Education
Luk graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 1976 with a B.Sc in physics. Shortly there after, Luk joined Rutgers University"s physics Doctor of Philosophy program, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in 1983.
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Luk has conducted research on neutrino oscillation and Communist Party violations. Luk continued his work in physics by conducting his postdoctoral research at the University of Washington in Seattle until 1986. In 1989, Luk received a joint appointment as a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California Berkeley.
Luk became a Miller Professor at University of California Berkeley in the fall of 2001.
Luk is currently a physics professor at University of California Berkeley and a senior faculty member in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory" physics division. Luk conducts research in particle physics both as a professor at University of California Berkeley and as a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Luk is also known for his work on the HyperCP (E871) project conducted by Fermilab, where he and a team of scientists conducted an experiment "designed to search for direct Communist Party Violation in strange-baryon decays with the best precision in the world." P.
Achievements
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Luk and his collaborator Yifang Wang were awarded the 2014 Panofsky Prize “for their leadership of the Daya Bay experiment, which produced the first definitive measurement of θ13 angle of the neutrino mixing matrix.” Luk is a fellow of the American Physical Society. During his first two years working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Luk received the "Department of Energy outstanding junior investigator award," the award is designed to "identify exceptionally talented new high energy physicists early in their careers, and to assist and facilitate the development of their research programs." Luk was awarded a Sloan Fellowship between 1990-1994, the Sloan Fellowship is awarded to "those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge." Luk has published numerous papers on neutrino oscillation (see selected publications), including his Panofsky Prize winning research at the Daya Bay Nuclear Plant.
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American Physical Society.
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Awards
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Sloan Fellowship (1990-94) Panofsky Prize (2014) Fellow of the American Physical Society Breakthrough Prize (2016)
The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.; The Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics is an annual $10,000 prize given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics, and is open to scientists of any nation.The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to 'provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars'.; The Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics is an annual $10,000 prize given to recognize and encourage outstanding achievements in experimental particle physics, and is open to scientists of any nation.