Recently, the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) awarded Associate Professor Fu Yangyang from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics (EEA) received the 2024 Early Achievement Award in recognition of his contributions to the development of similarity theory and scaling laws for low-temperature plasmas and understanding of electrical breakdown and gas discharge plasma sources at miniaturized dimensional scales.. The IEEE NPSS has presented this award annually since 1995, selecting one recipient worldwide to honor a young scientist for outstanding contributions to nuclear and plasma science within the first ten years of their career.

Recipient Profile：

Fu Yangyang, male, graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2010 and obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from Tsinghua University in 2015. He has conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He is currently an associate professor at EEA, deputy director of the High Voltage Institute, and director of the Gas Discharge and Plasma Laboratory. His primary research areas include gas discharge and low-temperature plasma, covering topics such as gas breakdown and insulation, low-pressure radio frequency discharge, high-pressure pulsed discharge, laser-maintained plasma, and micro-discharge devices and applications. He serves as an associate editor for High Voltage, is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society, and a senior member of the Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, where he is also a youth committee member of the Plasma Committee. He has been selected for the National High-Level Talent Introduction Program (Youth Project). As a project leader, he has hosted or completed over ten research projects, including original exploratory projects and general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, as well as organized scientific research at EEA and Tsinghua University and various enterprise-related projects. He has received numerous honors, including the Ministry of Education’s 2018 Excellent Research Achievement Award for Higher Education and the Best Paper Award at the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS). He has served multiple times as session chair for international conferences such as IEEE ICOPS, PPPS, and IWM. He has published over 70 journal articles and more than 100 conference papers and abstracts, holds one authorized U.S. patent as the first inventor, and has given over 30 keynote, invited, and plenary talks at academic conferences and forums in his field.