Achievement in Asia Award (Robert T. Poe Prize)

For the 2025 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. Zhengcheng Gu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
    For discovery and the systematic understanding of symmetry protected topological order and interacting topological phases.
  • Dr. Haohua Wang (Zhejiang University)
    For seminal contributions to experimental superconducting quantum devices and quantum simulation.

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) 
  • Gao, Xuan (Case Western Reserve University)
  • Han, Tao (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Lee, Patrick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
  • Liu, Chen-Yu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Wu, Congjun (Westlake 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 2025 OCPA Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Ardentec Prize), the OCPA awards committee has carefully reviewed all cases and concluded to award a single winner:

  • Dr. Norman Yao (Harvard University)  
    For seminal experimental and theoretical contributions at the interface between condensed matter and atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

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

  • Chin, Cheng (University of Chicago)
  • Gao, Xuan (Case Western Reserve University)
  • Peng, Jen-Chieh (The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • Wen, Xiao-Gang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Xu, Nu (Berkeley Lab's Nuclear Science Division)
  • Yeh, Nai-Chang (California Institute of Technology)

 

Outstanding Dissertation Award (ODA)

For the 2025 OCPA Outstanding Dissertation Award, the OCPA awards committee has carefully reviewed all cases and concluded to award a single winner:

  • Dr. Shixiong Yin (CUNY Advanced Science Research Center)
    For his original and significant contributions to the field of wave physics and nanophotonics detailed in his outstanding dissertation “Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions in Complex Photonic Systems”.

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

  • 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 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
Xuan Gao
Chair of OCPA Awards Committee
1/14/2026

 

 

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