Hong Yao 
Tsinghua University
Citation: For his pioneering research in exotic superconductivity and quantum spin liquids, spacetime supersymmetry at quantum criticality, and quantum Monte Carlo simulation with Majorana representation.
Bio: Hong Yao received his B.S. from Nanjing University in 2001, M.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 2004, and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2009 under Prof. Steven Kivelson. After doing postdoctoral research first at UC Berkeley with Prof. Dung-Hai Lee and then at Stanford University with Prof. Shou-Cheng Zhang from 2009 to 2012, he joined Tsinghua University as a faculty member in 2012 and was promoted to a tenured full professor in 2017. Hong Yao has made notable contributions to the theory of exotic superconductivity, exactly solvable models for quantum spin liquid such as the Yao-Kivelson model and Yao-Lee model, emergent spacetime supersymmetry at quantum criticality in quantum many-body systems, quantum Monte Carlo with Majorana fermion representation, and quantum computation algorithms. Hong Yao was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2018), the Daniel Tsui Fellowship by the University of Hong Kong (2021), the Ye Qisun Prize by Chinese Physical Society (2022), and the Xplorer Prize by the New Cornerstone Science Foundation of Tencent (2023). He was elected to APS Fellow in 2021.
Website: https://www.ias.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1059/1169.htm