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Raymond Chiao Title Professor School of Natural Sciences Email rchiao@ucmerced.edu Office Phone (209) 228-8662 Website http://faculty1.ucmerced.edu/rchiao Address University of California, Merced School of Engineering 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, CA 95343

Raymond Chiao is a professor jointly in the UC Merced schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering. Previously, he was a professor for 38 years at UC Berkeley, where he earned international acclaim (including the Willis E. Lamb Medal and the Einstein Prize for Laser Science) studying nonlinear and quantum optics. At UC Merced, is pursuing a new line of groundbreaking research on gravitational radiation.

• Ph. D., 1965 — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• B.S., 1961 — Princeton University