First name

Ying-Cheng

Last name

Lai

Academic unit

Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

2021

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Bio summary

Lai is one of the world's most influential researchers in nonlinear dynamics and complex systems. He focuses on relativistic quantum chaos, a field in theoretical physics that he pioneered at the boundaries of quantum mechanics, relativity and chaos theory