Rate My Professor Yee Sin Ang

Dr. Yee Sin Ang is an Assistant Professor and Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Early Career Chair Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), affiliated with the Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) Cluster. He earned a Bachelor of Medical and Radiation Physics (Honours) in 2010 and a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics in 2014 from the University of Wollongong in Australia. His research centers on the physics and design of nanoscale devices, with particular emphasis on computational modelling of 2D materials and heterostructures, metal contacts to 2D semiconductors, charge injection and transport in nanomaterials, beyond-CMOS electronics including valleytronics and spintronics, light-matter interactions, and computational design of GHz/THz photonics. He has authored over 60 research articles in journals such as Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, InfoMat, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, and MRS Bulletin. Notable publications include “Generalized high-energy thermionic electron injection at graphene interface” (Physical Review Applied, 2019), “Universal scaling laws in Schottky heterostructures based on two-dimensional materials” (Physical Review Letters, 2018), and “Valleytronics in merging Dirac cones: all-electric filter, valve and universal reversible logic gate” (Physical Review B, 2017). Dr. Ang’s contributions have been recognized with awards including the Lindau Alumni of the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (2019), Faculty Best Thesis Prize from the University of Wollongong (2015), SUTD FIRST Industry Workshop First Prize (2017), and multiple poster and review awards. He previously held research fellow positions at SUTD and maintains active collaborations in areas such as toplectrical circuits.

His work advances energy-efficient computing and renewable energy technologies through theoretical and computational approaches to emerging nanomaterials. Dr. Ang is an alumnus of the Global Young Scientist Summit (2019) and has received the Publon Peer Review Award for top 1% reviewers (2018) along with several university-level honors during his graduate studies.