Short Bio
Shiwei Zhang grew up in rural China in Henan province. He obtained
a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology
of China in 1988, and came to the US via the CUSPEA (China-US Physics
Examination and Application) program organized by
Prof. T.D. Lee. He received
a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1993. He was a Postdoctoral
Research Associate, jointly in the Theoretical Condensed Matter and the Nuclear
Theory groups, at Los Alamos National Lab for two years, and then an NSF
CISE Postdoctoral Fellow and a University Postdoctoral Fellow
at Ohio State University for almost one year. He has been a faculty member at
William & Mary since 1996, where he
is now Chancellor Professor of Physics. In 2018, he took up a joint appointment
with the
Flatiron Institute
of the Simons Foundation,
where he is Senior Research Scientist/Group Leader at the
Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ).