Genius Cao Yuan will go to the United States to teach and is expected to become the youngest Nobel Prize winner in physics

According to news on November 27, the official website of the University of California, Berkeley,Cao Yuan will officially serve as an assistant professor in the school's EECS (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) from July 2024.Information shows that Cao Yuan was born in 1996 in Chengdu, Sichuan. Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, exchange student at the University of Michigan, Master of Engineering and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently a postdoctoral junior researcher at Harvard University.

Cao Yuan was selected into the extraordinary class of Shenzhen Yaohua Experimental Primary School in 2007. In less than 3 years, he completed all the courses of the sixth grade of elementary school, junior high school, and high school; in 2010, he was admitted to the Youth Class of the University of Science and Technology of China with a college entrance examination score of 669 points, and was selected into the "Yan Jici Physics Talent Class".

In 2014, he graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree, went to MIT to study for a Ph.D., and joined Pablo Jarillo Herrero's team; in 2020, he received a Ph.D. from MIT.

Cao Yuan focuses on “twisted electronics”—the study of electronics and “twist” in materials.

As of August 2021, Cao Yuan has published 8 articles in "Nature" and 1 article in "Science".Some media say he is expected to become the world's youngest Nobel Prize winner in physics.