Yu Yang  Lab Director

Yu Yang was born in 1968. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the Department of Physics at Nanjing University in 1990. In 1997, he pursued doctoral studies in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas (USA), focusing on research into superconducting qubits, and was awarded his PhD in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he continued his work on superconducting qubits as a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.In 2005, he returned to China to take up a position as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the Department of Physics at Nanjing University, having been appointed a Distinguished Professor under the Ministry of Education’s Changjiang Scholars Award Program. He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2007.Professor Yu’s research achievements include several notable breakthroughs: in 2002, he was the first to experimentally observe quantum coherent oscillations in superconducting phase qubits; in 2010, he led the demonstration of quantum coherent control of three solid-state qubits. His work has also documented macroscopic quantum phenomena in superconducting qubits, such as Mach-Zehnder interference in macroscopic quantum systems, Landau-Zener interference of quantum geometric phases, and quantum jumps, as well as the simulation of topological band structures using qubits.He has published over 100 SCI-indexed papers, including 3 in Science, 1 in Nature Communications, and 9 in Physical Review Letters, alongside more than 40 papers in other leading international physics journals. He has led numerous key research initiatives, including national key R&D programs, the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Major Scientific Research Program, major research programs of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Jiangsu Provincial Climbing Program, and integrated research projects.