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 Dr. Yang is Director of the multi-user Micro Device Laboratory (MDL) and an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering Department). He is currently an Associate Editor and a Member of the Editorial Board of several journals, including the IEEE Sensors Journal.
He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ajou University, Korea. In 1996, he received a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to join Fujita Lab at the University of Tokyo, Japan. After briefly visiting the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) in 1998, he joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar. He was converted to a Member of Engineering Staff in 2001, and then promoted to a Senior Member of Engineering Staff in 2002. At JPL, Dr. Yang initiated and led the development of the Piezoelectric MEMS Deformable Mirrors and Microvalves. Further, he was a Technical Monitor for a NASA SBIR project, and served as a Research Advisor for National Research Council (NRC) in the area of piezoelectric microactuators for active-mirror technologies. He received a number of awards, including NASA ICB Space Act Awards, Bonus (Level B and C) Awards and Class 1 NASA Tech Brief Awards. In recognition of his excellence in advancing the use of MEMS-based actuators for space applications, he received the prestigious Lew Allen Award for Excellence at JPL in 2003. Dr. Yang holds 10 US patents (5 pending). After joining Stevens Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor in 2006, he shifted gears to carbon-based micro/nano-opto-electo-mechanical systems utilizing carbon nanotubes, graphene and conjugated polymers. Dr. Yang is currently the PI of a number of research, education and equipment grants from NSF (including NUE, MRI), AFOSR, DURIP, US Army and NASA. He is a Member of Executive Committee in the ASME MEMS Division, and Chair/Co-Chair of Micro and Nano Systems Track of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE). He chaired the organizing committee of the Metro Area MEMS/NEMS Workshop in 2007 and 2010. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:6) |
