Professor Ying joined the Brown Physics Department in 1971. A graduate of the University of Hong Kong in 1964, he received Ph.D. in physics from Brown in 1968. Professor Ying has done postdoctoral research at Brown and at the University of California at San Diego. He was designated an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 1972, and received the U.S. Senior Scientist Award from the Humboldt Foundation in 1976. He has carried out research at the University of Paris, Imperial College of the University of London, K.F.A. Julich and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart in Germany, Helsinki Institute of Physics and Aalto University in Finland, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was awared a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in 2015 to carry out teaching and research in Brazil.
