Lan Yang

Lan Yang is a Chinese-born physicist specializing in optics.

Lan Yang earned her bachelor's and first master's of science degrees at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1997 and 1999, respectively.[1][2] She completed a second master's degree in materials science at the California Institute of Technology in 2000, and remained at Caltech to pursue a doctorate in applied physics, which she obtained in 2005.[3] Lan Yang began teaching at the Washington University in St. Louis in 2007, as an assistant professor. She became an associate professor in 2012, then a full professor in 2014, as Edwin H. & Florence G. Skinner Professor in Electrical and Systems Engineering.[3] From January 2019, Lan Yang served as chief editor of the journal Photonics Research.[4]

Lan Yang received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2010, followed by a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers the next year.[2] She was elected a fellow of the Optical Society in 2017, "for seminal contribution in nanophotonics and photonic sensing."[5] In 2020, the American Physical Society awarded her an equivalent honor, "for seminal contributions to non-Hermitian photonics, optical sensing, and nanophotonics."[6][7]