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Yang Wang

Duquesne University
Education
Ph.D., Physics, Florida Atlantic University
Profile

Yang Wang received his B.S. in Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China and an M.E. in Electronic Physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also obtained an M.S. in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Florida Atlantic University. He holds a primary appointment as Senior Computational Scientist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center since 1996 and is an Adjunct Faculty in the Physics Department of Duquesne University since 2010. He has received the 1998 Gordon Bell Prize for high performance computing and the Year 2000 Smithsonian Computerworld Program Award.
 

Research

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Metals and Ceramics Division, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oak Ridge, TN, 1993 ~ 1996
Developed a linear scaling quantum mechanical simulation code to study electronic and magnetic structures of metals and alloys.  this code became the first scientific application package that exceeds the teraflop performance and won the first place of 1998 Gordon Bell Prize for high performance computing and the Year 2000 Smithsonian Computerworld Program Award.
Applied massively parallel supercomputing technology to alloy modeling and design.

Students

Title Position Email
Xianglin Liu Postdoctoral Fellow xianglil@andrew.cmu.edu
Most Cited Publications

"Order-N Multiple Scattering Approach to Electronic Structure Calculations." Yang Wang, GM Stocks, WA Shelton, DMC Nicholson, Z Szotek, WM Temmerman. Physical review letters.
"Order-N multiple scattering approach to electronic structure calculations." Yang Wang, GM Stocks, WA Shelton, DMC Nicholson, Z Szotek, WM Temmerman. Physical review letters.
"Imaging columns of the light elements carbon, nitrogen and oxygen with sub Ångstrom resolution." C Kisielowski, CJD Hetherington, YC Wang, R Kilaas, MA O’keefe, A Thust. Ultramicroscopy.
"Sub-Ångstrom high-resolution transmission electron microscopy at 300 keV." MA O’keefe, CJD Hetherington, YC Wang, EC Nelson, JH Turner, C Kisielowski, J-O Malm, R Mueller, J Ringnalda, M Pan, A Thust. Ultramicroscopy.
"The Applications of Targeting Anti-Cancer Agents in Cancer Therapeutics." Guang-Chun Sun, Xu Yang, Yan Yu, Dai-Wei Zhao. Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry (Formerly Current Medicinal Chemistry-Anti-Cancer Agents).

Recent Publications

"Gata6 promotes hair follicle progenitor cell renewal by genome maintenance during proliferation." Alex B Wang, Ying V Zhang, Tudorita Tumbar. The EMBO journal.
"Molecular regulation of hair follicle stem and progenitor cell homeostasis." Alex Bing Wang. Cornell University.
"Imprinted DNA methylation reconstituted at a non-imprinted locus." David H Taylor, Chelsea M McLean, Warren L Wu, Alex B Wang, Paul D Soloway. Epigenetics & chromatin.
"The relationship between atmospheric lead emissions and aggressive crime: an ecological study." Mark Patrick Taylor, Miriam K Forbes, Brian Opeskin, Nick Parr, Bruce P Lanphear. Environmental health.
"Thermodynamic properties of refractory high entropy alloys." Hongquan Song, Fuyang Tian, Dongping Wang. Journal of Alloys and Compounds.