Haiyan Gao

Haiyan Gao is the Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics at Duke University. She served as the founding Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the Duke Kunshan University from 2015 to 2019, and also served as the Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear and Particle Physics at the Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2021 to 2024. She has published in such journals as Nature, Review of Modern Physics, and Physics Review Letters.