Yang-Tse Cheng


Yang-Tse Cheng is an American materials scientist currently the University of Kentucky Frank J. Derbyshire Professor of Materials Science at University of Kentucky and an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors Materials Research Society and American Physical Society.

Education

He earned his B.S in physics-mathematics, his M.S. and Ph.D in applied physics at California Institute of Technology. He worked as an engineer for General Motors before teaching at Purdue University in 2007 until starting at University of Kentucky that year.

Research

His interests are nanostructured materials, energy conversion and storage, and sustainable manufacturing and engineering. His highest cited paper is "Scaling, dimensional analysis, and indentation measurements" at 995 times, according to Google Scholar.

Publications