Instructors
Yang Hui Ying
Senior Fellow, SUTD Academy
Professor and Programme Director for Nano-Electronic Engineering and Design (NEED), Engineering Product Development (EPD), Singapore University of Technology and Design
Prof Yang is a Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. She is an innovator and pioneer of advanced materials science, such as function engineering and chemical doping in low dimensional nanomaterials, for a variety of high-efficient devices and technologies with applications in sustainable energy and environment. Prof Yang’s work has had a great impact on the fundamental research of material science, chemistry/ electrochemistry and desalination. She has profound knowledge and experience in the synthesis and engineering of well-defined nanostructured materials for low-energy desalinators. Prof Yang is a Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (AAET) and Fellow of the Royal Chemistry Society (RCS).
She has been recognised by many international and national research awards, such as the prestigious IPS Nanotechnology Medal (Outstanding Nanotechnology Physics Research) (2018), Nanonica Prize (2014), Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award (2014), MCCC-AAET Green Award (2013), IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards (2013). Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors Award (2013), L’Oreal Singapore for Women in Science national Fellowship (2010), Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship (2008) and many more. Prof Yang has published more than 300 manuscripts in top international journals, including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano and Nano Letters, with more than 18000 citations and an H-index at 77.