Welcome to Rui Yang group! We keep seeking talented, enthusiastic and hard-working students who would like to work on emerging nanoscale sensing and computing devices and integrated systems in the Post Moore era.
Principle Investigator (PI)
Rui Yang, Ph.D.
| Associate Professor, Ph.D. Advisor (2022-pres), Electrical Engineering, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China |
| Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Advisor (2018-2022), Electrical Engineering, UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China |
| Postdoc, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA (2016-2018) Advisor: Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong and Prof. Jonathan Fan |
| Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA (2016) Advisor: Prof. Philip X.-L. Feng |
| Awards: (1) National Excellent Young Scientist (2) 2DM Emerging Young Scientist Award from 2024 International Forum on Graphene (3) 2023 Shanghai “Rising Star” Program (4) UM-SJTU JI 2023 Research Excellence Award (5) 2019 Shanghai Sailing Program (6) 2019 “Cutting-Edge Technology Junior Faculty Award” Organized by China Association for Science and Technology (7) 2019 Forbes China “30 Under 30” Award in Science Category (8) Young Scientist Award in Microsystems & Nanoengineering Summit 2019 (MINE 2019) (9) Ruth Barber Moon Award (2015) |
| Funding Sources: (1) National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (2) National Excellent Young Scientist Funding (3) Shanghai Science and Technology Committee (STCSM), Natural Science Project General Program (4) Lingang Laboratory Open Research Funding (5) Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST) National Key Research and Development Project (6) Shanghai Jiao Tong University Major Frontier Exploration Program (7) Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Laboratory Research Funding |
| Editorial Member: (1) Editorial Board Member of Microsystems & Nanoengineering (2) Associate Editor of Micro & Nano Letters (3) Reviews Editor of Nanotechnology (4) Editorial Board Member of Chip |
Ph.D. Students
Pengcheng Zhang
| Ph.D. Student from Fall 2019 |
| B.S. from Sichuan University in 2019 |
| Research Area: Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) based on 2D materials |
Yueyang Jia
| Ph.D. Student from Spring 2021 |
| M.S. Student from Fall 2019 to Spring 2021 |
| B.S. from UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019 |
| Research Area: Nonvolatile memories and in-memory computing devices and integrated systems |
Maosong Xie
| Ph.D. Student from Fall 2020 |
| Field Application Engineer in Hangzhou Semitronix Corporation from 2019 to 2020 |
| Master Degree from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) in 2019 |
| Bachelor Degree from Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) in 2017 |
| Research Area: Memory devices based on 2D materials, with coupling to mechanics and optoelectronics |
Jianyong Wei
| Ph.D. Student from Fall 2020 |
| Master Degree from Zhengzhou University in 2020 |
| Bachelor Degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2015 |
| Research Area: Optoelectronic and memory devices based on 2D materials |
Yijian Zhang
| Ph.D. Student from Fall 2021 |
| B.S. from Dalian University of Technology in 2021 |
| Research Area: In-memory computing device and circuit design |
Zuheng Liu
| Ph.D. Student from Spring 2022 |
| M.S. Student from Fall 2020 to Spring 2022 |
| B.S. from UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020 |
| Research Area: Functional 2D NEMS devices |
Zhentao Lian
| Ph.D. Student from Fall 2020 (Joined our group in 2022) |
| Marketing in Keboda Technology Co. Ltd. from 2019 to 2020 |
| Master Degree from East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in 2019 |
| Bachelor Degree from China University of Petroleum (UPC) in 2016 |
| Research Area: Optoelectronic and memory devices based on 2D and 0D materials |
Xueqin Yang
| Ph.D. Student from Fall 2023 |
| Device engineer in Gigadevice Semiconductor Inc. from 2021 to 2023 |
| M.S. from Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021 |
| B.S. from Hohai University in 2018 |
| Research Area: Ferroelectric memory and its application in neuromorphic computing |
Shuai Yuan
| Ph.D. Student from Fall 2023 |
| B.S. from ShanghaiTech University in 2023 |
| Research Area: 2D NEMS Physical Properties and Applications |
M.S. Students
Jiahao Sun
| M.S. Student from Fall 2021 |
| B.S. from UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021 |
| Research Area: Neuromorphic computing circuit design based on emerging memories |
Minliang Shen
| M.S. Student from Fall 2022 |
| B.S. from UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2022. |
| Research Area: Nanoscale devices for memory, selector and neuromorphic computing |
Xiaoyu Guo
| M.S. Student from Fall 2023 |
| B.S. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2023 |
| Research Area: Memory and neuromorphic computing devices based on new materials |
Undergraduate Researcher
Yuzhuo Liu
| Incoming Ph.D. student starting Fall 2024 |
| Undergraduate student from UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
| Research Area: Emerging memory and computing devices and systems |
Alumni
Sheng Shen
| Now at Nvidia |
| M.S. Student from 2019 to 2022 |
| B.S. from UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2019 |
| Research Area: Selector devices for RRAMs |