Haiyan Wang
Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering
Fellow of MRS, APS, AAAS, ACerS, ASM, and NAI
School of Materials Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
Email: hwang00@purdue.edu
Research Interests
Nanostructured nitride and oxide thin film heterostructures for structural applications, radiation tolerant materials, microelectronics, optoelectronics, ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials, high temperature superconductors, solid oxide fuel cells, batteries and solar cells.
Coated superconductor materials scale-up and architectures; Flux-pinning mechanisms of nanoparticles and defects in high temperature superconductors.
Microstructural characterizations with transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution TEM, Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and XRD; in situ TEM; Materials property-microstructure correlations.
Honors
Fellow, NAI, 2020
Fellow, MRS, 2019
Richard Grace Best Faculty Research Award, Purdue University, 2018
Fellow, APS, 2017
Alumni Hall of Fame, Materials Science Engineering, NC State University, 2017
Fellow, AAAS, 2016
Fellow, ACerS, 2015
The O'Donnell Award in Engineering Category 2015, TAMEST (The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, one per year)
Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Association of Former Students (AFS) 2015.
Fellow, ASM International, Class of 2014
TEES Senior Fellow 2014
TEES Fellow 2013
ASM Silver Medal Award for Outstanding Materials Scientist in Mid Career, 2011
US Frontier of Engineering Selected Attendee (NAE FOE), 2011
Charles H. Barclay Jr. Fellow--College of Engineering Faculty Fellow Award 2011
TEES Selected Young Fellow Award 2010
NSF CAREER Award 2009.
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers 2007 (PECASE awarded in Dec. 2008).
ONR Young Investigator Program Award, ONR-YIP 2008.
Featured as one of the Rising Stars of Texas at the NANO Summit, Texas 2007.
Air Force Young Investigator Research Program Award, AFOSR-YIP 2007.
Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, AFOSR, 2007 and 2008.
TMS Young Leader representing the Electronic, Magnetic and Photonic Materials Division. (Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, TMS 2005)
Lab Director Funded Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2002-2004).
Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (Fall 2001, Boston)
Education
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2002
M. S., Materials Science & Engineering, Institute of Metal Research, Shenyang, China, 1999
B. S., Materials Science & Engineering, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China, 1998