Rate My Professor Fengyuan Yang

Fengyuan Yang is a Professor in the Department of Physics at The Ohio State University, having joined the faculty in 2003 as an Assistant Professor, promoted to Associate Professor in 2010, and to full Professor in 2015. He serves as Director of the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM) and Associate Director of the Institute for Materials Research (IMR). Earlier in his career, Yang held the position of Associate Research Scientist at the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins University from 2001 to 2003. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University in 2001, an M.S. in Physics from the same institution in 1998, and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992. Yang has contributed to leadership roles such as co-lead of IRG-3 and member of the Executive Committee of the OSU Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), Ohio State University Senator, organizer of focus topics at American Physical Society March Meetings, and member of the External Advisory Committee for the NSF MRSEC at the University of Texas at Austin.

Yang's research centers on novel magnetism and spintronics in epitaxial oxide films, encompassing spin pumping in Y₃Fe₅O₁₂-based structures, interfacial spin-orbit coupling, topological spin textures, Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, and electrical switching of antiferromagnetic Néel order in materials like α-Fe₂O₃. Notable publications include "Magnetic shape memory polymers with integrated multifunctional shape manipulation" (Advanced Materials, 2020), "Scaling of Spin Hall Angle in 3d, 4d, and 5d Metals from Y₃Fe₅O₁₂/Metal Spin Pumping" (Physical Review Letters, 2014), "Large magnetoresistance of electrodeposited single-crystal bismuth thin films" (Science, 1999), "Determination of the Spin Polarization of Half-Metallic CrO₂ by Point Contact Andreev Reflection" (Physical Review Letters, 2001), "Antiferromagnonic spin transport from Y₃Fe₅O₁₂ into NiO" (Physical Review Letters, 2014), "Electrical Switching of Tri-State Antiferromagnetic Néel Order in α-Fe₂O₃ Epitaxial Films" (Physical Review Letters, 2020), and "Evidence of the Topological Hall Effect in Pt/Antiferromagnetic Insulator Bilayers" (Physical Review Letters, 2019). His work has advanced understanding of spin transport phenomena in ferrimagnetic insulators and antiferromagnets.