Two new faculty to join McKelvey Engineering Electrical & Systems Engineering
Yingying Fan, Zhiyang Wang to join ESE as assistant professors in 2025-26
Yingying Fan and Zhiyang Wang will join the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering as assistant professors in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 academic years, respectively.
Fan, who recently earned a doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, will join the faculty Aug. 1, 2025. She specializes in analog/RF integrated circuits and focuses on application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design for biosensors, bio-actuators, and biology-electronics hybrid systems for neural interfaces and health care applications. While at Rice, Fan was a 2024 Rising Star in EECS (electrical engineering and computer science) at MIT's EECS and a Rising Star in 2024 Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS). She received the SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award, MTT-S Graduate Fellowship and CASS Pre-Doctoral Grant, as well as a Future Faculty Fellowship and the Nettie S. Autrey Fellowship, both from Rice.
"I am thrilled to join the ESE department at WashU,” Fan said. “The department's strength in transformative research and its collaborative, interdisciplinary environment aligns perfectly with my vision for impactful, cross-cutting work. I'm excited to build my research lab at WashU, advancing analog/RF integrated circuit design for bio-sensing/actuation and neuroengineering. I also look forward to teaching Radio Frequency and Microwave Technology for Wireless Systems Fall 2025 and sharing perspectives on how microwave technologies can support next-generation health care and neural interfaces."
Fan earned a bachelor of engineering in information engineering from Southeast University in Nanjing, China, in 2017 and a master’s in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Michigan in 2019.
Wang will join the department Aug. 1, 2026. After earning a doctorate in electrical and systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2025, she will be a postdoctoral scholar in Halιcιoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego.
Wang specializes in signal processing and machine learning with focuses on graph signal processing, graph neural networks, geometric deep learning and complex network systems. She has been recognized as a 2024 Rising Star in Data Science, a 2023 Rising Star in Signal Processing and a 2023 EECS Rising Star. She received the best student paper award at the 29th European Association for Signal Processing Conference and was awarded the Bruce Ford Memorial Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wang earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2016 and 2019, respectively.
“I am excited to join the exceptional faculty of the electrical & systems engineering department at WashU,” Wang said. “I look forward to working with amazing colleagues and talented students and becoming part of such an excellent community.”
