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Kai Wang is an assistant professor and research chair in quantum photonics in the Department of Physics at McGill University. Before joining McGill in 2023, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. Before that, he received his PhD from the Australian National University, his MSc from Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and his 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 Centre for Innovation in Storage and Conversion of Energy (McISCE). He is an early-career member of Optica (formerly the Optical Society) and serves as vice chair of the Optica Nanophotonics technical group. He is also a member of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP).