Professor Hong Yang named Richard C. Alkire Professor in Chemical Engineering
February 19th, 2015
Professor Hong Yang has been named the inaugural Richard C. Alkire Professor in Chemical Engineering effective spring 2015.
Professor Hong Yang
The Richard C. Alkire Professorship was established in honor of Professor Alkire, who joined the Department in 1969 and has had a long and distinguished career at Illinois. Alkire, a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1988, holds the rank of Charles and Dorothy Prizer Chair Emeritus. He continues to be very active in the Department and the academic community today, well beyond his official retirement in 2008. The endowment for the Alkire Professorship was provided anonymously.
Yang said he is honored and humbled to be named as the Richard C. Alkire Professor of Chemical Engineering.
"The excellence of Dr. Alkire’s life-long research at Illinois speaks volumes, which will be the guide and inspiration for me to carry on with my own," he said. "I am also very grateful to the anonymous donor whose generosity makes this professorship possible.”
Professor Yang, received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Toronto. After a postdoc at Harvard, he was on the faculty at the University of Rochester until 2011. In 2012 he joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Illinois.
The Alkire Professorship recognizes Yang’s outstanding scholarship in the field of nanotechnology, particularly in innovation in the synthesis of nanomaterials of well-defined structure and composition. Yang is a world leader in the synthesis of bi- and multi-metallic Pt-based nanostructures, which are heavily being researched for a range of catalytic applications including fuel cells.
An investiture will be held later this year.
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Resume：
Hong Yang
Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Affiliate, Department of Chemistry
Affiliate, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
Section Editor on Nanotechnology, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
Education
• NSERC Postdoc Fellow, Harvard University (with Prof. G. M. Whitesides), 1998-2001
• Ph.D., University of Toronto (with Prof. G. A. Ozin), 1998
• M.Sc., University of Victoria, 1994
• B.Sc., Tsinghua University, 1989
Experience
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Full Professor, 2012-
• University of Rochester, Department of of Chemical Engineering, Assistant (2001-2006), Associate (2006-2011), and Full Professor (2011)
• University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Scientist (2002-2011)
Honors and Awards
• SKIPER Global Vision Lecturership, IPE, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2015
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Science China Materials (Springer), 2014
• Editorial Board Member, ChemNanoMat (VCH-Wiley), 2014
• Alumni Commencement Speaker, Chemistry, Tsinghua University, 2014
• Most Cited Article in Nano Today published between 2009-2014, access to the journal website in 2014
• Guest Editor, ChemSusChem, 2013
• Guest Editor, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2013
• TDF Inaugural Award, University of Rochester, 2011
• Visiting Tengfei Professorship, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 2010-2012
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Nano Today, 2009-
• Guest Editor, Advanced Materials, 2007
• NSF CAREER Award, 2005
• NSERC Doctoral Prize, 1999
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1998-2000
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1997-1998
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship,1996-1997
• Open Doctorial Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1995-1996
• Connaught Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1994-1995
Career Development Activity and Service
• Symposium (co-)organizer:
？ Continuing Symposia Co-Chair, American Chemical Society, Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Symposia Q. Nanoparticles and Nanostructured Materials, (2009-).
？ Fuel Cell, International Conference on Innovative Electrochemical Energy Materials and Technologies (EEMT2015), 2015
？ Synthesis and Architecture of Nanomaterials, ICMAT, Singapore, 2015
？ 2014 International Symposium on Electrochemical Energy, Shanghai, China, 2014
？ Material Design for Energy Storage and Conversion, 15th Asian Chemistry Congress meeting, Singapore, 2013
？ 7th Sino-US Nano Workshop, Xiamen, China, 2012
？ Symposium on Nanotechnology: Synthesis, Properties and Applications of Noble Metal Nanostructures, Materials Science & Technology 2011 Conference and Exhibition (MS&T'11), Columbus, Ohio, 2011
？ Symposium on Nanoparticle and Nanostructured Materials for Energy Applications, ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, 2011
？ Symposium on Nanocrystalline Materials as Precursors for Complex Multifunctional Structures through Chemical Transformations and Self Assembly, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, 2009.
？ Nanoscale Synthesis, The 82nd ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, Raleigh, NC, 2008.
？ Symposium on Ionic Liquids in the Materials Synthesis and Application, MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, 2008.
？ Self-Assembly to Patterning, 232nd American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, 2006.
？ Multifunctional Nanomaterials and Nanostructures, Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting, San Francisco, 2005.
• Conference session (co-)chair:
？ 9th Sino-US Nano Forum, Tianjin, July, 2014
？ 2014 International Symposium on Electrochemical Energy, Shanghai, July, 2014
？ 5th World Hydrogen Technologies Convention, Shanghai, September, 2013
？ China Nano 2013, Beijing, September, 2013
？ 15th Asian Chemical Congress, Singapore, August, 2013
？ 8th Sino-US Nano Forum, Hangzhou, China, June, 2013
？ 245th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, April 2013
？ 7th Sino-US Nano Workshop, Xiamen, June 2012
？ 243th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2011
？ MS&T'11 Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 2011
？ Particle 2010, Orlando, FL, May 2010
？ MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2010
？ AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, November, 2009
？ 4th Sino-US Nano Meeting, July, 2009
？ MRS Sprign Meeting, April 2009
？ 82th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, June 2008
？ MRS Spring Meeting, March 2008
？ 80th ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium, June 2006
？ Particle 2006, May 2006
？ MRS Spring Meeting, April 2005
？ Particle 2004, March, 2004
？ MRS Fall Meeting, November 2003
？ MRS Spring Meeting, April 2003
• Panelist and grant proposal reviewer: National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), American Chemical Society (ACS), Army Resarch Office (ARO), US Deaprtment of State, Research Corporation, etc.
• Journal reviewer (from over sixty journals): Science, Nature Communications, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry B and C, ACS Catalysis, ACS Nano, Langmuir, Chemistry of Materials, Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Industrial and Chemical Engineering Research, Acc. Chem. Res., Nano Today, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie, Small, Chemistry-A European Journal, ChemPhysChem, Chemical Physics Letters, Chem Commun, JMC, Nanotechnology, Appl. Phys. Lett., Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, etc.
Professional Affiliation
• Materials Research Society (MRS),1998-present.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1998-present.
• American Chemical Society (ACS), 1999-present.
• American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), 2002-present.
