Yang receives the 2023-2024 Dean’s Award for Early Innovation – Assistant Professor! This award recognizes exceptional individuals who are working at the early stages of the innovation life cycle to turn their research into products that benefit the world.
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Yang receives the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research!
Yang receives the 2023-2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research – Assistant Professor! This award recognizes outstanding research during the past year and is presented annually by the Grainger College of Engineering.
Yang gives an invited webinar of the “Photothermal Microscopy and Spectroscopy Webinar” series
Yang delivered an invited talk at the esteemed Photothermal Microscopy and Spectroscopy Webinar series. to Subhasis Adhikari, Andrea Kramer, Frank Cichos, and Michel Orrit for extending this invitation and for their exceptional work in organizing this insightful seminar series.
Check out the “Photothermal Microscopy and Spectroscopy Webinar” organized by the University of Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. There are many interesting talks!
Yang gives an invited talk at MRS Fall Meeting
Yang presented an invited talk on our recent research on “Nanophotonic Force Nanoscopy for Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of Nanostructures”. Thank you to the EL 08 organizers for the invitation!

Our paper is published in Nature Communications!
I am thrilled to announce the publication of our latest paper, ‘Visualizing ultrafast photothermal dynamics with decoupled optical force nanoscopy‘, in Nature Communications! A big shout-out and congratulations to all the authors, and heartfelt thanks to Prof. Catherine Murphy’s and Prof. Yun-Sheng Chen’s teams for their amazing collaboration in making this happen.
See the press release here: https://bit.ly/3GC8OGW
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/BeckmanInst/status/1734622771831832951
Threads: https://www.threads.net/@beckmaninstitute/post/C0wtLWLrhZr
Our paper is highlighted by March issue of Advanced Materials & Processes magazine: https://static.asminternational.org/amp/202403/12/
Congratulations to Hanwei, Xiaodong, and Josh, for winning the Best Project Award at IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference!
I am thrilled to announce that my students, Henry (Hanwei) Wang, Xiaodong Ye, and Josh Yu, have been awarded the prestigious Best Project Award at the IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference and Expo! This is an outstanding achievement and a testament to their exceptional talent, creativity, dedication, and teamwork. I am beyond excited and immensely proud of this extraordinary team! Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition!

Yang receives 2023 Engineering Council Outstanding Advisors Award!
Yang is recognized as one of the top 10% of engineering advisors selected by their students!
Our collaborated work is published in Nature Communications!
We are proud to be part of the groundbreaking research, “Hybrid photoacoustic and fast super-resolution ultrasound imaging”, recently published in Nature Communications! Congratulations to the first author, Shensheng Zhao, and the rest of the team for their outstanding work and contributions. For more details on this exciting development, please visit the following link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37680-w.
Yang co-organizes MRS Spring Symposium on Plasmonics and Metamaterials
Thank you, Howard Lee, Pin-Chieh Wu, Yao-Wei Huang, for a great conference!

Hanwei receives the prestigious Hong, McCully and Allen Fellowship!
Congratulations to my graduate student, Hanwei Wang, for being awarded the prestigious Hong, McCully and Allen Fellowship! This is a well-deserved recognition of Hanwei’s hard work and dedication to research. We are proud to have Hanwei as part of our team and look forward to seeing the impact of his work. Congratulations again, Hanwei!