Xiaoliang Qi (simplified Chinese: 祁晓亮; traditional Chinese: 祁曉亮; pinyin: Qí Xiǎoliàng;^[1] born July 1983^{[2][better source needed]}) is a Chinese physicist and professor at Stanford University who studies quantum entanglement, quantum gravity, quantum chaos, and topological phenomena in condensed matter.^[3] He earned his B.S. in 2003 and Ph.D. in 2007 from Tsinghua University.^[3]

Qi earned a B.S. in Physics from Tsinghua University in 2003 and earned a Ph.D. in Physics at the Institute of Advanced Study in the same institution in 2007.^[3][4]

Qi was a research associate at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center from 2007 to 2009;^[3] following that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Station Q in UC Santa Barbara from 2009 to 2010.^[3] He was an assistant professor of physics at Stanford University from 2009 to 2014, an associate professor from 2014 to 2018, and a professor since 2019.^[3] From September 2017 to March 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study.^[4] His research group has pointed out the relationship between topological insulators in three space dimensions and axion electrodynamics.^{[5][clarification needed]}

• 2010 Sloan Fellowship^[3][5]
• 2011 Hermann Kümmel Early Achievement Award in Many-Body Physics^[3][5]
• 2011 Packard Fellowship^[3]
• 2012 NSF CAREER Award^[5]
• 2014 Sackler International Prize of Physics^[5]
• 2016 New Horizons in Physics Prize^{[1][3][5][6][7][8]}
• 2018 Simons Investigator^[3]

Qi lives in Palo Alto, California.^{[2][better source needed]}

• Shoucheng Zhang