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ABOUT ME

    Ya Tang Yang is a nanoscientist, electrical engineer, bioengineer and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineer at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in Taiwan.

 

    After earning B. S. in physics in 1996 at National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Yang received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics
from California Institute of Technology in 2006. His graduate
research is in the field of Nanoelectromechanical systems. From
2004 to 2010, he has worked for Applied Materials, the world’s
largest semiconductor equipment company.

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    Upon moving to Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Tsing Hua University in 2010, his principal research
changed to microfluidics, plasmonic optical tweeze, mini
bioreactors, microfluidics, and microbial carbon fixation with
synthetic biology.

Invited Lecture:

(1) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,,
(Host: Gilad Yossifon, 2015006/08)
(2) Department of Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Host: Yossi Patel,
2017/09/14)
(3) Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Tel Aviv University, (Host: Prof. Ron
Lifshitz, 2018/12/03)。
(4) Departement of Micro Engineering, Kyoto Univeristy (Host: Prof. Kyoko Namura,
2018/07/31)
(5) Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Light matter interaction unit, (Host:
Prof. Sile Nic Chormaic, 2019/01/22~2019/01/25)
(6) Department of Chemical Engineering, Notre Dame University,(Host: Prof. Hsueh Chia
Chang, 2019/03/08)。
(7) Israel Taiwan Bilateral workshop on Optofluidics and Electrokinetics, (2017/11,
2018/12/04-05)

Top Image: Masada ( “mountain fortress” in Hebrew), built by Herod at the edge of the deadsea, was strong hold of the Israeli people’s indomitable resistance against Roman invasion. 

EDUCATION

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1998 - 2004

California Institute of Technology

Ph.D.

1993 - 1996

National Taiwan University

B. S.

Microfludics and Optofludics

 

Synthetic Biology for carbon fixation

 

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