Ok for those of you who are not within our community, he's NTU's assistant prof & he's recently named one of the world's top 35 young innovators under the age of 35, receiving the accolade from the MIT based Technology Review magazine.
He invented the "invisibility cloak".... haha... not the Harry Porter kind but this is real science/technology!!! The Technology Review Citation called Dr Zhang's technique a "'simple, promising solution.... while it has serious limitations... it does suggest a possible path to making practical invisibility cloaks,..." E.g. it could shrink cellphones & other electronics. Currently some elemnets in such devices must be separated becos of electromagnetic interference. but if you can make them " invisible to each other" , you can put them closer to each other!
