Prof. Haiyan Wang is
the Basil R. Turner Professor of Engineering in the School of Materials
Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue
University since 2016. She was on the faculty in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University from 2006 to 2016. Prior to
that, she was on the staff in the group of Superconductor Science and
Technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2003 to 2006, first as a
postdoc and then as a technical staff member. She also served as a program director for the Electronic
and Photonic Materials Program in the Division of Materials Science at NSF from
2013-2015.
Wang specializes in
high temperature superconductors coated conductors, heteroepitaxy of complex
nanocomposites with multifunctionality, nanostructured functional ceramics for
solid oxide fuel cells, plasmonics and photonics, ferroelectric and
multiferroics, and radiation tolerance materials, and bulk structural metals,
and ductile ceramics. She pioneered the designs of vertically aligned
nanocomposites thin films for various microelectronics and photonic
applications, and the design and processing of ductile high temperature
ceramics via non-equilibrium processing techniques. She holds 11 issued and 5
pending U.S. patents that have been licensed to multiple companies. She has
published over 755+ journal articles (with 33000 citations and an H-index of
86) and presented over 350 invited and contributed talks at various
international conferences. She serves as an associate editor for Science
Advances (since 2018). Her
major awards include TAMEST O'Donnell Award in Engineering 2015, ASM Silver Medal for
Outstanding Materials Scientist in Mid Career 2011, and PECASE 2008. Wang is a fellow of NAI, MRS, APS, AAAS,
ACerS, and ASM International.
She
is passionate in inspirational materials research and education and societal
services. She has graduated 41
Ph.D. students and 8 MS (with 6 staff members at national labs, 5
faculty members and 4 postdocs in the US universities, and 25+ as senior
processing engineers in semiconductor industry). She is currently serving on MRS Board (2023-2026).
She has served as the NSF DMR-EPM program director (2013-2015) serving 500+ PIs
and lead-organized the inaugural Federal Interagency Meeting for materials
Research (FIMAR) to facilitate
discussion among federal agency representatives in materials. She served as
committee member/secretary/chair-in-elect/chair at MRS (Award Committee,
Finance Committee, 2020-2024), ACerS (Electronic Division 2010-2016,
Publication, Awards committee 2016-present), Committee member for TMS (EPMD
2006-2010) and ASM(2011-2015), and lead organized 2 international conferences
and 10+ symposiums at international conferences.
