Dr. Yi Zhang
Associate Professor
Contact Info
Office： School of Physics, W629
Tel： +86-15757716675
Email：frankzhangyi@gmail.com, frankzhangyi@pku.edu.cn
Personal Homepage：https://sites.google.com/view/zhangyiphysics/home/
Education
| Degree | Year | Major | Institution |
| Ph.D. | 2007-2012 | Physics | University of California, Berkeley |
| B.S | 2004-2007 | Physics | Fudan University |
Professional Appointments
| Year | Position | Insititution |
| 2012-2016 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University |
| 2016-2019 | Bethe Fellow | Cornell University |
| 2019-2025 | Assistant Professor | Peking University |
| 2025-curren | Associate Professor | Peking University |
Research Interests
Innovative algorithms including AI and machine learning methods, novel models, and emergent phenomena for quantum materials and condensed matter systems, including topological materials, quantum entanglement and computation, magneto-transport phenomena, strongly-correlated systems, etc.
Selected Publications
Machine Learning in Electronic Quantum Matter Imaging Experiments. Yi Zhang*, A. Mesaros*, K. Fujita, S. D. Edkins, M. H. Hamidian, K. Ch'ng, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Séamus Davis, E. Khatami, Eun-Ah Kim. Nature (accepted, in production) (2019)
Quantum Hall effect based on Weyl orbits in Cd3As2. Cheng Zhang*, Yi Zhang*, Xiang Yuan*, Shiheng Lu, Jinglei Zhang, Awadhesh Narayan, Yanwen Liu, Huiqin Zhang, Zhuoliang Ni, Ran Liu, Eun Sang Choi, Alexey Suslov, Stefano Sanvito, Li Pi, Hai-Zhou Lu, Andrew C. Potter & Faxian Xiu. Nature 565, 331–336 (2019)
Quantum Loop Topography for Machine Learning. Yi Zhang, Eun-Ah Ki. Physical Review Letters 118, 216401 (2017) [Editors' Suggestion and Physics Viewpoint]. (* equal contribution authors)
Opening Positions
Available positions in 2026: 1 incoming graduate student and 1 postdoc