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Yao Yang

Miller Fellow
Cornell University, United States

Dr. Yao Yang received his B.S. at Wuhan University in 2015 and Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2021. He was co-advised by Profs. Héctor Abruña in electrochemistry and David Muller in electron microscopy, and worked extensively with Prof. Francis DiSalvo on solid-state materials. As a Miller fellow at UC Berkeley, he now works with Prof. Peidong Yang on developing operando STEM for investigating the dynamic evolution of nanocatalysts for CO2 conversion to liquid fuels.
Yao was recognized by the Wentink Award (Highest Graduate Award of Cornell Chemistry, 2020) and ACS Analytical Chemistry Diversity Colloquium (AC/DC) as the Rising Stars in Analytical Chemistry (2022). He was recently awarded the Best Early Career Presentation at the MRS Spring 2023 (Symposium CH01). He will serve as the co-chair of GRS for Gordon Liquid-Phase TEM conference in 2024.

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