
Kai Wang is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Physics at McGill University. He joined the faculty of McGill in 2023 as a Research Chair in Quantum Photonics (supported by MEIE Québec). Before joining McGill, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Before that, he received his PhD from the Australian National University, MSc from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and BEng from Tianjin University.
Kai Wang is actively participating in Québec strategic clusters of researchers by being a member of RQMP and INTRIQ, and an associate member of COPL. At McGill, he is a member of the Centre for the Physics of Materials (CPM) and McGill Energy Centre. He is a member of Optica (formerly the Optical Society) and the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP).