Wai-Yim Ching

Wai-Yim Ching was born in 1945 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He completed his primary school and part of middle school education in China.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} His family moved to Hong Kong in 1966.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He worked part-time in a variety of manual jobs while attending high school (Queen’s College).{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He was admitted to the University of Hong Kong in 1966 and graduated with a B. Sc. degree in 1969 and completed his Ph.D. at the Louisiana State University.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

Dr. Ching’s research and publications cover diverse disciplines such as condensed matter physics, ceramics and glasses, chemistry, biology, material science, engineering, medical science, geophysics and earth science in topics:

• Advanced ceramic materials and composites
• Complex biomolecules and biomaterials
• Novel intermetallic compounds especially on high entropy alloys and Ni-based superalloys
• Structure and properties inorganic, organic and metallic glasses
• Development of next-generation new cement materials including bio-inspired cement
• Earth materials and mineralogy
• Spectroscopic studies and core-level excitations in organic and inorganic crystals.
• Microstructural modeling of defects and interfaces in ceramic materials.
• Materials for applications in energy-related science and technology {{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

In recent years, he did research on the defects and impurities in insulators,{{Cite book|last=Ching|first=Wai-yim|url=https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575800.001.0001/acprof-9780199575800-chapter-9|title=Application to Impurities, Defects, and Surfaces|last2=Rulis|first2=Paul|date=2012-05-17|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-174099-2|language=en-US|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575800.001.0001}} development of computational methodologies and algorithms, Transition metal ions in laser crystals, Electronic structure of ceramics.{{Cite journal|last=Ching|first=Wai-Yim|last2=Mo|first2=Shang-Di|last3=Ouyang|first3=Lizhi|last4=Rulis|first4=Paul|last5=Tanaka|first5=Isao|last6=Yoshiya|first6=Masato|date=2002|title=Theoretical Prediction of the Structure and Properties of Cubic Spinel Nitrides|journal=Journal of the American Ceramic Society|language=en|volume=85|issue=1|pages=75–80|doi=10.1111/j.1151-2916.2002.tb00042.x|issn=1551-2916}} His research area is theoretical condensed matter physics, materials science, ceramics and glasses, chemistry, biology, engineering, medical science, and earth science.

In 1978, He joined the University of Missouri-Kansas City as an assistant professor and got tenure in 1984, and quickly rose through the ranks.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He was appointed Curator’s Distinguished Professor of the University of Missouri in 1988.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} He served as the Chair of the Department from 1990-1998. {{citation needed|date=February 2020}}He took sabbatical leaves including at the Max-Planck Institute für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1997 and Kyoto University, Japan in 2005. {{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

In 2017, Wai-Yim Ching received the University of Missouri's Presidential Award for sustained Career Excellence.{{Cite web|url=https://www.umsystem.edu/ums/aa/2017_sustained_excellence|title=2017 President's Award for Sustained Excellence {{!}} University of Missouri System|website=www.umsystem.edu|access-date=2020-02-24}} He is a fellow of the American ceramic Society,{{Cite web|url=https://ceramics.org/acers-spotlight/acers-members-honored-by-world-academy-of-ceramics-for-industry-contributions|title=ACerS members honored by World Academy of Ceramics for industry contributions|date=2015-09-25|website=The American Ceramic Society|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-24}} American Physical Society,{{Cite web|url=https://calendar.utk.edu/event/materials_genomics_total_bond_order_density#.XlPYA0pS8dU|title=Materials Genomics: Total Bond Order Density|website=University of Tennessee, Knoxville|language=en|access-date=2020-02-24}} American Association for the Advancement of Science{{Cite journal|last=Science|first=American Association for the Advancement of|date=2018-11-30|title=2018 AAAS Fellows approved by the AAAS Council|journal=Science|language=en|volume=362|issue=6418|pages=1010–1013|doi=10.1126/science.362.6418.1010|bibcode=2018Sci...362.1010.|issn=0036-8075|doi-access=free}} and Royal Society of Chemistry in Britain. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society{{Cite web|url=https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15512916/homepage/editorialboard|title=Journal of the American Ceramic Society|website=ACerS|language=en|access-date=2020-02-24}} and also serving as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports. Additional awards include the Distinguished Scientist Award, Outstanding Referee Award,{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} ASEE Distinguished Summer Faculty Fellow,{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} N.T. Veatch Award for Distinguished Research and Creative Activity at UMKC, Mid-America State University Association Honor Lecturer, First Van Vleck Lecturer, and UKC trustee Fellowship. He is Elected to the Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics.{{cite web |url=http://www.waceramics.org/membership.shtml |title=World Academy of Ceramics: Academy Members}}

• Electronic Structure Method for Complex Materials: The orthogonalized linear combination of atomic orbitals.{{Cite book|last=Ching, Wai-Yim.|title=Electronic structure methods for complex materials : the orthogonalized linear combination of atomic orbitals|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|others=Rulis, Paul Michael, 1976-|isbn=978-0-19-957580-0|edition=1st|location=Oxford|oclc=776772525}}
• The Magnetism of Amorphous Metals and Alloys. World Scientific Publishers.{{Cite book|title=The magnetism of amorphous metals and alloys|date=1995|publisher=World Scientific|others=Fernandez-Baca, J. A. (Jaime A.), Ching, Wai-Yim.|isbn=981-02-1033-7|location=Singapore|oclc=33426790}}

• W. Y. Ching. "Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Properties of Ceramic Materials". Journal of the American Ceramic Society.{{Cite journal|last=Ching|first=W. Y.|date=1990|title=Theoretical Studies of the Electronic Properties of Ceramic Materials|journal=Journal of the American Ceramic Society|language=en|volume=73|issue=11|pages=3135–3160|doi=10.1111/j.1151-2916.1990.tb06430.x|bibcode=1990ACSJ...73.3135C|issn=1551-2916}}
• W. Y. Ching, and Yong‐Nian Xu. "First‐Principles Calculation of Electronic, Optical, and Structural Properties of α‐Al2O3". Journal of the American Ceramic Society.{{Cite journal|last=Ching|first=W. Y.|last2=Xu|first2=Yong-Nian|date=1994|title=First-Principles Calculation of Electronic, Optical, and Structural Properties of α-Al2O3|journal=Journal of the American Ceramic Society|language=en|volume=77|issue=2|pages=404–411|doi=10.1111/j.1151-2916.1994.tb07008.x|issn=1551-2916}}
• W. Y. Ching, Fanqi Gan, and Ming-Zhu Huang. "Band theory of linear and nonlinear susceptibilities of some binary ionic insulators". Journal of American Physical Society.{{Cite journal|last=Ching|first=W. Y.|last2=Gan|first2=Fanqi|last3=Huang|first3=Ming-Zhu|date=1995-07-15|title=Band theory of linear and nonlinear susceptibilities of some binary ionic insulators|journal=Physical Review B|volume=52|issue=3|pages=1596–1611|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.52.1596|pmid=9981222|bibcode=1995PhRvB..52.1596C}}
• W. Y. Ching, Shang-Di Mo, Isao Tanaka, and Masato Yoshiya. "Prediction of spinel structure and properties of single and double nitrides". Journal of American Physics Society.{{Cite journal|last=Ching|first=W. Y.|last2=Mo|first2=Shang-Di|last3=Tanaka|first3=Isao|last4=Yoshiya|first4=Masato|date=2001-01-17|title=Prediction of spinel structure and properties of single and double nitrides|journal=Physical Review B|volume=63|issue=6|pages=064102|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.63.064102|bibcode=2001PhRvB..63f4102C}}
• Wai‐Yim Ching, Shang‐Di Mo, Lizhi Ouyang, Paul Rulis, Isao Tanaka, and Masato Yoshiya. "Theoretical Prediction of the Structure and Properties of Cubic Spinel Nitrides". Journal of the American Ceramic Society.{{Cite journal|last=Ching|first=Wai-Yim|last2=Mo|first2=Shang-Di|last3=Ouyang|first3=Lizhi|last4=Rulis|first4=Paul|last5=Tanaka|first5=Isao|last6=Yoshiya|first6=Masato|date=2002|title=Theoretical Prediction of the Structure and Properties of Cubic Spinel Nitrides|journal=Journal of the American Ceramic Society|language=en|volume=85|issue=1|pages=75–80|doi=10.1111/j.1151-2916.2002.tb00042.x|issn=1551-2916}}

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