Convocation Newsletter, Summer 2018

Professor Xiang Zhang The University of Hong Kong President and Vice-Chancellor (2018 - ) Elected Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences Elected Member of US National Academy of Engineering Elected Member of Academia Sinica Fellow of The American Physical Society (APS) Fellow of The Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow of The International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE) Previous appointments at University of California, Berkeley Inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chair Professor Director of Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (SINAM) Director of Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Awards & Honours A.C. Eringen Medal from Society of Engineering Science Pearsall Distinguished Lecture at Duke, Hall Engineering Lecture at Vanderbilt, and Towers Distinguished Lecturer at Michigan Tech Max Born Award from Optical Society of America Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award Fitzroy Medal from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers William Reynolds Lecturer at Stanford University Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship by Materials Research Society (MRS) Miller Professorship by UC Berkeley Distinguished Visiting Scientist by the University of Toronto Rohsenow Lecturer at MIT TIME Magazine “Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Year” and “50 Best Inventions of the Year” Chancellor’s Professorship by UC Berkeley ONR Young Investigator Award SME Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Engineer Award NSF CAREER Award Education PhD, University of California, Berkeley MS, University of Minnesota MS/BS, Nanjing University AN INVENTOR’S JOURNEY