Prof. Dr. Jian-Ping Wang

Dr. Jian-Ping Wang received his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Lanzhou University in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Institute of Physics, CAS, in 1995. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore in 1996. Currently, he is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Robert F. Hartmann Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota. His primary research interests include nanomagnetism and quantum spintronics, with a focus on searching, fundamentally understanding, and fabricating novel magnetic materials and quantum spintronic devices. For his contributions to magnetic material and spintronic devices for magnetic recording, information processing, and biomedical applications, he was elected as the IEEE fellow in 2015. For his outstanding contributions to the synthesis and fundamental understanding of magnetic and spintronic materials and to the fabrication of devices for applications in computing, he was elected as the American Physical Society (APS) fellow in 2020. He was also elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2021. He received the Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) Achievement Award in 2006 and the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award in 2019. He is the 2024 recipient of the IEEE Magnetic Society Achievement Award, the highest honor in magnetics.