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Eui Hyeok Yang

Eui Hyeok Yang

Professor
Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Biography

Eui Hyeok Yang is a full professor of Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree from Ajou University, Korea. After his postdoctoral training at University of Tokyo and at California Institute of Technology, he joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where he became a Senior Member of the Engineering Staff. In recognition of his excellence in advancing the use of MEMS-based actuators for NASA's space applications, he received the prestigious Lew Allen Award for Excellence at JPL in 2003. His scholarly leadership has been recognized by peers. Examples of these efforts include appointment as an Associate Editor and/or Editorial Board of several journals including Nature’s Scientific Reports, and election as the Division Chair of the ASME MEMS Division. Since joining Stevens in 2006, he has been responsible for obtaining competitive research funding from several federal agencies including NSF, AFOSR, US Army, NRO, NASA and DARPA (including 6 NSF and 3 AFOSR grants, and 5 NASA and 3 NRO contracts). Dr. Yang holds over 12 patents (issued or pending). Dr. Yang is the director of the Micro Device Laboratory, a Stevens's multi-user microfabrication facility.


Research Interest

1D and 2D materials, electronics, photonics, energy, growth and nanofabrication of graphene, carbon electronics and TMD heterostructures, tunable wetting and surface interaction

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