Prof. YANG Yansong Received 2025 IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award
Prof. YANG Yansong, Assistant Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, has been selected as the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Ultrasonics Early Career Investigator Award by the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society.
This prestigious award honors the achievements of a young researcher (within 10 years of research after obtaining the highest degree) in the area of ultrasonics and its applications, with only one recipient selected each year since its establishment in 2013.
Prof. Yang is recognized “for pioneering contributions to ultra-wide-spectrum piezoelectric MEMS devices, which have impacted both academia and industry”. The award was presented at the 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, which was held in Utrecht, Netherlands, on September 15-18.
Prof. Yang joined HKUST in early 2022. Prior to that, he was a postdoc research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he received his PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering in 2019 and 2017 respectively. He gained his BS degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2014.
He established the Radio Frequency Microsystem (RFMY) lab at HKUST. The lab focuses on research into multi-physics microsystem technologies that integrate electrical, mechanical, and acoustic domains, with the goal of enabling single-chip platforms for signal processing, sensing, and computation. Current research encompasses design methodologies, nano- and microscale fabrication techniques, as well as AI design and AI manufacturing of next-generation ultrasonic and radio-frequency microelectromechanical systems (ultrasonic/RF MEMS). The lab develops high-performance MEMS devices such as ultrasonic transducers, resonators, filters, delay lines, and switches, which are widely applied in ultrasonic sensing and energy transfer, high-frequency wireless communications, and integrated computing systems. This capability supports the advancement of emerging technologies such as 6G, low-earth-orbit satellite communications, edge computing, and intelligent sensing.
Prof. Yang is one of the pioneers in developing 5G and mmWave piezoelectric acoustic devices and contributes to the commercialization of thin-film lithium niobate 5G/6G filters. His works have been awarded best paper awards six times and best paper finalists two times in top-tier international conferences. He received the 2022 Microwave Prize from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society and the 2023 Early Career Award from the IEEE Electron Devices Society, among others.
