$ cat about.txt

Biography

Dr. Su Yan received his B.S. degree in Electronic Information Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2005, his Ph.D. in Electromagnetics and Microwave Technology from UESTC in 2011, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, IL, USA, in 2012 and 2016, respectively.

From August 2016 to July 2018, Dr. Yan worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Instructor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC. In August 2018, he joined Howard University in Washington, DC, USA, as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in August 2024.

In June 2020, Dr. Yan was appointed Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Howard University. Since October 2023, he has served as Director of the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center.

He has authored or co-authored over 145 papers in refereed journals and conferences, contributed to three book chapters, and edited one book. His research interests include nonlinear electromagnetics and multiphysics problems, extreme-scale and multi-scale algorithms for electromagnetic scattering and radiation, numerical methods in electromagnetic design and optimization, computational imaging, and the application of machine learning in scientific computing.

Dr. Yan is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Full Member of the US National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (USNC-URSI) Commission B and The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and a Life Member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES).

He serves on the Board of Directors for ACES from 2024 to 2027, is an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE Access, and the International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, and a Reviewer for multiple journals and conferences. He also served as a Chair/Member of Organizing Committee, Technical Program Committee, and Session Organizer for numerous international conferences.

Awards & Honors

2020

ACES Early Career Award, "For contributions to linear and nonlinear electromagnetic and multiphysics modeling and simulation methods." Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society

2020

Edward E. Altschuler AP-S Magazine Prize Paper Award, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society

2020

Faculty Scholar, Junior Faculty Writing and Creative Works Summer Academy, Howard University

2019

Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Howard University

2018

Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Computational Physics

2016

Best Student Paper Award, The First Place Winner, ACES, Honolulu, HI

2015

USNC/URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award, The National Academies (NAS)

Invited Talks

June 2024

Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications in Science and Engineering

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Feb. 2024

Computational Electromagnetics and Its Applications in Science and Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

May 2023

Computational Electromagnetics and Multiphysics Research at Howard University

NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA

Mar. 2023

Computational Electromagnetics Research at Howard University

Ansys Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

July 2021

Computational Electromagnetics Research: An Overview and Case Studies

NSF-sponsored workshop, Online Summer Research Experiences on Nanoparticles

July 2020

Computational Electromagnetics Research: An Overview and Case Studies

NSF-sponsored workshop, Online Summer Research Experiences on Nanoparticles

Professional Memberships

  • • IEEE (Senior Member)
  • • US National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (USNC-URSI) Commission B — Fields and Waves (Full Member)
  • • The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) (Full Member)
  • • Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) (Life Member, Board of Directors 2024–2027)

Curriculum Vitae

📄 Download CV (PDF)