I was born and raised in Nanchang, a beautiful city in the southern China. Growing up in China in the 70s left me so
much wonderful memory. I still remembered I was often dreaming to become an astronaut even
after I went to the school.
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During the middle of 80s, I fell in love with computer
(Apple-II) and spent most of my spare time on it. I was so surprised when I got the highest
score in the national contests on mathematics and computer science. Shanghai Jiaotong University, one of the best technical
universities in China, was very generous to give me the scholarship in 1987. Four years later,
I graduated from the Department of Physics. Although I have the degree in computer science, I
decided to go Physics.
After six years of study and research in
computational condensed matter physics, I finally got my Ph.D. degree from Chinese Academic of Science in 1997. Due to my excellent
work on the design of
quantum interference devices, I was rewarded the scholarship by the Head of Chinese
Academic of Science. Just before my graduation (and before China took over Hong Kong), I had a
chance to work in the University of Hong Kong as a research
assistant for half a year. I had a wonderful time in working with Dr. Jian Wang at Department of Physics. My research area there was
dynamic and nonlinear transport in mesoscopic systems.
In the autumn of 1997, I became a research associate at the Department of Solid State Physics, Lund University, Sweden. In collaboration with the experimentists,
I was engaged in the research on quantum dot
ratchet. Lund is a university city in the southern Sweden,
quiet and beautiful. Ericsson has its Mobile
Communications division in Lund. There are also many other high-tech companies in IDEON, science and technology parks in Sweden.
In the spring of 1999, I joined the Computational Physics Group in Helsinki University of Technology. Finland is well known as the homeland of Nokia. The university is located in Espoo, Finland's high-tech city. VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland and Otaniemi Science Park are nearby. The Finnish National Center for Scientific Computing is located just a hundred meters
away. I stayed in Finland for such a nice summer which is even better than that in Sweden.
When the last autumn in this century came, I had to say goodbye to Finland and leave for the
United States.
In the autumn of 1999, I
joined the Computational
Electronics Group in the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, working with Prof. Jean-Pierre Leburton on
three-dimensional simulation of self-assembled quantum dots.
We are now working on Stark effect on intersubband transitions in stacked InAs/GaAs quantum
dots.
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Last updated on Nov. 20, 2000 by Weidong Sheng.