1.67 million bonus! Quantum scientist Jiang Liang wins again
On June 1, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences announced the 31 recipients of the 2022 Blavatnik National Young Scientist Award, the world's largest unrestricted award that honors early Occupational scientists and engineers.
Three categories of winners in the fields of life sciences, chemistry and physical science and engineering will receive their awards on June 29, and each will receive the Blavatnik National Prize of $250,000 (about 1.67 million yuan). The winners were selected from 309 nominees from 150 top universities and scientific institutions in 38 U.S. states. Winners must be faculty-level researchers under the age of 42 and nominated by their university or research institution for the competition.
Established in 2007 by the Blavatnik Family Foundation and independently administered by the New York Academy of Sciences, the Blavatnik Young Scientist Award was originally created to recognize outstanding regional scientific talent in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The Blavatnik National Award was first awarded in 2014 and expanded to the UK and Israel in 2017. The award will award a total of $13.6 million through the end of 2022.
Previous winners have helped develop COVID-19 vaccines and diagnostics, identify sustainable energy and battery technologies, combat climate change through new technologies such as next-generation photovoltaics and sustainable new materials, and find treatments for intractable diseases. Many of them were also elected to the National Academy of Sciences or elected to the MacArthur Foundation.
Among all 31 winners, 10 were selected from the fields of life science and chemistry, and 11 were selected from the field of physical science and engineering. Among them, 7 were Chinese, including Jiang Liang, a theoretical physicist who studies quantum information science at the University of Chicago. His reasons for winning the award for:
Dr. Liang Jiang is a theoretical physicist in the field of quantum information science who is harnessing the properties of quantum mechanics and the power of computer science and mathematics to advance quantum computing, data security, and quantum communications. In quantum computing, errors are barriers to accuracy and computational advantage. He is exploring innovative ways to scale imperfect (fault-tolerant) quantum machines. He is developing important theoretical frameworks and quantum protocols that will make the most promising quantum computing hardware technologies - such as superconducting quantum bits (qubits) - controllable and error-aware. He is bridging the huge gap between theoretical computer science and the necessary, scalable quantum hardware approaches necessary to make quantum computing advantageous and successful.
Jiang Liang
This is another award for Professor Jiang Liang after the American Physical Society (APS) 2022 "Randall-Bennett Quantum Computing Award". Last October, APS awarded the Randall-Bennett Prize in Quantum Computing to Jiang Liang for "significant contributions to the field of theoretical quantum information science, with a focus on developing new error-correction strategies that can Advanced experimental platform-compatible ways improve performance and lay a new foundation for fault-tolerant and practical quantum communications, computing, and sensing."
It is worth mentioning that Jiang Liang was in the group photo of the 28th Solvay Physics Conference held in May. For the first time in the history of this Solvay Conference, the theme was "Quantum Information Physics". ”, Jiang Liang attended the conference as an outstanding representative in the field of quantum information science.
Fifth row, first from left: Jiang Liang
About the Blavatnik Family Foundation
Founded by American billionaire Len Blavatnik, Len is the founder and chairman of Access Industries, a holding group whose main investment projects are chemistry, media, communications and real estate, and is also the owner of Warner Music Group. Ryan Blavatnick is ranked 46th on the 2021 Forbes Global Rich List with $32 billion.
