Shengwang Du

Deputy Director
Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI)
 
Professor
Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
501 Northwestern Ave.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 765-494-3483
Email: dusw_at_purdue.edu
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Research Interests

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Physics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Networks, Quantum Computing, Optical Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence, Optical Microscopy, and Bioimaging.
 

Appointments

  • 03/2025 - Present, Deputy Director, Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI), Purdue University.
  • 01/01/2025 - Present, Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University.
  • 04/01/2024 - 12/31/2024, Adjunct Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University.
  • 09/27/2022 - 12/31/2024, Francis S. and Maurine G. Johnson Chair, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
  • 01/01/2021 - 12/31/2024, Professor, Department of Physics, UTD.
  • 07/01/2017 - 12/31/2020, Professor, Department of Physics & Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
  • 01/01/2013 - 06/30/2017, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, HKUST.
  • 04/01/2015 - 06/30/2017, Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Engineering, HKUST.
  • 07/30/2008 - 12/31/2012, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, HKUST.
  • 02/20/2020 - 12/31/2020; Director; 01/07/2016 - 19/02/2020, Associate Director, SSCI-IAS Super-Resolution Imaging Center, HKUST.
  • 06/15/2023 - Present, Co-Founder & Chairman of Board, Light Innovation Technology (LiT) USA.
  • 01/01/2022 - Present, Co-Founder & Chairman of Board, Light Innovation Technology (LiT) International.
  • 06/27/2016 - Present, Co-Founder & Chairman of Board, Light Innovation Technology (LiT) Ltd.
  • 04/12/2013 - 12/31/2023, Co-Founder, NanoBioImaging (NBI) Ltd., Hong Kong.
  • 01/01/2017 - 06/302017, Visiting Fellow, JILA, University of Colorado Boulder.
  • 06/20/2005 - 07/2008, Postdoctoral Scholar, S. E. Harris group, Edward L. Ginzton laboratory, Stanford University.
  • 05/06/2005 - 06/19/2005, Postdoctoral Research Associate, D. Z. Anderson group, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Educations

  • 08/1999 - 05/2005, PhD, Physics (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
Thesis : Atom-chip Bose-Einstein condensation in a portable vacuum cell
Advisor: Prof. Dana Z. Anderson
 
  • 01/2002 - 12/2002, MS, Electrical Engineering (Optics), Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Advisor: Prof. Frank Barnesd

  • 09/1996 - 07/1999, MS, Physics (Condensed Matter Physics: Superconducting Electronics), Department of Physics, Peking University, China.
Thesis : Paring symmetry of order parameter in high temperature superconductors and the phase measurement.
Advisor: Prof. Yuandong Dai
 
  • 09/1992 - 07/1996, BS, Electrical Engineering (Electronics & Information Systems), Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China.
Thesis : 1. A low power 80C31 micro-controller system: a complete development of portable device for measuring diamond hardness. (Advisor: Prof. Minhua Fan). 
2. The Monte-Carlo simulation for Si micro-strip detectors & Electron Pair Scattering.(Advisor: Prof. Ming Qi)
 
  • 02/1994 - 07/1995, Minor (or secondary) degree in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China.

Honors

  • Fellow, The American Physical Society (APS, 2019).
  • Fellow, Optica (formerly The Optical Society - OSA, 2019).
  • Alumni Member 2025 - Present; Elected Member 2020-2025, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences (YASHK).
  • 2011 School of Science Research Award, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).
  • 04/2005, Equity and Excellence Award (for outstanding service to the university community and commitment to promoting the principles of academic excellence, cultural pluralism and diversity in higher education), Office of Diversity, Equity & Community Engagement, University of Colorado Boulder. For more information, see link.

Publications

See group publications.

Professinal Service

  • Editorial Board: Associate Editor, Optics Express, 06/2021 - Present.
  • Editorial Board, Photonics, MDPI, 01/2021 - Present.
  • Editorial Board (Topical Editor), Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics (JOSA B), 12/2013 - 31/12/2019.
  • Technical Program Committee, SIGCOMM Workshop on Quantum Networks and Distributed Quantum Computing (QuNet 2023).
  • Technical Program Committee, IEEE INFOCOM 2024.
  • Reviewer for DOE Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) grants.
  • Reviewer for AFOSR research grants.
  • Reviewer for the Office of SBIR/STTR Programs, DOE Office of Science.
  • Reviewer for NSF Engineering Research Centers (ERC), Virtual Site Visit Review Center for Quantum Networks (CQN) Year 2 Review, September 28-30, 2021.
  • Reviewer for National Science Centre, Poland, 2022.
  • Reviewer for journals: Physical Review Letters (PRL), Physical Review A (PRA), Physical Review Applied (PRApplied), Nature, Nature Physics, Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, Optics Letters (OL), Optics Express, Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSAB), Optics Communications, Review of Scientific Instruments, New Journal of Physics, Europhysics Letters (EPL), European Physical Journal D (EPJD), International Journal of Physical Sciences, Nanotechnology, Solid State Communication (SSC), Chinese Physics Letters (CPL), Semiconductor Science and Technology, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, IEEE Photonics, Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP), International Laser Physics Letters, Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), Quantum Science and Technology (QST), IEEE Communications Magazine, Photonics Journal, and Annalen der Physik.
  • Organizing Committee, The 10th international Workshop on Solid-State Quantum Computing, Hong Kong, 18-20 November, 2019.
  • Organizing Committee, Quantum Summit - Hong Kong 2019, 21-23 November, 2019.
  • Local Organizing Committee, International Conference on Emerging Quantum Technology, Hefei, China, 15-20 September, 2019.
  • Subcommittee (Track 9: Quantum Photonics and Applications), Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2018, Hangzhou, China, 26-29 October, 2018.
  • Advisory Committee, International Symposium on Cold Atom Physics (ISCAP), China, 2016-present.
  • Program Committee, The 8th International Symposium on Cold Atom Physics (ISCAP-VIII), 2018.
  • Session Chair/Presider, Session: Quantum State Generation and Characterization (FW4E), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, California, USA, 14-19 May 2017.
  • Advisory Committee, International Symposium on Cold Atom Physics (ISCAP), China, 2016-present.
  • Program Committee, The 7th International Symposium on Cold Atom Physics (ISCAP), 2016.
  • Co-Chair: Organizing Committee & Chair: Academic Committee, 17th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), 2015-2016.
  • The 35th Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) 2014: Organizer and Chair of session SC3: Quantum Optics.
  • Council member, The Chinese Association of Young Scientists and Technologists, 2014-present.
  • Council member, Association of Mainland Overseas Returned Scholars in Hong Kong, 2013-2015.
  • Council member, The Physical Society of Hong Kong, 2014-present.
  • Organizing Committee, Conference on Molecular, Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics (MANPP), Beijing, China, 14-16 August 2013.
  • Hong Kong Forum of Physics 2013: Novel Quantum Systems, 12-14 December 2013, Organizing Committee.
  • Hong Kong Forum of Physics 2012: Frontiers of Quantum Science and Technology, 12-13 December 2012, Organizing Committee.
  • Hong Kong Forum of Physics 2011: Novel Quantum Phenomena, 14-16 Dec 2011, Organizing Committee.
  • The 14th Conference of The Physical Society of Hong Kong, 11 June 2011, Organizing Committee.
  • Member of Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids Subcommittee for the CLEO:QELS 2011.
  • Session Chair for Optics, the 3rd Guangdong - Hong Kong Joint Workshop on Physics, 2010.
  • Reviewer for Hong Kong RGC SRFDP & ERG JRS proposals.
  • Reviewer for NSF AMO and QIS programs.
  • Reviewer for Georgian NSF.
  • Reviewer for Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
  • Reviewer for Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
  • Session Chair, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, California, January 19-24, 2008.
  • Council Member, Physical Society of Hong Kong (PSHK), 2012-2014.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Physical Society (APS): Fellow (2019).
  • The Optical Society (OSA): Fellow (2019).
  • The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences: Elected Member 2020-2025; Alumni Member 2025-Present.
  • Physics Society of Hong Kong (PSHK): 2008-2020
  • The Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Member.