitional wave measurement
    • Quantum metrology advantages
  • Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena
    • Explore the quantum theory in macroscopic scales
    • Quantum gravity phenomenology

Talk/Poster Presentation

  • 2023 Nov
    Interfacing Mechanical Resonators with Spin Qubits
    MURI Kickoff Workshop, New Haven
  • 2023 Aug
    Manipulating and Measuring States of a Superfluid Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime
    Yale, New Haven
  • 2023 March
    Magnetic Levitation of Helium-3 Drops
    APS March Meeting, Las Vegas
  • 2023 Jan
    Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime
    McGill and University de Sherbrooke, Quebec
  • 2023 Jan
    Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime
    JILA, Boulder
  • 2022 Dec
    Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime
    Harvard Quantum Initiative QuantumFest, Cambridge
  • 2022 Oct
    Quantum Mechanics In a Macroscopic World
    Science In The News, New Haven
  • 2022 July
    Manipulating and Measuring States of an Optomechanical Resonator in the Quantum Regime
    International Conference on Atomic Physics, Toronto
  • 2022 June
    Optomechanics with Magnetically Levitated Helium-4 Drops
    Gordon Research Conference, Ventura
  • 2022 March
    Experimental Test of Quantum Gravity Induced Non-locality Using a Liquid Helium Filled Cavity
    APS March Meeting, Chicago
  • 2021
    Measurement of Non-classical Photon-Phonon States in a Superfluid Optomechanical System
    APS March Meeting, Virtual; NONGAUSS Workshop
  • 2019 Nov
    Quantum Optomechanics in a Levitated 4He Drop
    YQI Talk, New Haven