Principle Investigator
Weijian Yang
wejyang at ucdavis.edu
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2013
B.S. Peking University, Beijing, 2008
Bio
Professor Yang is an associate professor at University of California, Davis in the department of electrical and computer engineering. He received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering and computer science from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2008, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2013. From 2014 to 2017, He was with the department of biological sciences at Columbia University, NY, USA as a postdoctoral researcher, and worked on optical microscopy for brain imaging and modulation, neurotechnologies and neurosciences. He started his lab at University of California, Davis in late 2017.
His research interests lie at the intersection of electrical engineering, biomedical engineering and neuroscience. Specifically, he is interested in optical microscopy, biophotonics, integrated optics and optoelectronics, neuroengineering and using advanced technologies to study the functional organization and plasticity of neural circuits. He published more than 80 papers in journals and conference proceedings. He is a recipient of the Career Awards at the Scientific Interface from Burroughs Wellcome Fund in 2016, and the NSF Early Career Award in 2019.
Graduate Students
Feng Tian (PhD Student, ECE)
Zixiao Zhang (PhD Student, ECE)
Ben Mattison (PhD Student, BME)
Shu Guo (PhD Student, ECE)
Yifei Sun (PhD Student, ECE)
Gabriel Ceja (Master Student, ECE)
Undergraduates
Shengxian Hao (ECE)
Alumni
Former PhD Students
Junjie Hu, PhD. 2023 (Engineer, ASML)
Kangning Zhang, PhD. 2024 (Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University)
Yunyang Li, PhD. 2024 (Engineer, Meta Platforms)
Shing-Jiuan Liu, PhD. 2024 (Engineer, Johnson & Johnson)
Former Master Students
Tianqi Zhu, MS. 2019 (Engineer, Verizon Media)
Yihang Jiao, MS. 2020 (PhD)
Yuehong Chen, MS. 2021
Naman Nanda, MS. 2022
Ziyang Chen, MS. 2023
Boxue Niu, MS. 2024
Jiaqi Tu, MS. 2024
Former Undergraduate Students
Zachary Nelson, BS. 2020 (PhD student, University of California at Santa Barbara)
Matthew Cheung, BS. 2020 (PhD student, Rice University)
Laura Shimabukuro, BS. 2020 (PhD student, University of Southern California)
Michelle Choi, BS. 2020
Zizheng Jia, BS. 2022 (MS student, Columbia University)
Former Visiting Students
Zheyuan Ma (Undergraduate student, University of Science and Technology of China)
Alexander C. Hasnain (PhD student, Johns Hopkins University)
Yuanyou Xu (Undergraduate student, Zhejiang University)
Yile Sun (Undergraduate student, Zhejiang University)
Zhihai Lin (Undergraduate student, University of Science and Technology of China)
Yueyang Pan (Undergraduate student, Zhejiang University)