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Dr. Hong Yang is Professor of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering at Southeast University. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry from
Peking University in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Colorado
at Boulder in 2007 with Prof. David M Walba. After one year industry work as an
associate director of medicinal chemistry in a Chinese pharmaceutical company,
he went back to academia and joined Dr. Patrick Keller's group at Institut
Curie in 2008. Since completing his postdoctoral research, he became a faculty
at Southeast University in the spring of 2010. Currently, his research
interests are liquid crystal materials and functional polymeric materials.