Yang Yumeng is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University. He received his bachelor’s degree from Sichuan University and his Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he was also awarded the NUS President’s Graduate Fellowship. He has long been engaged in research on magnetic storage and magnetic sensing devices. He has published more than 70 high-quality papers in leading journals such as Nature Electronics, Nature Communications, Physical Review Applied, and IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. He has been granted one U.S. invention patent and one PCT invention patent, and has filed five Chinese invention patents.

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2012/01- 2017/03  National University of Singapore, PhD          

2007/09-2011/07  Sichuan University，Bachelor

2020/01-till now  ShanghaiTech University，Assistant Professor 

2016/03-2019/12  National University of Singapore，Research Fellow     

2011/09-2011/11  Tsinghua University，Research Internship

2025 National Ten Thousand Talents Program – Young Talent

2023、2025 Outstanding Teacher, ShanghaiTech University

2020 Shanghai Overseas High-level Talent Program

2020 Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program

Research ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8071-4470

1. Y. Liu, H. Zheng, Q. Shen, Y. Ma, J. Liu, B. Rong, C. Man, L. Sun, H. Xie, Y. Wu, X. Kou*, L. Liu*, and Y. Yang*, Deterministic Polarity Control of Self-Generated Spin Orbit Torque via Inversion Symmetry Engineering, Applied Physics Review 13, (2026)

2. Q. Shen, J. Chen, B. Rong, Y. Rong, H. Chen, X. Duan, T. Zhao, D. Guan, S. Wang, Y. Li, H. Zheng, X. Liu, X. Qiu, J. Chen, L. Cong, T. Li, R. Zhong, C. Liu, Y. Yang,* L. Liu,* and J. Jia*, Topological Surface State Dominated Nonlinear Transverse Response and Microwave Rectification at Room Temperature, Advanced Functional Materials 35, e06694 (2025)

3. Y. Ma, H. Xie, Y. Si, B. Rong, J. Wang, H. Zheng, Y. Liu, Y. H. Wu*, and Y. Yang*, Third harmonic resistance in ferromagnet/heavy-metal bilayers, Physical Review B 111, 094409 (2025)

4. Y. Rong, C. Jiang, H. Wang, L. Sun, F. Liu, J. Lu, T. Wu, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhao, F. Ma*, Z. Mu, H. Wang, and Y. Yang*, Layer-dependent magnon-magnon coupling in a synthetic antiferromagnet, Physical Review Applied 21, 054050 (2024)

5. B. Rong#, L. Ren#, Y. Liu, B. Sun, J. Chen, K. L. Teo, L. Liu*, and Y. Yang*, Evidences of thermoelectrically driven unidirectional magnetoresistance from a single Weyl ferromagnet Co2MnGa, APL Materials 11, 121109 (2023)