Ying-Cheng Lai

Ying-Cheng Lai is a Chinese theoretical physicist who works in the area of chaos theory. He is one among the pioneers in the nonlinear and complex systems and chaos theory. Currently he works in Arizona State University holding an ISS Chair Professorship.

Ying-Cheng Lai has worked in the fields of dynamics of nonlinear and complex systems including chaotic dynamics, relativistic quantum chaotic dynamics, complex networks, computational biology and graphene physics. He has coauthored several scientific articles with Celso Grebogi, Edward Ott, James A. Yorke and Miguel A. F. Sanjuán. He has directed 14 Ph.D. and 20 master theses and supported 12 post-doctoral fellows.

In 1997, From the White House, he had received the Air Force Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) . Also in the same year the National Science Foundation honored him with a Faculty Career Award. In 2008, he received the Outstanding Referee Award from the American Physical Society.

In 2016, he was chosen as the 2016 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows, Pentagon officials announced. This program awards grants to top-tier researchers from U.S. universities to conduct long-term, unclassified, basic research of strategic importance to the Defense Department.

• Ying-Cheng Lai and Tamas Tel Transient Chaos: complex dynamics in finite time scales, Springer.