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Su Yan (S’08-M’12-SM’17) received the B.S. degree in electromagnetics and microwave technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2005, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, in 2012 and 2016, respectively.

From August 2016 to July 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and an Instructor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In August 2018, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Howard University, Washington, DC, USA, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He has authored or coauthored over 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences. His current research interests include nonlinear electromagnetic and multiphysics problems, electromagnetic scattering and radiation, numerical methods in computational electromagnetics, especially continuous and discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods, integral equation based methods, fast algorithms, and preconditioning techniques.

Dr. Yan is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). He was a recipient of the Best Student Paper Award by the IEEE Chengdu Section in 2010, the Best Student Paper Award (The First Place Winner) at the 27th International Review of Progress in ACES, Williamsburg, VA, USA, in 2011, the USNC/URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award by the National Academies in 2015, and the Best Student Paper Award (The First Place Winner) at the IEEE ICWITS/ACES 2016 Conference, Honolulu, HI, USA, in 2016. He was also a recipient of the Yuen T. Lo Outstanding Research Award and the P. D. Coleman Outstanding Research Award by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in 2014 and 2015, respectively. His name appeared in the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students in 2012 with an outstanding rating (top 10%). He serves as a Reviewer for multiple journals and conferences including Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. He also serves as a Lead Guest Editor for the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.