Lan Yang

Lan Yang is a Chinese-born physicist specializing in optics.

This article is about the scientist. For the media executive, see Yang Lan.
Lan Yang
Born
China
Alma materUniversity of Science and Technology of China
California Institute of Technology
Known forNon-Hermitian photonics, optical sensing, and nanophotonics
AwardsCAREER Award
PECASE
OSA Fellow
APS Fellow
AAAS Fellow
IEEE Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsApplied physics
Electrical engineering
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis

Lan Yang earned her bachelor's and first master's of science degrees at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and 1999, respectively.[1][2] She completed a second master's degree in materials science at the California Institute of Technology in 2000, and remained at Caltech to pursue a doctorate in applied physics, which she obtained in 2005.[3] Lan Yang began teaching at the Washington University in St. Louis in 2007, as an assistant professor. She became an associate professor in 2012, then a full professor in 2014, as Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering.[3] From January 2019, Lan Yang served as editor in chief of the journal Photonics Research.[4]

Lan Yang received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2010, followed by a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers the next year.[2] She was elected a fellow of the Optical Society in 2017, "for seminal contribution in nanophotonics and photonic sensing."[5] In 2020, the American Physical Society awarded her an equivalent honor, "for seminal contributions to non-Hermitian photonics, optical sensing, and nanophotonics."[6][7]

References
  1. "Lan Yang". Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Physics.
  2. "Lan Yang". Washington University in St. Louis McKelvey School of Engineering. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  3. ORCID 0000-0002-9052-0450
  4. "Yang named editor-in-chief of Photonics Research". Washington University in St. Louis. 10 January 2019. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  5. "2017 OSA Fellows". Optical Society. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  6. "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  7. "Yang named 2020 APS Fellow". Washington University in St. Louis. 9 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020. Republished by the McKelvey School of Engineering on 13 October 2020.
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