Bin Yang is currently a professor in the College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, China. He received his bachelor and master’s degrees from Hunan University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He conducted postdoctoral research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on functional materials for optoelectronic applications including solar cells, photodetectors, and light-emitting diodes.