We are thrilled about the appointment of Professor Yi Yang as the Belinda Hung Outstanding Young Professor.
Outstanding Young Professorships were featured for the first time at the Thirteenth Inauguration of Endowed Professorships held by The University of Hong Kong (HKU) on 25 November 2024, celebrating six new Endowed Professorships and two new Outstanding Young Professorships. Professor Yi Yang, the HKIQST fellow was gifted the Belinda Hung Outstanding Young Professorship.
Professor Yang’s contributions have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the 2024 Xplorer Prize and the 2024 Croucher Tak Wah Mak Innovation Award for Pioneering Photonics Research. His accolades also include being named a Physical Science Fellow in the 2023 Asian Young Scientist Fellowship, being recognized as one of the Innovators under 35 (China) by MIT Technology Review in 2022 and receiving the 2022 Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, an organization managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
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