Dr. Zhenghan Wang

Dr. Wang received his Ph.D. in 1993 under the direction of Field’s medalist Michael Freedman. Wang received a Sloan Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in 1992, a University of Michigan Rackham Faculty Fellowship in 1994, and an NSF Postdoc Research Fellowship from 1996-2000. Dr. Wang has co)-authored 27 publications to date, most of which deal with knots and/or topological quantum computing. Dr. Wang has been the project director of the topological quantum computing project at Indiana University since 2001.

Currently, Wang is working at Microsoft where he, Freedman, Kitaev, Nayak, and Walker are pursuing their theories on topological quantum computing. Dr. Wang and his colleagues have been responsible for many important developments in this subject area, including the result that a topological quantum computer can perform any computation that the more traditional qubit quantum computer can do.

Dr. Wang has given many invited addresses on topological quantum computing. He was an invited speaker for the UCLA Distinguished Lecture Series in 2005, and he will give an invited address at the International Workshop on Topological Computing at the Hamilton Mathematics Institute in Dublin in Sept. 2007.