Draft:Hailing Wang

Hailin Wang (born about 1963) is a physicist on the faculty of the University of Oregon who researches experimental condensed matter physics. He studies optical interactions in artificially engineered semiconductor nanostructures. His interests also include "quantum optics with spins, excitons, and nanomechanical oscillators, quantum information processing."

Early life and education
Hailin Wang received a B.S. degree in physics in 1982 from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, and he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1990. His dissertation, titled High-resolution nonlinear laser spectroscopy of exciton relaxation in gallium arsenide semiconductors, was advised by Duncan Steel.

Career
Wang served as research investigator at the University of Michigan and then as a staff consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Wang joined the UO faculty in 1995. He holds the Alec and Kay Keith Chair in Physics.

Wang's research on optical interactions has included artificially engineered semiconductor nanostructures. He has researched electromagnetically induced transparency, showing that an opaque semiconductor material can be made transparent using "quantum mechanical interface processes". Understanding these optical processes may lead to alternative ways information is processed, transmitted and stored.

Wang has served as principal investigator for two National Science Foundation grants: Cavity QED of Spins in Diamond via Dark States, and Mechanically Mediated Spin Entanglement in Diamond.

As director of the Oregon Center for Optics, Wang also led efforts to expand optics education beyond the physics curriculum, including an optics internship at the master's level, as well as a summer Optics Camp for middle- and high-school students.

Wangs serves on the Executive Committee of the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society.

Awards, honors

 * 2020 NSF Career Award
 * 2006 American Physical Society Fellow, cited "for contributions to the study of coherent optical processes in semiconductors, especially the pioneering experimental work on electromagnetically induced transparency via exciton correlations."
 * 2005 Fellow of the Optical Society of America, cited "for research on quantum optical processes in semiconductors, in particular electromagnetically induced transparency via exciton correlations, and cavity QED with nanocrystals".
 * 2009 Oregon Faculty ExcellenceAward