ZHONG Youpeng - The Department of Physics at Southern University of Science and Technology

Personal Profile

Youpeng earned his bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University in 2013 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2019, followed by over a year of postdoctoral research at the same institution. From 2020 to 2025, he worked at the Southern University of Science and Technology before joining the Shenzhen International Quantum Academy for a year. In 2026 he became an Associate Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology. He was selected for the National Overseas Young High-Level Talent program in 2021, and named to the MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" Asia Pacific list in 2023. His primary research focuses on experimental studies in superconducting quantum computing, with over 50 SCI publications, including first/corresponding-author papers in international journals such as Nature, Nature Electronics, and Nature Physics. His notable achievements include the inter-chip transmission of multi-qubit entangled states and low-loss quantum interconnects.

Research Areas

Superconducting quantum circuits, distributed quantum computing, quantum error correction, quantum simulation.

Educational Background

2015.08-2019.03 Ph.D. in Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

2013.08-2015.07 Graduate student, Zhejiang University

2009.08-2013.07 B.S. in Science, Zhejiang University

Professional Experience

2026.03-current Associate Professor, SUSTech

2025.01- 2025.12 Researcher, Shenzhen International Quantum Academy

2020.11-2025.01 Assistant Researcher to Researcher, Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, SUSTech

2019.05-2020.10 Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Chicago

Honors & Awards

2023, MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" Asia Pacific list.

Selected Publication

(1) . Wenhui Huang*, Xuandong Sun*, Jiawei Zhang*, Zechen Guo, Peisheng Huang, Yongqi Liang, Yiting Liu, Daxiong Sun, Zilin Wang, Yuzhe Xiong, Xiaohan Yang, Jiajian Zhang, Libo Zhang, Ji Chu, Weijie Guo, Ji Jiang, Song Liu, Jingjing Niu, Jiawei Qiu, Ziyu Tao, Yuxuan Zhou, Xiayu Linpeng#, Youpeng Zhong#, Dapeng Yu. Logical multi-qubit entanglement with dual-rail superconducting qubits. Nature Physics (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-026-03211-9

(2). Jiawei Qiu*, Zihao Zhang*, Zilin Wang, Libo Zhang, Yuxuan Zhou, Xuandong Sun, Jiawei Zhang, Xiayu Linpeng, Song Liu, Jingjing Niu#, Youpeng Zhong#, Dapeng Yu#. A thermal-noise-resilient microwave quantum network up to 4 K. Nature Electronics (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-026-01581-9

(3). Jingjing Niu, Libo Zhang, Yang Liu, Jiawei Qiu, Wenhui Huang, Jiaxiang Huang, Hao Jia, Jiawei Liu, Ziyu Tao, Weiwei Wei, Yuxuan Zhou, Wanjing Zou, Yuanzhen Chen, Xiaowei Deng, Xiuhao Deng, Changkang Hu, Ling Hu, Jian Li, Dian Tan, Yuan Xu, Fei Yan, Tongxing Yan, Song Liu#, Youpeng Zhong#, Andrew N Cleland, Dapeng Yu. Low-loss interconnects for modular superconducting quantum processors. Nature Electronics 6, 235 (2023). Highlighted by Nature.

(4). Y. Zhong, H.-S. Chang, A. Bienfait, É. Dumur, M.-H. Chou, C. R. Conner, J. Grebel, G. A. Peairs, R. G. Povey, D. I. Schuster and A. N. Cleland#. Deterministic multi-qubit entanglement in a quantum network. Nature, 590, 571-575 (2021).

(5). Y. P. Zhong, H.-S. Chang, K. J. Satzinger, M.-H. Chou, A. Bienfait, C. R. Conner, É. Dumur, J. Grebel, G. A. Peairs, R. G. Povey, D. I. Schuster and A. N. Cleland#. Violating Bell’s inequality with remotely connected superconducting qubits. Nature Physics 15, 741–744 (2019).