OU-Raman

PI: Ankun Yang

Academic Training

  • 2016-2019, Post-doctoral Research, Stanford University
  • 2016, Ph.D., Northwestern University
  • 2008, 2011, B.S., M.S., Tsinghua University

Selected Honors and Awards

  • 2026, Discovery & Innovation Grant (DIG), Oakland University
  • 2025, Outstanding Junior Investigator, Oakland University
  • 2025, Outstanding Faculty Award in Research, SECS
  • 2025, New Investigator Research Excellence Award, Oakland University
  • 2024, Launching Early-Career Academic Pathways in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (LEAPS-MPS) Award, NSF
  • 2024, ADVANCE Grant Proof of Concept Fund, Michigan Economic Development Corporation
  • 2023, Research Seed Grant, School of Engineering and Computer Science (SECS)
  • 2022, Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Award, National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • 2021, 2024, Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Research Seed Grant
  • 2021, 2023, 2025, University Research Committee Faculty Research Fellowship, Oakland University
  • 2020, Intel IMO Division Award
  • 2016, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
  • 2016, The John E. Hilliard Symposium Best Speaker Award, Northwestern University
  • 2015, Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award (GSA)
  • 2015, International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Outstanding Researcher Award
  • 2015, International Precious Metals Institute (IPMI) Honorable Mention
  • 2012, 2013, 2014, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Fellowship, Northwestern University
  • 2011, Outstanding Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, China
  • 2009, Graduate Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, China
  • 2008, Exceptional Undergraduate Award, Tsinghua University, China
  • 2005, 2006, Academic Excellence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, China

Teaching and Mentoring

  • Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentor, summer 2021, summer 2022, summer 2023
  • AERIM: AUTOMOTIVE AND ENERGY RESEARCH AND INDUSTRIAL MENTORSHIP
  • ME 4545/5545 Fundamentals of Battery Storage Systems for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
  • ME 5900/6650 Advanced Battery Materials
  • ME 3700 Properties of Materials
  • Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentor, 2015
  • Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)

Professional Activities

  • Journal Reviewer for: ACS Applied Energy Materials; ACS Applied Nano Materials; ACS Photonics; Advanced Materials; Advanced Materials Technologies; Advanced Optical Materials; Advanced Science; Advances in Optics and Photonics Angewandte Chemie; Applied Optics; Communications Physics (Nature Journal); Frontiers of Materials Science; Inorganic Chemistry; Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Journal of the American Ceramic Society; Materials Today Nano; Nano Letters; Nanoscale; Nano-Micro Letters; Optics Express; Optics Letters; Photonics; PhotoniX; Small; The Journal of Physical Chemistry
  • Advisory Board: Photonics
  • Reviewer: NSF Division of Materials Research (DMR) 2021; DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Merit Review 2021, 2022; DOE Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) Review 2024.
  • Guest editor: Photonics - Functional Nanophotonic Materials and Structures
  • Faculty Advisor: The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Detroit Student Chapter
  • Officer: The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Detroit Section
  • Seminar Organizer: Battery Congress