Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize)

For the 2024 OCPA Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize), the OCPA awards committee has carefully reviewed the many excellent nominations and concluded to award two winners:"

  • Dr. Xiong-Jun Liu (Peking University)
    For his fundamental breakthrough in the quantum simulation of synthetic gauge fields and topological phases with ultracold atoms, and in the discovery of symmetry-protected non-Abelian statistics of Majorana modes.
  • Dr. Hong Yao (Tsinghua University)
    For his pioneering research in exotic superconductivity and quantum spin liquids, spacetime supersymmetry at quantum criticality, and quantum Monte Carlo simulation with Majorana representation.

The winners were selected by the following panel (in alphabetical order):

  • Chang, Albert M. (Duke University)
  • Feng, Dong-Lai (University of Science and Technology of China) 
  • Feng, Jonathan (University of California, Irvine)
  • Han, Tao (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Liu, W. Vincent (University of Pittsburgh) 
  • Young, Kenneth (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  • Zhong, Dongping (Ohio State University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

 

Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Ardentec Prize)
* The name of OYRA award was changed from Macronix Prize to Ardentec Prize since 2022 with a change in sponsorship. 

For the 2024 OCPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Ardentec Prize), the OCPA awards committee has carefully reviewed all cases and concluded to award a single winner:

The winner was selected by the following panel (in alphabetical order):

  • Gao, Xuan (Case Western Reserve University)
  • Lee, Patrick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Peng, Jen-Chieh (The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Tye, Henry (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & Cornell University)
  • Wen, Xiao-Gang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Xu, Nu (Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division)
  • Ye, Jun (University of Colorado Boulder / JILA)
  • Yeh, Nai-Chang (California Institute of Technology)

 

Outstanding Dissertation Award (ODA)

For the 2024 OCPA Outstanding Dissertation Award, the OCPA awards committee has carefully reviewed all cases and concluded to award a single winner:

  • Dr. Yue Hu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
    For his outstanding contribution in revealing complex magnetic field structure in turbulent space using innovative statistic technique detailed in his dissertation "The Cosmic Symphony: Magnetic Fields and Turbulence Across Clouds, Galaxies, to Galaxy Clusters".

The winner was selected by the following panel (in alphabetical order):

  • Bao, Lei (The Ohio State University) 
  • Chan, Moses (Pennsylvania State University)
  • Chen, Jianping (Jefferson Lab)
  • Lai, Dong (Cornell University)
  • Lu, Zhengtian (University of Science and Technology of China)
  • Phua, Kok-Khoo (National Singapore University)
  • Shen, Yuen-Ron (University of California, Berkeley) 
  • Xu, Cenke (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  • Zhang, Fuchun (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

 

We congratulate all awardees with admiration and acknowledge the generous support for the AAA (Robert T. Poe Prize) from Dr. Tu-Nan Chang and his family (University of Southern California), the OYRA (Ardentec Prize) from Ardentec Corporation, and the ODA from Dr. Cheng Chin (University of Chicago). 

 

Report prepared by
W. Vincent Liu
Chair of OCPA Awards Committee
1/3/2025

 

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