Wai-Yim Ching

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Wai-Yim Ching
Alma mater
Awards
  • Received Presidential Award from University of Missouri,[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City
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Wai-Yim Ching is a Curator’s Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.[2] He is also a group leader at the Electronic Structure Group (ESG) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and an invited speaker of the 57th Midwest Solid State Conference.[3][4]

Education[edit]

Wai-Yim Ching was born in 1945 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China.[citation needed] He completed his primary school and part of middle school education in China.[citation needed] His family moved to Hong Kong in 1966.[citation needed] He worked part-time in a variety of manual jobs while attending high school (Queen’s College).[citation needed] He was admitted to the University of Hong Kong in 1966 and graduated with a B. Sc. degree in 1969 and completed his Ph.D. at the Louisiana State University.[citation needed]

Research and career[edit]

Dr. Ching’s research and publications cover diverse disciplines such as condensed matter physics, ceramics and glasses, chemistry, biology, material science, engineering, medical science, geophysics and earth science in topics:

  • Advanced ceramic materials and composites
  • Complex biomolecules and biomaterials
  • Novel intermetallic compounds especially on high entropy alloys and Ni-based superalloys
  • Structure and properties inorganic, organic and metallic glasses
  • Development of next-generation new cement materials including bio-inspired cement
  • Earth materials and mineralogy
  • Spectroscopic studies and core-level excitations in organic and inorganic crystals.
  • Microstructural modeling of defects and interfaces in ceramic materials.
  • Materials for applications in energy-related science and technology [citation needed]

In recent years, he did research on the defects and impurities in insulators,[5] development of computational methodologies and algorithms, Transition metal ions in laser crystals, Electronic structure of ceramics.[6] His research area is theoretical condensed matter physics, materials science, ceramics and glasses, chemistry, biology, engineering, medical science, and earth science.

In 1978, He joined the University of Missouri-Kansas City as an assistant professor and got tenure in 1984, and quickly rose through the ranks.[citation needed] He was appointed Curator’s Distinguished Professor of the University of Missouri in 1988.[citation needed] He served as the Chair of the Department from 1990-1998. [citation needed]He took sabbatical leaves including at the Max-Planck Institute für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1997 and Kyoto University, Japan in 2005. [citation needed]

Awards and honors[edit]

In 2017, Wai-Yim Ching received the University of Missouri's Presidential Award for sustained Career Excellence.[7] He is a fellow of the American ceramic Society,[8] American Physical Society,[9] American Association for the Advancement of Science[10] and Royal Society of Chemistry in Britain. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society[11] and also serving as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports. Additional awards include the Distinguished Scientist Award, Outstanding Referee Award,[citation needed] ASEE Distinguished Summer Faculty Fellow,[citation needed] N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity at UMKC, Mid-America State University Association Honor Lecturer, First Van Vleck Lecturer, and UKC trustee Fellowship. He is Elected to the Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics.[12]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Electronic Structure Method for Complex Materials: The orthogonalized linear combination of atomic orbitals.[13]
  • The Magnetism of Amorphous Metals and Alloys. World Scientific Publishers.[14]

Publications[edit]

  • W. Y. Ching. "Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Properties of Ceramic Materials". Journal of the American Ceramic Society.[15]
  • W. Y. Ching, and Yong‐Nian Xu. "First‐Principles Calculation of Electronic, Optical, and Structural Properties of α‐Al2O3". Journal of the American Ceramic Society.[16]
  • W. Y. Ching, Fanqi Gan, and Ming-Zhu Huang. "Band theory of linear and nonlinear susceptibilities of some binary ionic insulators". Journal of American Physical Society.[17]
  • W. Y. Ching, Shang-Di Mo, Isao Tanaka, and Masato Yoshiya. "Prediction of spinel structure and properties of single and double nitrides". Journal of American Physics Society.[18]
  • Wai‐Yim Ching, Shang‐Di Mo, Lizhi Ouyang, Paul Rulis, Isao Tanaka, and Masato Yoshiya. "Theoretical Prediction of the Structure and Properties of Cubic Spinel Nitrides". Journal of the American Ceramic Society.[19]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Wai-Yim Ching". umsystem.edu.
  2. ^ "Ching, Wai-Yim". College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  3. ^ "Wai-Yim Ching (Group Leader) – Electronic Structure Group". Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  4. ^ "Advisory Board | 57th Midwest Solid State Conference". solidstate.physics.ku.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  5. ^ Ching, Wai-yim; Rulis, Paul (2012-05-17). Application to Impurities, Defects, and Surfaces. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575800.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-174099-2.
  6. ^ Ching, Wai-Yim; Mo, Shang-Di; Ouyang, Lizhi; Rulis, Paul; Tanaka, Isao; Yoshiya, Masato (2002). "Theoretical Prediction of the Structure and Properties of Cubic Spinel Nitrides". Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 85 (1): 75–80. doi:10.1111/j.1151-2916.2002.tb00042.x. ISSN 1551-2916.
  7. ^ "2017 President's Award for Sustained Excellence | University of Missouri System". www.umsystem.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  8. ^ "ACerS members honored by World Academy of Ceramics for industry contributions". The American Ceramic Society. 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  9. ^ "Materials Genomics: Total Bond Order Density". University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  10. ^ Science, American Association for the Advancement of (2018-11-30). "2018 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council". Science. 362 (6418): 1010–1013. Bibcode:2018Sci...362.1010.. doi:10.1126/science.362.6418.1010. ISSN 0036-8075.
  11. ^ "Journal of the American Ceramic Society". ACerS. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  12. ^ "World Academy of Ceramics: Academy Members".
  13. ^ Ching, Wai-Yim. (2012). Electronic structure methods for complex materials : the orthogonalized linear combination of atomic orbitals. Rulis, Paul Michael, 1976- (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-957580-0. OCLC 776772525.
  14. ^ The magnetism of amorphous metals and alloys. Fernandez-Baca, J. A. (Jaime A.), Ching, Wai-Yim. Singapore: World Scientific. 1995. ISBN 981-02-1033-7. OCLC 33426790.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ^ Ching, W. Y. (1990). "Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Properties of Ceramic Materials". Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 73 (11): 3135–3160. Bibcode:1990ACSJ...73.3135C. doi:10.1111/j.1151-2916.1990.tb06430.x. ISSN 1551-2916.
  16. ^ Ching, W. Y.; Xu, Yong-Nian (1994). "First-Principles Calculation of Electronic, Optical, and Structural Properties of α-Al2O3". Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 77 (2): 404–411. doi:10.1111/j.1151-2916.1994.tb07008.x. ISSN 1551-2916.
  17. ^ Ching, W. Y.; Gan, Fanqi; Huang, Ming-Zhu (1995-07-15). "Band theory of linear and nonlinear susceptibilities of some binary ionic insulators". Physical Review B. 52 (3): 1596–1611. Bibcode:1995PhRvB..52.1596C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.52.1596. PMID 9981222.
  18. ^ Ching, W. Y.; Mo, Shang-Di; Tanaka, Isao; Yoshiya, Masato (2001-01-17). "Prediction of spinel structure and properties of single and double nitrides". Physical Review B. 63 (6): 064102. Bibcode:2001PhRvB..63f4102C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.63.064102.
  19. ^ Ching, Wai-Yim; Mo, Shang-Di; Ouyang, Lizhi; Rulis, Paul; Tanaka, Isao; Yoshiya, Masato (2002). "Theoretical Prediction of the Structure and Properties of Cubic Spinel Nitrides". Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 85 (1): 75–80. doi:10.1111/j.1151-2916.2002.tb00042.x. ISSN 1551-2916.
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