Hang Yu
Professor
Education
- 2013 Ph.D. - Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 2007 B.S. - Physics, Peking University
Honors and Awards
- 2025: Virginia Tech Research Excellence Award
- 2024: Dean's Fellow, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech
- On the List of World's Top 2% Scientists since 2024, Standford/Elsevier
- 2022: DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Young Faculty Award
- 2019: ICTAS Junior Faculty Award, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science
- 2015: Outstanding Presentation Award, The Materials Research Society (MRS)
Professional Service
- Editor, Materialia (Acta Materialia family journal)
Book Author
- Additive Friction Stir Deposition, Elsevier, 2022.
- eBook ISBN: 9780128243954
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128243749
- Book Series: Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technologies
Book Editor
- Solid‐State Metal Additive Manufacturing: Physics, Processes, Mechanical Properties, and Applications, Wiley-VCH, 2024.
- with Nihan Tuncer (Foundation Alloy) and Zhili Feng (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)