Min Xiao

Biography

Min Xiao received his BS degree in 1982 from Nanjing University and went to US through the CUSPEA Program. He was awarded his PH.D in Physics from the Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin in 1988 and spent two years as Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. Dr. Xiao became an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas in 1990. He was promoted to the Full Professor rank in 1998, and to the rank of Distinguished Professor in 2004. In 2006, he was appointed to the position of the Twenty-First Century Endowed Chair in Nanotechnology. Professor Min Xiao received the US National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994. In 1998, he received the University Alumni Distinguished Research Award. Professor Xiao was elected to the Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Fellow of the Optical Society of America, both in 2004. He served as the Program Co-Chair (2005) and General Co-Chair (2007) of the Conference of Laser and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Sciences (QELS). In 1998, Professor Xiao received the Oversea Distinguished Young Research Award (B-type) from the China National Science Foundation and, in 2005, the Changjiang Lecture Scholar from the Ministry of Education of China. By the end of 2008, Professor Xiao was selected to be among the first group in the “One-thousand Talents Plan” through Nanjing University.

Research Interest

Professor Xiao’s research interests span over a broad range of areas, including quantum optics, nonlinear optics, atomic physics, ultrafast optics, and nanoscience and nanotechnologies.