Principle Investigator (PI)
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics & Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
Email: yang@psu.edu
Phone: +1-814-865-5070
Office: N243, Millennium Science Complex
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Short Bio: Dr. Yang joined The Pennsylvania State University (University Park Campus) in June 2021 as an assistant professor. Dr. Yang conducted postdoctoral research at National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between Jan 2019 - May 2021. He received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT in 2019. During his Ph.D. study, he was a visiting student at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory for more than two years to conduct in-situ environmental transmission electron microscopy studies. He received a B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2012.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., City University of Hong Kong
Research projects:
In-situ TEM, Nano-mechancis
Office: Millennium Science Complex
Graduate Student
M.Sc.Eng., Southern University and A&M College
Co-advised by Prof. Reginald Hamilton
Research projects:
Shape memory alloy
Office: Millennium Science Complex
M.Sc.Eng., Xi'an Jiaotong University
Research projects:
Corrosion
Office: Millennium Science Complex
M.Sc.Eng., Central Michigan University
Co-advised by Prof. Elzbieta Sikora
Research projects:
Corrosion, Additive Manufacturing
Office: Millennium Science Complex
B.Eng., University of Science and Technology of China
Research projects:
4D-STEM
Office: Millennium Science Complex
B.Eng. & M.Sc.Eng., The Pennsylvania State University
Research projects:
Nano-mechanics, Modeling of ion irradiation
Office: Millennium Science Complex
B.Eng., City University of Hong Kong
Research projects:
Elastic Strain Engineering
Office: Millennium Science Complex
Visiting scholar
Visiting Ph.D. student from Hanyang University, South Korea
Co-advised by Prof. Yang Yang, Prof. Mia Jin and Prof. Sangtae Kim
Research projects:
Modeling of irradiation damage in metals and alloys
Office: Hallowell Bldg
Undergraduate Student
Nuclear Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University
Research projects:
Green steel making
Office: TBD
Mechanical Engineering,
The Pennsylvania State University
Research projects:
Corrosion
Office: TBD
Alumni
Engineering Science and Mechanics,
The Pennsylvania State University
Research projects: Nano-mechanics
Experience at (EM)^2 Lab:
Undergraduate researcher (2022 - 2023)
Currently: Project Engineer at Granite Construction.
Team members:
Madeline Cannon (MatSE), Weipeng Hu (CMPSC), Joshua Haines (CMPSC), Jack Jenny (ME), Arpit Singla (CMPSC), Shuhao Xu (CMPSC), and Qifan Yang (CMPSC)
Co-advised by Prof. Mia Jin
Projects:
Machine-learning enabled classification of material defects in transmission electron microscopy images