Physicist You Chenglong has left the United States to take up a full-time position in China after working for more than a decade in the strategically important fields of quantum sensing and precision measurement.
Previously based at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, You is regarded as a fast-rising researcher in his field.
According to Chinese media reports, he joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in Chengdu as a professor this month.
UESTC has been on the US government’s export-control Entity List since 2012 due to its cutting-edge research into defence-related technology such as radars and electronic warfare.
While his name has not yet appeared on UESTC’s publicly available faculty listings, You’s Google Scholar profile lists the Chinese university as his current affiliation.
You has been asked for comment.
He earned his PhD in physics from LSU in 2019, studying how light can be used to push measurements to their absolute limits, work that underpins technology ranging from ultra-precise navigation sensors to gravitational-wave detection.