Chinese-American physicist and mechanical engineer
"Zhang Xiang" redirects here. For the footballer, see Zhang Xiang (footballer).
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.
Xiang Zhang
Zhang in 2018
16th Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Hong Kong
Incumbent
Assumed office July 2018
Chancellor
Carrie Lam John Lee Ka-chiu
Preceded by
Peter Mathieson
Personal details
Born
December 1963 (age 60) Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Nationality
American
Alma mater
Nanjing University (BS, MS)
University of Minnesota (MS)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Occupation
Academic administrator
Profession
Materials scientist, optical engineer, physicist
Known for
Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Year, Time Magazine (2008)
50 Best Inventions of the Year, Time Magazine (2008)
Top 10 Breakthroughs, Physics World (2019)
Awards
NSF CAREER Award (1997)
SME Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (1998)
ONR Young Investigator Award (1999)
Fitzroy Medal (2014)
Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (2015)
Max Born Award, Optical Society of America (2016)
Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (2016)
Excellence Award in Scientific Leadership (2016)
A. C. Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science (2017)
SPIE Mozi Award (2021)
Xiang Zhang
Simplified Chinese
张翔
Traditional Chinese
張翔
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhāng Xiáng
ZhangXiangJP (Chinese: 张翔; pinyin: Zhāng Xiáng; born December 1963) is a Chinese-American physicist, mechanical engineer, and academic administrator. He has been serving as the 16th and current president and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong since July 2018.
Zhang was the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States, the director of the National Science Foundation Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center, the director of materials science division, and a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[1]
^"Professor Xiang Zhang (Brief Biography)". Retrieved June 1, 2021.
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