EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

2004-2009, Ph.D., Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus

1999-2003, B.Sc., Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS:

2016-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University

2011-2016, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

2009-2011, Joint Quantum Institute, Physics Frontier Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland

HONORS AND AWARDS:

• The Best Paper Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA), Optical Lattice Emulator(OLE) program, U.S.A. (2010)
• One of the four finalists of Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics, American Physical Society (2010)

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Shao-Liang Zhang, and Qi Zhou, Manipulating Novel Quantum Phenomena Using Synthetic Gauge Fields, invited Topic Review, Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 50 (22), 222001 (2017)
• Li-Jun Lang, Shao-Liang Zhang, K. T. Law, and Qi Zhou, Weyl Points and Topological Nodal Superfluids in a Face-centered Cubic Optical Lattice, Phys. Rev. B 96, 035145 (2017).
• Ming-Yuan He, Shao-Liang Zhang, and Qi Zhou, Contact Matrix in Dilute Quantum Systems , Phys. Rev. A, 95, 062702 (2017).
• Shao-Liang Zhang, and Qi Zhou, A two-leg Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chain with Glide Re- flection Symmetry, Phys. Rev. A 95, 061601 (2017).
• Li-Jun Lang, Shao-Liang Zhang, and Qi Zhou, Nodal Brillouin Zone Boundary from Folding a Chern Insulator , Phys. Rev. A 95, 053615 (2017).
• Lianghui Huang, Zengming Meng, Pengjun Wang, Peng Peng, Shao-Liang Zhang, Liangchao Chen, Donghao Li, Qi Zhou, and Jing Zhang, Experimental Realization of a Two-Dimensional Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling in Ultracold Fermi Gases, Nature Physics,12, 540 (2016).
• Ming-Yuan He, Shao-Liang Zhang, Hon Ming Chan, and Qi Zhou, Concept of Contact Spectrum and Its Applications in Atomic Quantum Hall States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 045301 (2016)
• Shao-Liang Zhang, Li-Jun Lang, and Qi Zhou, Chiral d-wave Superfluid in Periodically Driven Lattices, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 225301 (2015).
• Hoi Chun Po, and Qi Zhou, A Two-dimensional Algebraic Quantum Liquid Produced by an Atomic Simulator of the Quantum Lifshitz Model, Nature Communications 6:8012 (2015).
• Y.-Y. Chen, Y.-Z. Jiang, X.-W. Guan, and Qi Zhou, Critical Behaviours of Contact near Phase Transitions, Nature Communications, 5:5140 (2014).
• Shaoliang Zhang, and Qi Zhou, Shaping Topological Properties of the Band Structures in a Shaken Optical Lattice,Phys. Rev. A 90, 051601(R) (2014)
• Hoi Chun Po, Weiqiang Chen, and Qi Zhou, Non-Luttinger Quantum Liquid of One- Dimensional Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bosons, Phys. Rev. A 90, 011602(R) (2014).
• Qi Zhou, and Xiaoling Cui, Fate of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Presence of Spin- Orbit Coupling, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 140407 (2013).

SELECTED INVITED CONFERENCE and WORKSHOP TALKS:

• Crystalline symmetry in topological quantum states of ultracold atoms, Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, Sacramento, U.S.A. (2017)
• Glueing and splitting monopoles, From Static to Dynamical Gauge Fields with Ultra- cold Atoms, Florence, Italy (2017)
• Contact: from a Scalar to a Matrix, Midwestern Cold Atom Workshop, Chicago (2016)
• Closing Band Gaps in Optical Lattices, Synthetic Topological Quantum Matter, Beijing (2016)
• Contact and Contact Spectrum in Dilute Quantum Systems, Topological Phases in Condensed Matter and Cold Atomic Systems, Hong Kong (2015)
• Topological Matters of Ultracold Atoms in Periodically Driven Lattices, Gordon Research Conference on Topological and Correlated Matter, Hong Kong (2015)
• Topological Matters in Periodically Driven Lattices, Sino-German Symposium on Frontier of Quantum Information and Quantum Simulation, Heidelberg, Germany (2015)
• Two-dimensional Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling, Aspen Workshop on Ultra-Cold Quantum Matter with Atoms and Molecules, Aspen, U.S.A. (2015)
• Unconventional Quantum Phenomena of Ultracold Atoms with Synthetic Gauge Fields, Frontier in Quantum Simulation with Cold Atoms, Seattle, U.S.A. (2015)
• Accessing Unconventional Quantum Phenomena Using Synthetic Gauge Fields, Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, Columbus, U.S.A. (2015)
• Shaping Single-particle Spectra of Ultracold Atoms for Accessing Novel Quantum Many- Body Phenomena, Danish-Sino Workshop on Strongly Interacting Cold Atomic Gases, Denmark (2014)
• Tracing Unconventional Quantum Many-Body Phenomena from Flattened Dispersions of Ultra Cold Atoms, KITPC Program on Precision Many-Body Physics of Strongly Correlated Quantum Matter, Beijing, China (2014)
• Non-Luttinger Quantum Liquid of One-dimensional Spin-orbit Coupled Bosons, Aspen Workshop on Optical Lattices and Beyond, Aspen, U.S.A. (2013)
• The Fate of Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Presence of Spin-orbit Coupling, NORDITA Workshop on Pushing the Boundaries with Cold Atoms, Stockholm, Sweden (2013)
• The Fate of Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Presence of Spin-orbit Coupling, Interna- tional Conference on Frontiers of Cold Atoms and Related Topics, Hong Kong (2012)
• The Fate of Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Presence of Spin-orbit Coupling, Asia- Pacific Workshop on Condensed Matter Physics, Hong Kong (2012)
• Overcoming the Grand Challenges in Quantum Simulations, Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, American Physical Society, Hous- ton, U.S.A. (2010)
• Bosons in a Double-well Potential: Understanding the Interplay between Disorder and Interaction, DARPA Optical Lattice Emulator review meeting, Houston, U.S.A. (2010)

ACADEMIC SERVICE:

• Croucher Summer Course on “Ultracold Atom Physics”, Overseas Director, (2018/2020)
• Croucher Summer Course on “Ultracold Atom Physics”, Director, (2016)
• Hong Kong Forum 2015: Novel Quantum States and their Manipulations, Organizer, January (2016)
• Summer School and Mini Workshop on Cold Atoms, Hong Kong, Organizer, June (2014)
• Mini workshop on Cold Atom Research in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Organizer, October (2013)
• International Conference on Frontiers of Cold Atoms and Related Topics, Hong Kong, Organizer, May (2012)

JOURNAL REVIEWS:

Reports on Progress in Physics , Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A , New Journal of Physics, European Physics Letters, Journal of Physics B, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, Journal of the Optical Society of America B

SERVICE TO GRANTING AGENCIES:

• Reviewer, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada