Xiang Zhang

Xiang Zhang
Zhang in 2018
16th President and Vice-Chancellor of The University of Hong Kong
Incumbent
Assumed office July 2018
Chancellor	Carrie Lam John Lee Ka-chiu
Preceded by	Peter Mathieson
Personal details
Born	December 1963 (age 60) Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Nanjing University (BS, MS) University of Minnesota (MS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Occupation	Academic administrator
Profession	Materials scientist, optical engineer, physicist
Known for	Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of the Year, Time Magazine (2008) 50 Best Inventions of the Year, Time Magazine (2008) Top 10 Breakthroughs, Physics World (2019)
Awards	NSF CAREER Award (1997) SME Dell K. Allen Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (1998) ONR Young Investigator Award (1999) Fitzroy Medal (2014) Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award (2015) Max Born Award, Optical Society of America (2016) Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (2016) Excellence Award in Scientific Leadership (2016) A. C. Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science (2017) SPIE Mozi Award (2021)
Scientific career
Fields	materials physics, metamaterials and nano-photonics
Institutions	Pennsylvania State University University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Berkeley The University of Hong Kong
Thesis	Pulsed laser micro-processing of advanced electronic materials and related transport issues (1996)
Doctoral advisor	Costas Grigoropoulos

Zhang Xiang JP (Chinese: 张翔; pinyin: Zhāng Xiáng; born December 1963) is a Chinese-American physicist, mechanical engineer, and academic administrator. He has been serving as the 16th and current president and vice-chancellor of The University of Hong Kong since July 2018.

Zhang was the inaugural Ernest S. Kuh Endowed Chaired Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States, the director of the National Science Foundation Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center, the director of materials science division, and a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.^[1]