PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Lan Yang, Ph.D.
Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor
the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China
Ph.D. Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
yang@ese.wustl.edu
Office:Green Hall, Room 2120F
Phone:(314) 935-9543
Professor Yang joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis in 2007. She runs the Laboratory of Micro/Nano Photonics Research Group in the School of Engineering & Applied Science. In 2010, she earned a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and in 2011, she was honored by President Barack Obama with a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The early career award is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.
She has been serving as the editor-in-chief for Photonics Research since 2019 and started her 2nd term in 2022. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Physical Society (APS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and OPTICA (formerly OSA).
RESEARCH SCIENTISTS / POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS
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Dr. Xuefeng Jiang
Ph.D. (2014), Department of Physics Peking University, Beijing, China
Green Hall 2104 xjiang28@wustl.edu |
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Dr. Abraham Qavi, MD, PhD Chief Resident, PGY-2, Pathology & Immunology
Ph.D. (2013), Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.D. (2015), University of Illnois College of Medicine
Green Hall 2104 aqavi@path.wustl.edu |
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Huang (Steven) He M.S. Stanford University
Graduate Student, Electrical and Systems Engineering Green Hall 2104 hehuang@go.wustl.edu |
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Guangming Zhao
B.S. Physics Department University of Science and Technology of China
Graduate Student, Electrical and Systems Engineering Washington University Green Hall 2104 zhaog@wustl.edu
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Weijian Chen
B.S. Physics Department University of Science and Technology of China
Graduate Student, Electrical and Systems Engineering Washington University Green Hall 2104 wchen34@wustl.edu |
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Linhua (Leon) Xu
B.S. Materials Science and Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering Green Hall, Room 2104 linhua.xu@wustl.edu |
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Xiangyi Xu
M.S. University of Science and Technology of China
Graduate Student, Electrical and Systems Engineering Green Hall, Room 2104 xiangyi.xu@wustl.edu |
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Yihang Li B.Eng Electrical Engineering Tsinghua University
McDonnell International Scholars Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering Green Hall, Room 2104 xiangyi.xu@wustl.edu |
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Changqing Wang
B.Eng. Microelectronics Tsinghua University
McDonnell International Scholars Graduate Student, Electrical and Systems Engineering Green Hall, Room 2104 lchikwetu@wustl.edu |
VISITING SCHOLARS
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Jing ZHANG,
Associate Professor Department of Automation Tsinghua University, Beijing, China jing-zhang@tsinghua.edu.cn |
VISITING STUDENTS
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Yunqi Hu
Visiting Ph.D. Student Department of Physics Tsinghua University, China huyq14@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn |
UNDERGRADUATES
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Zaneta Belay
Undergraduate Student Electrical and Systems Engineering Washington University zaneta.belay@wustl.edu |
ALUMNI
Fangjie Shu Visiting Professor (2016-2017) |
Associate Professor School of Physics and Electrical Information Shangqiu Normal University, Henan, China |
Victor Chiang Undergraduate student 2015-2016 |
Undergraduate student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science , Washington University |
Eshan Kim Undergraduate student 2013-2016 |
Undergraduate student, Biomedical engineering Department, Washington University |
Huzeyfe Yilmaz Ph.D. 2017 |
Post-doc, MEMS Department, Washington University |
Dr. Sahin Kaya Ozdemir Post-doc, 2009-2015 Research Associate Professor, 2015-2016 |
Research Associate Professor, Electrical and Systems Engineering Department, Washington University |
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Tao Wang Visiting student, 2015-2016 |
Graduate student, Tsinghua University, China |
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Sho Kasumie Visiting Student., 2016 |
OIST Ph.D. Student |
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Yulong Liu Visiting Student, 2015 |
Graduate student, Tsinghua University, China |
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Bo Peng Ph.D., 2015 |
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
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Jiangang Zhu Ph.D., 2011,Postdoc, 2014 |
Los Alamos National Lab |
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Fatih Ozaydin Visiting Professor, 2014 |
Assistant Professor |
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Liang Lu Visiting Professor, 2014 |
Associate Professor
Physics department, Anhui University, China |
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Chuan Wang Visiting Professor, 2013-2014 |
Associate professor
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,
China
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Fang Bo Visiting Professor, 2013-2014 |
Associate Professor, Applied Physics School and School of Physics, Nankai University, China
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Faraz Monifi Ph.D. 2014 |
Postdoc, ECE. University of California, San Diego |
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Junsoo Park Undergraduate 2013-2014 |
Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA |
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Xiaofei Liu Visiting student, 2013-2014 |
Graduate student, Tsinghua University, China |
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Xu Yang Visiting student, 2012-2013 |
Graduate student, Tsinghua University, China |
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Fuchuan Lei Visiting student, 2011-2012 |
Graduate student, Tsinghua University, China |
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Post-doc 2007-2008 |
Professor, School of Physics, Peking |
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Venkat Gaddam M.S. 2009 |
Senior Electrical Engineer | Medtronic, Inc. |
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Lina He Ph.D. 2012 |
TE Connectivity |
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Woosung Kim Ph.D. 2013 |
Manufacturing Engineer at Silicon Photonics Service Group. INTEL |
| Jake Friedlein undergraduate (2011-2012), | graduate student, U. of Colorado at Boulder |
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Zhangdi Huang visiting student from (2010-11) |
graduate student, Nanjing University (China) |
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Meron Tesfaye REU (2011) |
graduate student,UC Berkely |
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Michael Akenhead REU (2011) |
graduate student, U. Kentucky |
Contact:
Prof. Lan Yang
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
- Campus Box 1042, Washington University
- Saint Louis, MO 63130
- Email: yang@seas.wustl.edu
Phone: 314-935-9543, Fax: 314-935-7500