Education

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2013
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2008

Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 2022-Present
• Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 2017-2022
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2014-2017

Narrative

Weijian Yang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis in 2017. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2013, with a focus on integrated optoelectronics and nanofabricated devices. He developed the theory of high contrast grating, and incorporated it in a realm of optoelectronic devices for novel functionality, such as widely-tunable vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, fast optical phased array, and low-loss hollow-core waveguides. He joined Department of Biological Sciences as a postdoctoral research scientist in 2014, and developed holographic two-photon microscopy for 3D imaging and manipulation of neural activity in mice cortex in vivo. He investigated the organization and plasticity of neural circuits in mice cortex. Dr. Yang was a recipient of Career Award at the Scientific Interface from Burroughs Wellcome Fund in 2016, and the NSF Early Career Award in 2019.