Kiyoul YangAssistant ProfessorHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Group leader of Y-LAB

email: kiyoul at seas dot harvard dot edu 
Identifiers: Web of Science Research ID AAI-4141-2020, ORCID 0000-0002-0587-3201

Research interest: Integrated Photonic-Electronic systems
Integrated Nonlinear Optics at Quantum or Classical Scale; Integrated Nonlinear Multimode Photonics; Photonic integrated circuits with inverse design; Nanofabrications; Photonic Systems for Computation, Spectroscopy, Sensing, Communications, and Metrology.

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering Caltech (Ph.D. thesis) 2017
M.S. in Electrical Engineering KAIST 2010
B.A. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science KAIST  2008

Academic Experience

Harvard   Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 2023-
Stanford  Postdoc/ Research Scientist (with J.Vučković) 2018-2021/ 2021-2022
Caltech   Graduate Research Assistant/ Postdoc (with K.Vahala) 2011-2017/ 2017-2018
 

- Research Visitor:
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (with P.Del'Haye; 2022), UCF CREOL (with P.Delfyett; 2022&2021), 
NIST (with S.Diddams; 2014), Imperial College London (with S.Maier; 2010) 

Distinctions & Fellowships

DARPA Young Faculty Award  2023.10
Herbert Walther Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light  2022.09
Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence AwardThe Optical Society  2020.09
Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoc Fellowship, Stanford University  2018.01
Atwood Graduate Fellowship, Caltech  2010.07

Publication Metrics 

h-index > 30, Total citation > 5000, average citations per journal article > 100 (source: google scholar).
47 Peer-reviewed journals (Nature:1, Science: 4, Nature Photonics: 10, Nature Physics: 1)
A full lis of journal publications: link

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Professional Services

Editor for Light: Science & Applications (2023 - 2025)
Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Photonics (2023 - 2025)
Guest Editor of ACS Photonics, Special Issue on Optimized Photonics and Inverse Design (2023)
Technical Program Committe at IEEE Photonics Conference (2019 - 2021), Optica Advanced Photonics Congress (2023), Conference of Lasers and Electro-Optics (2024), CLEO Pacific Rim (2024)
Regular reviewer for Nature, Science, Nature Photonics, Science Advances, Nature Computational Science, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Optica, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics etc.