Researcher

Joel K. W. Yang was formerly a Principal Scientist at A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE). He received his Master of Science (2005) and PhD (2009) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently a Professor in the Engineering Product Development pillar at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He is recognised for pioneering work in plasmonic color printing, achieving record-level printing resolution at 100,000 dpi and credited for the widely-used ‘salty-developer’ to improve the resolution of electron beam lithography. His research interests include nanoplasmonics, 2D and 3D printed nano optical design elements (NODE) and sub-10-nm resolution lithography. He served as Associate Editor of Science Advances and Associate Editor of Optics Express, and was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Photonics. He is Fellow of OSA The Optical Society, NRF Investigator (class of 2020) and A*STAR Investigator (2010). His accolades include the IPS Nanotechnology Medal and Prize (Institute of Physics Singapore), MIT Technology Review TR35 award and the Singapore Young Scientist Award.