Jenn-Ming Yang

PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA. Professor Yang has over 20 years of research and teaching experience in mechanical behavior of metallic and composite materials for aerospace structural and propulsional applications. He has performed research in material processing and process simulation, microstructural characterization and mechanical testing, micromechanical modeling, and life prediction. He received the Presidential Young Investigator’s Award from the National Science Foundation in 1990 as well as the R&D 100 Award. He has been the PI/co-PI for various federal-funded research programs, including NSF, FAA, ARO, AFOSR, NIST, and NASA. Professor Yang has published over 200 technical papers in mechanical behavior of composite materials, high-temperature materials for aerospace structures and nanostructured materials and nanomechanical testing.