Jingming Xu

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Jingming "Jimmy" Xu is an engineer, currently the Charles C. Tillinghast '32 University Professor at Brown University and Chang-Jiang Chair in Physics at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, also having been the James Ham Chair in Optoelectronics (1992-1997) and Nortel Professor of Emerging Technology at University of Toronto (1997-1999). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, IEEE, American Physical Society and Institute of Physics. [1] [2] [3]

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  2. "Faculty and Staff". brown.edu. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  3. "Electrical Engineering Faculty". brown.edu. Retrieved February 7, 2017.