Prof. Andrew Ng

Andrew Ng received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Hong Kong and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Western Ontario. Prior to joining the Department of Physics at the University of British Columbia in 1980, he was a National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. In 2003, he joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as Scientific Director of the Jupiter Laser Facility. With the successful establishment of JLF, he returned to UBC in 2008 to continue research as an Emeritus Professor.

 As a young student, he was attracted to the field of plasma physics by the excitement of fusion research as a means to produce a virtually inexhaustible source of energy. As a researcher, he has been fascinated by the multidisciplinary nature of plasma science. He is particularly interested in the link between condensed matter physics and plasma physics.  He strives to understand the transition from a condensed matter to a plasma state in the regime for which he has coined the description “Warm Dense Matter”. This regime is also key to research in high pressure science, planetary science and inertial confinement fusion.  In 2000 Prof. Ng initiated the International Workshop on Warm Dense Matter to bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines.  The meeting has since been held in Canada (2000, 2005), Germany (2002), France (2007), Japan (2009), U.S.A. (2011).

Prof. Ng is a recipient of the C.A. McDowell Medal and the Izaak Walton Killam Research Prize at UBC, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Science & Technology Award, the Merit award and the PSAC award of IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.