Yet-Ming Chiang
Yet-Ming Chiang (April 25, 1958)[1] is an American materials scientist and engineer currently the Kyocera Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He has been influential in the development of new materials for energy storage, transfer, and power of a variety of different devices and vehicles.
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Yet-Ming Chiang at the NTSB's Lithium Ion Batteries in Transportation forum
Background and Career
Chiang was born in Taiwan in 1958, and emigrated to the United States in 1964.[1] His SB and Sc.D. degrees, 1980 and 1985 respectively, are both from MIT.
He is the author of over 200 peer-reviewed publications and holds over 30 patents.
Chiang was the postdoctoral advisor for L'Oreal Awardee Dorthe Ravnsbæk.
Entrepreneurship
Chiang has founded or provides expert consultation to a number of companies in the materials and energy storage spaces, including:
- A123 Systems - automotive Lithium-ion battery maker, based out of Hangzhou, China and Livonia, Michigan.[3]
- Desktop Metal - 3D printing of metal components[4]
- 24M - Cambridge, Massachusetts start-up investigating battery technology for planes and other aircraft[5]
- American Superconductor - superconducting materials
Awards
- 2009 - Elected to U.S. National Academy of Engineering[6] "for contributions of new energy storage materials and their commercialization"
- 2006 - R&D 100 Award[1]
- 2001 - Ross Coffin Purdy Award of the Ceramics Society[7]
- Fellow of the American Ceramic Society[1]
References
- "Yet-Ming Chiang | Lemelson-MIT Program". lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
- "Yet-Ming Chiang". mit.edu. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
- "About A123 - Our Story". A123 Systems. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
- Metal, Desktop. "Yet-Ming Chiang, Sc.D." Desktop Metal. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
- "A powerful new battery could give us electric planes that don't pollute". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
- "Dr. Yet-Ming Chiang". NAE Website. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
- Society, Ceramic (2019). "Ross Coffin Purdy Award Recipients" (PDF).
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