Professor Duan Luming from the University of Michigan was named a "CC Yao Professor" at Tsinghua University, an honorary professorship of the highest rank in the field of information science, on December 24. Tsinghua University Council Chairman Hu Heping, Tsinghua Vice President Qiu Yong, and the director of the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Professor Andrew Yao, attended the awarding ceremony.

Professor Duan obtained his PhD from the University of Science and Technology of China. He won a fellowship from the A. P. Sloan Foundation in 2004 and an Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Overseas Chinese Physics Association in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2009. Professor Duan is a theorist in the fields of quantum information, quantum optics, and atomic physics with particular interests in quantum computing, networking, and quantum simulation. He is well known for a number of innovative proposals for implementation of quantum information, including the "DLCZ" (Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller) scheme for realizing long-distance quantum communication. His work on quantum simulation with ultracold atoms (2003) is one of the most cited theoretical papers about ultracold atoms in the last decade. He has published 100 papers in refereed journals (including 28 in PRL, six in Nature, two in Science, and one in Reviews of Modern Physics) with more than 6000 total citations.

(From the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Tsinghua University)