Hi, I am Xiang Yang. Just call me Philip if you feel easier.I came from Taiyuan, China. I enjoyed 18-years life in my hometown and miss it every moment.

In 2004, I was lucky to join Tsinghua University and accomplish my B.S. degree in Physics in 2008. Strict training on Physics and Mathematics greatly assists my following research. My dissertation is a theoretical work to develop “An Optical Approach to detect 2D spin current in GaAs system” under instruction of Prof. Bangfen Zhu and Jing Wang. Later in 2008, I went to Physics Department in University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Sunny life around La Jolla shore makes me a sunny man. I got my M.S. degree in Physics in 2009. Here I was lucky to meet Prof. Congjun Wu, who impressed me a lot and exhibited a much more beautiful physics world to me during the time I stayed in UCSD. He is my idol.

I am currently a third year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering in University of Pennsylvania. My advisor is Prof. I-Wei Chen. I am involved in two unrelevent projects. One is resistive random access memory (RRAM), the other is traditional ceramics.

I am a self-confident, fast learner. I am good at absorbing others' experiences and advices, transforming to my own and then pushing them to a higher, better stage. I am also confident in touching unknown things which interests me. I took several courses in which I have zero knowledge at the beginning (they were totally unrelevent to my own research), but every time it turns out I am able to be the best student at the end of the semester.