Ying-Cheng Lai
| Ying-Cheng Lai | |
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| Born | Ying-Cheng Lai |
| Fields | Math and Physics (theoretical) |
| Institutions | University of Maryland, College Park |
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Ying-Cheng Lai is a Chinese theoretical physicist who works in the area of chaos theory. He is one among the pioneers in the nonlinear and complex systems and chaos theory. Currently he works in Arizona State University holding an ISS Chair Professorship.
Research areas
Ying-Cheng Lai has worked in the fields of dynamics of nonlinear and complex systems including chaotic dynamics, relativistic quantum chaotic dynamics, complex networks, computational biology and graphene physics. He has coauthored several scientific articles with Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, James A. Yorke and Miguel A. F. Sanjuán. He has directed 14 Ph.D. and 20 master theses and supported 12 post-doctoral fellows.
Awards
In 1997, From the White House, he had received the Air Force Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) . Also in the same year the National Science Foundation honored him with a Faculty Career Award. In 2008, he received the Outstanding Referee Award from the American Physical Society.
Books
- Ying-Cheng Lai and Tamas Tel Transient Chaos: complex dynamics in finite time scales, Springer.