Norman Yao is a professor of physics at Harvard University. His group's research interests lie at the interface between atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter, and quantum information science. Yao received his BS in physics and mathematics from Harvard University in 2009, and his PhD from Harvard in 2014; his doctoral thesis was awarded the 2015 Deborah Jin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics. Yao completed postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley as a Miller Fellow and in 2016 joined the physics department at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor. For his work, Yao has been awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, the George E. Valley Jr. Prize of the American Physical Society, a New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation, and a Simons Investigator award.
