Tongcang Li
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of NSF IUCRC Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Purdue University
Dr. Tongcang Li is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He also serves as Director of the NSF IUCRC Center for Quantum Technologies (NSF). His research focuses on quantum sensing and optomechanics. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigators Award, and Purdue University’s Arden L. Bement Jr. Award for research excellence in science and engineering.
His work on GHz rotation of an optically levitated nanoparticle was recognized as one of the ten “Highlights of the Year” across all fields of physics in 2018 by the Physics magazine of the American Physical Society. More recently, his group achieved the first optical detection of individual nuclear spins in a two-dimensional material (Nature 643, 943 (2025)).
