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][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] 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] Qi lives in Palo Alto, California.