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CHONG Yidong

Professor
Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
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Researcher-ID: E-1375-2012 | Orcid-ID: 0000-0002-8649-7884 | Google Scholar page

Education

• Ph.D. (Physics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005—2008.
  Thesis: “Two classes of unconventional photonic crystals.”
  Ph.D. Advisor: Marin Soljačić.
• B.Sc. (Physics), and B.Sc. (Mathematical and Computational Sciences), Stanford University, 1999—2003.
  Departmental honors (Physics).
  Undergraduate thesis: “Metallic Nature of the Four-dimensional Quantum Hall Edge.”
  

Positions

• Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 2024—present.
  
• Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 2018—2024.
  
• Nanyang Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, 2012—2018.
  
• Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University, 2008—2011.
  Postdoctoral Advisor: A. Douglas Stone.

Awards, etc.

• Nanyang Reseach Award, 2021
• President's Science Award, 2020
• Nanyang Education Award (College), 2019
• Nanyang Education Award (School), 2016
• SPMS Young Researcher Award, 2015
• National Research Foundation Fellowship, Class of 2012. [NRF Press Release]
• Reviewer for Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review B, Physical Review E, Physical Review X, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Journal of Quantum Electronics, Journal of Optics, Europhysics Letters, European Physical Journal D, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Scientific Reports and Modern Physics Letters B.
• Co-maintainer of GNU Emacs, 2008—2012.