Brief Introduction

Jack xingkong星空集团官网 has published ~70 journal papers (as of 2025) in internationally recognized journals, including first author or corresponding author publications in Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Light, Science, and Applications, and Physical Review Letters. Ranked World’s Top 2% of Scientists Released by Stanford University in 2022.

xingkong星空集团官网 Interests
Optical Trapping 

Metamaterials 

Photonics

Non-Hermitian Physics

Educational Background

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

2001/9 – 2005/9 Physics / PhD (HKUST)

1998/9 – 2001/7 Applied Physics / BSc (HKUST)

Professional Experience

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

2019/9 – Current Department of Physics / Associate Professor

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

2012/9 –2019/8 Department of Physics / Assistant Professor

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

2010/9 – 2012/8 Department of Physics /xingkong星空集团官网 Assistant Professor

2005/9- 2010/11 Department of Physics /xingkong星空集团官网 Associate (HKUST)

Honors&Awards

Peacock Talent Project (Level C)

Selected Publication

1. Solving non-Hermitian physics for optical manipulation on a quantum computer
Light, Sci. & Appl. 14,132 (2025)
Yu-ang Fan,* Xiao Li,* Shijie Wei,* Yishan Li, Xinyue Long, Hongfeng Liu, Xinfang Nie, Jack xingkong星空集团官网 (corresponding author), Dawei Lu (corresponding author)

2. Morphology-independent general-purpose optical surface tractor beam
Nat. Commun. 15, 6836 (2024).
Neng Wang, Jack xingkong星空集团官网 (corresponding author), and Guoping Wang (corresponding author)

3. Non-Hermitian non-equipartition theory for trapped particles
Nat. Commun. 15, 1963 (2024).
Xiao Li,* Yongyin Cao,* and Jack xingkong星空集团官网 (corresponding author)

4. Creating stable trapping force and switchable optical torque with tunable phase of light
Science Advances 8, eadd6664 (2022)
Fan Nan (xingkong星空集团官网), Xiao Li, Shuailong Zhang,
Jack xingkong星空集团官网 (corresponding author), and Zijie Yan (corresponding author)

5. Non-Hermitian physics for optical manipulation uncovers inherent instability of large clusters Nature Communications 12, 6597 (2021). Xiao Li, Yineng Liu, Zhifang Lin, Jack xingkong星空集团官网 (corresponding author), and C. T. Chan.