Yanan (Laura) Wang

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Yanan (Laura) Wang

Assistant Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
SEC C290CC
Lincoln, NE 68588-0511
Phone
402-472-3771 On-campus 2-3771
Email
yanan.wang@unl.edu
Website

Education

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Houston, 2014
  • B.S. in Physics, Nankai University, 2009

Honors and Awards

  • COE Edgerton Rising Faculty Award, 2026
  • U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, 2025
  • NSF EPSCoR Research Fellows Program Award, 2025
  • Optica Senior Member, Class of 2025
  • Nebraska EPSCoR FIRST Award, 2022
  • APS Career Mentoring Fellow, Class of 2022

Research Interest

  • Quantum Materials, Two-Dimensional Materials, Wide-Bandgap Materials
  • Integrated Photonics & Phononics
  • Nano-/Microelectromechanical Systems (NEMS/MEMS)
  • Photophysics and Optical Spectroscopy

Courses Developed

  • ECEN 486/886: Fundamentals of Photonics
  • ECEN 491/891: Quantum Communication and Quantum Computation
  • ECEN 498: Quantum Programming for STEM