Wai-Yim Ching is a Curator’s Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is also a group leader at the Electronic Structure Group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and an invited speaker of the 57th Midwest Solid State Conference.
Education
Wai-Yim Ching was born in 1945 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China. He completed his primary school and part of middle schooleducation in China. His family moved to Hong Kong in 1966. He worked part-time in a variety of manual jobs while attending high school. 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:
In recent years, he did research on the defects and impurities in insulators, development of computational methodologies and algorithms, Transition metal ions in laser crystals, Electronic structure of ceramics. 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.
W. Y. Ching. "Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Properties of Ceramic Materials". Journal of the American Ceramic Society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
