Ning obtained his bachelor’s degrees at the University of Virginia and worked as a software developer in the private industry. He then pursued a master’s degree at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His internship work on the theory and simulation of Markovianity in light-matter excitation laid the foundation for his current research.This includes uncovering the impacts of static Coulomb interactions on nonlinear effects in highly-doped cavity-coupled asymmetric quantum well heterostructures.The results of these studies supplement his search for a full description of the ultrastrong light-matter coupled system’s quantum properties. This requires going beyond the semiclassical factorization scheme by taking into consideration the microscopic quantum fluctuations in the optoelectronic devices.