Yang’s lab applies advanced nanofabrication and low-temperature quantum transport techniques to study emergent quantum phenomena in low-dimensional quantum materials and their associated heterostructures. Her current interests involve around topological quantum states of matter, magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, and the interactions among them. By utilizing various forms of van der Waals materials, stacking order, and novel designs, her group engineers and probes exotic quantum states of matter, driven by both their fundamental scientific interests and potential for advanced electronics applications. 

• Quantum transport

• Topological quantum states of matter

• Unconventional superconductivity

• Design and engineering of novel materials and heterostructures

2010.09 – 2014.05  B.S., Department of Physics, Bryn Mawr College

2014.09 – 2016.05  M.S., Department of Applied Physics, Columbia University

Advisor：Cory R. Dean

2016.09 – 2020.10  Ph.D. Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics  

Advisor：Stuart S.P. Parkin

2020.12 – 2022.07  The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Postdoc, Advisor: Dmitri K. Efetov

2022.09 – 2023.10  Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Postdoc, Advisor: Sergio O. Valenzuela

2023.11 – Present  Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology, Assistant Professor

(1) “Magnetoresistance oscillations in few-layer NbSe2 in superconducting fluctuation regime”

X. Yin, C. Cao, Y. Feng, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Mei, Q.-K. Xue, S.-Y. Yang, Physical Review Letters 136,146301 (2026)

(2) “Plethora of many body ground states in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene”

S.-Y. Yang, A. Diez-Carlon, J. Diez-Merida, A. Jaoui, I. Das, G. Di Battista, R. Luque- Merino, R. Mech and D. K. Efetov, Low Temperature Physics 49, 631 (2023)

(3) “Anisotropic proximity-induced superconductivity and edge supercurrent in Kagome metal, K1-xV3Sb5”

Y. Wang, S.-Y. Yang, P.K. Sivakumar, B.R. Ortiz, S.M.L. Teicher, H. Wu, A.K. Srivastava, C. Garg, D. Liu, S.S.P. Parkin, E.S. Toberer, T. McQueen, S.D. Wilson, M. N. Ali, Science Advances 9, eadg7269 (2023)

(4) “Symmetry-broken Josephson junctions and superconducting diodes in magic angle twisted bilayer graphene”

J. Diez-Merida, A. Diez-Carlon, S.-Y. Yang, Y.-M. Xie, X.-J. Gao, J. Senior, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, X. Lu, A.P. Higginbotham, K.T. Law, D.K. Efetov, Nature Communications 14, 2396 (2023)

(5) “Giant, unconventional anomalous Hall effect in the topological frustrated magnet candidate, KV3Sb5”

S.-Y. Yang, Y. Wang, B. R. Ortiz, D. Liu, J. Gayles, E. Derunova, R. G.-Hernandez, L. Smejkal, Y. Chen, S. S. P. Parkin, S. D. Wilson, E. S. Toberer, T. McQueen, M. N. Ali. Science Advances 6, eabb6003 (2020)