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University of California Los Angeles

Yu Huang

  • 2026
  • Participant
  • Engineering & Technology

Yu Huang is the Traugott and Dorothea Frederking Endowed Engineering Chair and Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA.  Her research focuses on designing unique nanoscale materials for various applications. She has pioneered the bottom-up assembly of heterogeneous material structures, creating fundamentally new approaches for integrating dissimilar materials across multiple length scales, enabling advances in sustainable energy, electronics, photonics, and quantum materials.