Brief Introduction

Jack Ng has published ~70 journal papers (as of 2025) in internationally recognized journals, including first author or corresponding author publications in Nature Photonics, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Light, Science, and Applications, and Physical Review Letters. Ranked World’s Top 2% of Scientists Released by Stanford University in 2022.

Research Interests
Optical Trapping 

Metamaterials 

Photonics

Non-Hermitian Physics

Educational Background

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

2001/9 – 2005/9 Physics / PhD (HKUST)

1998/9 – 2001/7 Applied Physics / BSc (HKUST)

Professional Experience

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

2019/9 – Current Department of Physics / Associate Professor

Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

2012/9 –2019/8 Department of Physics / Assistant Professor

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

2010/9 – 2012/8 Department of Physics /Research Assistant Professor

2005/9- 2010/11 Department of Physics /Research Associate (HKUST)

Honors&Awards

Peacock Talent Project (Level C)

Selected Publication

1. Solving non-Hermitian physics for optical manipulation on a quantum computer
Light, Sci. & Appl. 14,132 (2025)
Yu-ang Fan,* Xiao Li,* Shijie Wei,* Yishan Li, Xinyue Long, Hongfeng Liu, Xinfang Nie, Jack Ng (corresponding author), Dawei Lu (corresponding author)

2. Morphology-independent general-purpose optical surface tractor beam
Nat. Commun. 15, 6836 (2024).
Neng Wang, Jack Ng (corresponding author), and Guoping Wang (corresponding author)

3. Non-Hermitian non-equipartition theory for trapped particles
Nat. Commun. 15, 1963 (2024).
Xiao Li,* Yongyin Cao,* and Jack Ng (corresponding author)

4. Creating stable trapping force and switchable optical torque with tunable phase of light
Science Advances 8, eadd6664 (2022)
Fan Nan (corresponding author), Xiao Li, Shuailong Zhang,
Jack Ng (corresponding author), and Zijie Yan (corresponding author)

5. Non-Hermitian physics for optical manipulation uncovers inherent instability of large clusters Nature Communications 12, 6597 (2021). Xiao Li, Yineng Liu, Zhifang Lin, Jack Ng (corresponding author), and C. T. Chan.