Yuan Cao
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Department of Physics
Bio:
Junior Fellow, Harvard University, 2021 - 2024
Postdoctoral fellow, MIT, 2020 - 2021
PhD, Electrical Engineering, MIT, 2020
MS, Electrical Engineering, MIT, 2016
BSc, Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2014
Awards
NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award, 2025
APS Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award, 2022
McMillan Award, 2021
Sackler Prize in Physics, 2020
TIME 100 Next for rising stars shaping their industries and the future, 2019
Nature’s 10 ’Graphene wrangler’, 2018
Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award winner, 2018
Forbes 30 under 30 Asia, 2018
Locher Fellowship, 2014
USTC Guo Moruo Scholarship, 2013
caoyuan at berkeley dot edu
