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            EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 
            
                
                    
                        | 1993-1997 | 
                        B.A. in Physics, Department of Physics, Northwest University (Xi'an, P.R. China) | 
                     
                    
                        | 1997-2001 | 
                        Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Thesis Advisor: Prof. Bo-Yu Hou, Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University (Xi'an, P.R. China) | 
                     
                    
                        | July 2001-June 2003 | 
                        Postdoctoral fellow  
                        Mentors: Prof. Ling-An Wu and Prof. Guo-Zhen Yang  
                        Laboratory of Optics Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences  
                        (Beijing, P.R. China) | 
                     
                    
                        | Sep. 2003-Aug. 2004 | 
                        Postdoctoral fellow  
                        Mentor: Prof. Hoi-Kwong Lo  
                        Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control  
                        Department of Physics, University of Toronto  
                        (Toronto, Canada) | 
                     
                    
                        | Sep. 2004-April 2006 | 
                        Alexander von Humboldt research fellow  
                        Mentor: Prof. Sergio Albeverio  
                        Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of Bonn  
                        (Bonn, Germany) | 
                     
                    
                        | May 2006-April 2008 | 
                        Postdoctoral fellow and Marie-Curie research fellow  
                        Mentor: Prof. Jian-Wei Pan  
                        Institute of Physics, University of Heidelberg  
                        (Heidelberg, Germany) | 
                     
                    
                        | May 2008-Present | 
                        Professor 
                        Recipients of the "Hundred Talents Program" of Chinese Acadmy of Sciences 
                        University of Science and Technology of China  
                        (Hefei, China) | 
                     
                
             
              
            RESEARCH INTERESTS 
            
                
                    
                        | 1) | 
                        Quantum communication and quantum cryptography | 
                     
                    
                        | 2) | 
                        Characterizations of quantum entanglement, nonlocality and associated applications | 
                     
                    
                        | 3) | 
                        Quantum information theory and foundation of quantum physics | 
                     
                
             
               
            REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS  
            
                
                    
                        | 1) | 
                        Direct and full-scale experimental verifications towards ground–satellite quantum key distribution 
                        Nature Photonics,7 (2013) 387–393, 
                        Jian-Yu Wang, Bin Yang, Sheng-Kai Liao, Liang Zhang, Qi Shen, Xiao-Fang Hu, Jin-Cai Wu, Shi-Ji Yang, Hao Jiang, Yan-Lin Tang, Bo Zhong, Hao Liang, Wei-Yue Liu, Yi-Hua Hu, Yong-Mei Huang, Bo Qi, Ji-Gang Ren, Ge-Sheng Pan, Juan Yin, Jian-Jun Jia, Yu-Ao Chen, Kai Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng & Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 2) | 
                        Experimental Demonstration of Counterfactual Quantum Communication, 
                        Phys. Rev. Lett.,109 (2012) 030501, 
                        Yang Liu, Lei Ju, Xiao-Lei Liang, Shi-Biao Tang, Guo-Liang Shen Tu, Lei Zhou, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Kai Chen, Teng-Yun Chen, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 3) | 
                        Metropolitan all-pass and inter-cityquantum communication network 
                        Optics Express,18 (2010) 27217-27225, 
                        Teng-Yun Chen, Jian Wang, Hao Liang, Wei-Yue Liu, Yang Liu,Xiao Jiang, Yuan Wang, Xu Wan, Wen-Qi Cai,Lei Ju, Luo-Kan Chen, Liu-Jun Wang, Yuan Gao, Kai Chen,Cheng-Zhi Peng, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 4) | 
                        Verifying Genuine High-Order Entanglement, 
                        Phys. Rev. Lett.,105 (2010) 210504, 
                        Che-Ming Li, Kai Chen, Andreas Reingruber, Yueh-Nan Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 5) | 
                        Experimental Demonstration of a Heralded Entanglement Source 
                        Nature Photonics,4 (2010) 549-552, 
                        Claudia Wagenknecht, Che-Ming Li, Andreas Reingruber, Xiao-Hui Bao, Alexander Goebel, Yu-Ao Chen, Qiang Zhang, Kai Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 6) | 
                        Experimental Free-Space Quantum Teleportation 
                        Nature Photonics,4 (2010) 376-381, 
                        Xian-Min Jin, Ji-Gang Ren, Bin Yang, Zhen-Huan Yi, Fei Zhou, Xiao-Fan Xu, Shao-Kai Wang, Dong Yang, Yuan-Feng Hu, Shuo Jiang, Tao Yang, Hao Yin,Kai Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 7) | 
                        Decoy-state quantum key distribution with polarized photons over 200 km 
                        Optics Express,18 (2010) 8587-8594, 
                        Yang Liu, Teng-Yun Chen, Jian Wang,Wen-Qi Cai, XuWan, Luo-Kan Chen, Jin-Hong Wang, Shu-Bin Liu, Hao Liang, Lin Yang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Kai Chen, Zeng-Bing Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 8) | 
                        Field test of a practical secure communication network withdecoy-state quantum cryptography, 
                        Optics Express,17 (2009) 6540-6549, 
                        Teng-Yun Chen, Hao Liang, Yang Liu, Wen-Qi Cai, Lei Ju, Wei-Yue Liu, Jian Wang, Hao Yin, Kai Chen, Zeng-Bing Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng, and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 9) | 
                        Multistage Entanglement Swapping 
                        Phys. Rev. Lett.,101 (2008) 080403, 
                        Alexander Goebel, Claudia Wagenknecht, Qiang Zhang, Yu-Ao Chen, Kai Chen, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 10) | 
                        Entanglement of formation and concurrence for mixed states 
                        Front. Comput. Sci. China,2(2008) 114–128, 
                        Xiuhong Gao, Albeverio Sergio, Kai Chen, Shaoming Fei, Xianqing Li-Jost | 
                     
                    
                        | 11) | 
                        Experimental Realization of One-Way Quantum Computing with Two-Photon Four-Qubit Cluster States, 
                        Phys. Rev. Lett.,99 (2007) 120503, 
                        Kai Chen,Che-Ming Li,Qiang Zhang,Yu-Ao Chen,Alexander Goebel,Shuai Chen, Alois Mair and Jian-Wei Pan | 
                     
                    
                        | 12) | 
                        Multi-partite quantum cryptographic protocols with noisy GHZ states, 
                        Quantum Information & Computation,99 (2007) 689-715, 
                        Kai Chen and Hoi-Kwong Lo | 
                     
                    
                        | 13) | 
                        Two-Setting Bell Inequalities for Many Qubits, 
                        Phys. Rev. A,74(2006) 050101(R), 
                        Kai Chen, Sergio Albeverio, and Shao-Ming Fei | 
                     
                    
                        | 14) | 
                        Concurrence-based entanglement measure for Werner States, 
                        Reports on Mathematical Physics, 58 (2006) 325-334, 
                        Kai Chen, Sergio Albeverio, and Shao-Ming Fei | 
                     
                    
                        | 15) | 
                        Entanglement of Formation of Bipartite Quantum States, 
                        Phys. Rev. Lett.,95 (2005) 210501, 
                        Kai Chen, Sergio Albeverio, and Shao-Ming Fei | 
                     
                    
                        | 16) | 
                        Concurrence of Arbitrary Dimensional Bipartite Quantum States, 
                        Phys. Rev. Lett.,95 (2005) 040504, 
                        Kai Chen, Sergio Albeverio, and Shao-Ming Fei | 
                     
                    
                        | 17) | 
                        Decoy State Quantum Key Distribution, 
                        Phys. Rev. Lett.,94 (2005) 230504, 
                        Hoi-Kwong Lo, Xiongfeng Ma and Kai Chen | 
                     
                    
                        | 18) | 
                        A matrix realignment method for recognizing entanglement,  
                        Quantum Information & Computation, 3 (2003) 193-202, 
                        Kai Chen and Ling-An Wu | 
                     
                
             
             
             
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