Yang Wins 2024 CUAFA Young Investigator Award

Professor Yuan Yang is the recipient of the Columbia University Asian Faculty Association’s (CUAFA) 2024 Young Investigator Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding Columbia faculty members of Asian heritage and allies.

Yuan Yang is currently an associate professor of materials science in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. He received his B.S. in physics at Peking University in 2007, followed by Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Stanford University in 2012. After three years as a postdoc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, he joined Columbia University in 2015. His research focuses on materials designs for energy applications, including energy storage, thermal management and chemical separation. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers with a total citation of over 30,000 times and a H-index of 65. He was a Scialog fellow on Advanced Energy Storage. He won Materials Today Rising Star Award in 2022, 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award in 2021, and MIT Technology Review 35 under 35 – China in 2019.

CUAFA honored Prof. Yang, along with Prof. Mae M. Ngai, the recipient of CUAFA’s 2024 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, on February 24th at the Third Annual Fundraising & Gala