Shiwei Zhang grew up in rural China in Henan province. He obtained
a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Science and Technology
of China in 1988, and came to the US via the CUSPEA (China-US Physics
Examination and Application) program organized by
Prof. T.D. Lee. He received
a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 1993. He was a Postdoctoral
Research Associate, jointly in the Theoretical Condensed Matter and the Nuclear
Theory groups, at Los Alamos National Lab for two years, and then an NSF
CISE Postdoctoral Fellow and a University Postdoctoral Fellow
at Ohio State University for almost one year. He has been a faculty member at
the College of William and Mary since 1996, where he
is now Chancellor Professor of Physics. In 2018, he took up a joint appointment
with the
Flatiron Institute
of the
Simons Foundation, where he is
Senior Research Scientist/Group Leader at the
Center for Computational
Quantum Physics (CCQ).
Visiting Positions
- Visiting Professor, 07/2009-07/2010, Institute of Physics
(IoP), Chinese Academy of Sciences and
Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
- Visiting Associate Professor, 03-05/2003, Institute for
Advanced Study (SISSA), Trieste, Italy
- Visiting Associate Professor, 09/2002-02/2003, Physics Department and
National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA),
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.
- Multiple short-term (several weeks to two months)
visits to the IoP, the KITP at UC Santa Barbara, and the INT at the
University of Washington.
Selected Honors and Awards
-
Fellow, American Physical Society (elected 2009).
- Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, College of William and Mary, 2009.
- Sally G. S. Spears Associate Professorship:
College of William and Mary, 2002-2005.
- Alumni Fellowship Award for teaching excellence:
College of William and Mary, 2001.
- Cottrell Scholar Award:
Research Corporation, USA, 2000.
- Faculty Early Career Award (CAREER): US National Science Foundation
(NSF), 1998.
Selected Synergistic Activities and Professional Services
- Principle Investigator,
Simons Collaboration on the Many-Electron Problem,
2013-2018.
- Co-Organizer,
The 25th Annual Workshop on Recent
Developments in Electronic Structure Theory (ES2013),
June 12-14, 2013 in Williamsburg, VA.
- Lead-PI,
NSF
Petascale Computing Resource Allocations (PRAC) team entitled
``Breakthrough
Peta-scale Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations'' (with WM, UIUC, Cornell,
ORNL, MIT, NCSU, FSU, and ASU), 2009-2013.
- Co-PI, DOE SciDAC team on ``Predictive Computing for Condensed Matter''
(with UIUC, WM, and Princeton), 2012-2017.
- Lead-PI, DOE
INCITE Award
on ``Precision Many-Body Quantum Simulations of Functionalized Structures''
(with WM, Cornell, Rice, LANL), 2011-2014.
- Co-PI,
DOE Computational Materials and Chemical Sciences Network (CMCSN) team
``Quantum chemistry by random walks in Slater determinant space''
(with Cornell, Rice, WM, LLNL), 2011-2014.
- Co-organizer, Advanced School on Quantum Monte Carlo Methods
in Physics and Chemistry, the Abdus Salam International Center for
Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, Jan. 21-Feb. 2, 2008.
- Lecturer at multiple international summer/winter schools on
numerical methods, quantum Monte Carlo,
and correlated electron systems.
Created by: shiwei@physics.wm.edu [Aug. 2001]