Yang Yang 楊 陽 Election Year 2024 Room 2121C, Eng. V Bldg., UCLA, 410 Westwood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA Tel: 1-310-825-4052 / Fax: 1-310-206-7353
Current Positions
UCLA Distinguished Professor, and The Carol and Lawrence Tannas Jr. Chair Professor
Education
B.S.: Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, 1982
MS & Ph.D.: Physics and Appl. Physics, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, 1988 and 1992, respectively
Postdoc: Department of Chemistry, UC Riverside, Dec. 1991 – Sept. 1992
Assistant Professor (1997 - 1998), Associate Professor (1998 - 2002), and Professor (2002 - now), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA
Carol and Lawrence Tannas Jr. Chair Professor in Engineering, UCLA; July 2012 – present
Chair Professor, Dean of School of Engineering, Westlake University; July 2019 – October 2020
UCLA Distinguished Professor, July 2019 – now
UCLA, Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, July 2024 - now
Specialties
Organic/perovskite materials and thin-film solar cells, metal oxide transistors
Awards and Honors
Important Awards
•NSF Career Award (1998)
•IEEE Photovoltaic Expert Award, (2009)
•The Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, (2011)
•Distinguished Achievement Award, 南加州華人科學工程協會(CESASC)(2016)
•Ranked #3 on the World Top Ten Research Groups on the perovskite solar cell research by the Times Higher Education (THE) (2018)
•Sustainable Energy Award. UK Royal Society of Chemistry (2019)
•Highly Cited Researcher in three major fields: Materials Science, Chemistry, and Physics, Clarivate Analytics (Only ~25 people world-wide elected, 2017, 2018)
•Joined the Advanced Materials Hall of Fame (Wiley) (2021)
•NCKU (成功大學) Distinguished Alumni Award(2016), NCKU Honorary Chair Professor(2022)
Fellows and Member of Society
•Fellows of SPIE (2013); Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2014); Materials Research Society (MRS) (2015); American Physical Society (APS) (2015); AAAS (2019)
•Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2021)