Dr. Yang Yang’s research focuses on the machine, materials, and structures development for bioinspired 3D printing. He got the NSF CAREER Award (2025), ASME Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Award (2025) and SME Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2022).
He received his B.S. in Physics from Wuhan University in 2009. He completed the joint Ph.D. at Wuhan University and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Physics and Bioengineering in 2015. Prior to joining SDSU, Dr. Yang is a Postdoc at The University of Southern California (USC) in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Center for Advanced Manufacturing. He has has authored over 75 peer-reviewed publications such as ‘Nature Communications’ ‘Science Advances’, ‘Advanced Materials’, ‘Energy &Environmental Science’, ‘Research’ and he is the reviewer of several journals such as ‘Advanced Materials’, ‘Small’, and ‘Additive Manufacturing’. His work has been supported by NSF Career, NSF and SDSU seed grants.
