Wai-Yim Ching
Alma mater
Awards
  • Received Presidential Award from University of Missouri,[1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Missouri-Kansas City
Website

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

Wai-Yim Ching was born in 1945 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. He completed his primary school and part of middle school education in China. His family moved to Hong Kong in 1966. He worked part-time in a variety of manual jobs while attending high school (Queen’s College). 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.

Research and career

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

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. He was appointed Curator’s Distinguished Professor of the University of Missouri in 1988. He served as the Chair of the Department from 1990-1998. He took sabbatical leaves including at the Max-Planck Institute für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1997 and Kyoto University, Japan in 2005.

Awards and honors

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, ASEE Distinguished Summer Faculty Fellow, 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

  • 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

  • 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

  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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