Columbia Quantum Initiative Research

He is one of four inaugural awardees of a new donor-supported seed fund that aims to fuel bold scientific advances in the basic sciences.

Now at Penn State, Shao completed his PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship with physicist Dmitri Basov

They are one of eight teams to receive a year of seed funding from Columbia Research for their project, "Coherent Quantum Transport Along Programmable Nanowrinkles in Two-Dimensional Materials."