Kiyoul Yang

Assistant Professor, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science

PI of Y-LAB

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Caltech, 2018

email: kiyoul at seas dot harvard dot edu

Web of Science Research ID: AAI‑4141‑2020 · ORCID: 0000‑0002‑0587‑3201

Academic Experience

Harvard Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

2023–
Stanford Postdoc/ Research Scientist

2018-2021/ 2021–2022
Caltech Graduate Research Assistant/ Postdoc

2011–2017/ 2017-2018

Distinctions & Fellowships

Young Investigator Program Award, AFOSR

2025
Young Faculty Award, DARPA

2023
Herbert Walther Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

2022
Paul F. Forman Team Engineering Excellence Award, Optica (OSA)

2020
Nano‑ and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoc Fellowship, Stanford University

2018
Atwood Graduate Fellowship, California Institute of Technology

2010

Publication Metrics

h‑index > 30, Total citations > 10,000, average citations per journal article > 100 (source: Google Scholar).

50 peer‑reviewed journals (Nature: 1, Science: 4, Nature Photonics: 9, Nature Physics: 1)

A full list of journal publications: link

Professional Services

Editor for Light:Science & Applications (2023-2028), Nanophotonics (2024-2026)

Editorial Advisory Board for ACS Photonics (2023-2025)

Guest Editor of ACS Photonics, Special Issue on Optimized Photonics and Inverse Design (2023)

Organizer of Symposium on Integrated ultrashort pulse generators (CLEO, 2025), Optical technologies for data center (CLEO, 2026)

Technical Program Committe at IEEE Photonics Conference (2019 - 2021), Optica Advanced Photonics Congress (2023), CLEO Pacific Rim (2024), CLEO (2024 - 2026)

Regular reviewer for Nature, Science, Nature Photonics, Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Optica, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics etc. (part of the extended list is in this link)