Research Bio

Yuan Cao is an electrical engineer and physicist whose research focuses on quantum materials, moiré systems, and strongly correlated electron phenomena. His work explores how stacking and twisting atomically thin materials can produce novel quantum phases such as superconductivity and magnetism. He is best known for pioneering research on magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, which opened a new field in condensed matter physics. Cao’s group combines nanofabrication, spectroscopy, and transport measurements to probe quantum behavior in two-dimensional materials.
He is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley, where he leads the Reconfigurable Quantum Materials Lab.

Research Expertise and Interest

physical electronics, micro/nano electro mechanical systems, physics