About

Ning Luo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in 2022, where he was advised by Ruzica Piskac. Prior to joining UIUC, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science at Northwestern University, hosted by Xiao Wang. His research combines formal methods, automated reasoning, programming language, and cryptography to achieve security, verifiability, and confidentiality in practical and challenging scenarios. He is interested in trustworthy machine learning, applied cryptography, formal methods and automated reasoning, and security and privacy. Luo is actively seeking motivated Ph.D. students with a solid background in Computer Science who are eager to learn and uphold high standards of research integrity.

Research topics

• Physics
• Condensed matter physics
• Nuclear physics
• Geology
• Mechanics
• Materials science

Selected publications

• High-Tc Superconductivity: The Excitonic Coulomb Perspective

  2021-02-25

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• Excitonic Coulomb Pairing in a Variational Approach

  2020-12-02

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• Where Is the Electron Located in the Hole-Doped Cuprate?

  2020-12-02

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• Superconducting Properties

  2020-12-02

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• Reflections on John Bardeen’s Interest in the Role of Excitons in Superconductivity

  2020

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  • Condensed matter physics
  • Physics
  • Materials science
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• Transport and the Evidence for Electrons in P-type Cuprates

  2020

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  • Condensed matter physics
  • Physics
  • Nuclear physics
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• High-Tc Superconductivity

  2020-12-02

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  The exciton mechanism of high-Tc superconductivity in copper oxides was initially proposed by Prof. J. Bardeen. His insight is largely shared by another luminary in superconductivity, Prof. V. L. Ginzburg. The main author of the book, Dr. Nie Luo, was motivated by their insights to give a geometrical explanation to the excitonic Coulomb interaction and has developed a unique formalism to understand and predict physical properties of high-Tc superconductors. This work is supported by increasingly strong evidence for electron–hole interactions in p-type cuprates. The presence of electrons in hole-doped cuprates is revealed by the works of the authors and many others, including the late Prof. L. P. Gor’kov. The book also tries to understand the interlayer Coulomb (ILC) pairing model by the excitonic Coulomb interaction. Developed by Prof. A. J. Leggett, ILC theory shares many views with Ginzburg’s approach. The other author of the book, Prof. George H. Miley, shares with us his personal experience with Prof. Bardeen on the exciton’s role in physics problems including high-Tc superconductivity. The results and predictions of this excitonic Coulomb mechanism have been verified by an increasing number of experiments. This book summarizes the current status and fathoms future directions.

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• Interlayer Coulomb Instability: The Many-Body Approach

  2020

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  • Physics
  • Mechanics
  • Nuclear physics
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• The apparent change of activity with temperature in a 226Ra decay chain

  Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry · 2011-08-30 · 2 citations

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• Experience teaching an energy storage class as a nuclear engineering course

  2011-12-01

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Frequent coauthors

• George H. Miley

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  54 shared

• Rodney Burton

  CU Aerospace (United States)

  14 shared

• A. G. Lipson

  Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry

  10 shared

• Kyu-Jung Kim

  10 shared

• Prajakti Joshi Shrestha

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  8 shared

• Frank Holcomb

  7 shared

• J. W. Mather

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  7 shared

• H. Hora

  UNSW Sydney

  6 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2006

• M.S., Computer Science

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2002

• B.S., Computer Science

  University of Science and Technology of China

  1999