Zhou Yang graduated from the Polymer Materials Department of Qingdao University of Science and Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1995 and received a master's degree in polymer materials in 1998; from 1998 to 2000, he was engaged in R&D and achievement transformation at the Haier Group Technology Center; from 2000 to In 2003, he studied at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received a doctorate in science. From 2003 to 2007, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Nonlinear Optics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH); from July 2008, he was appointed as a professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing; since 2011, he has served as chief professor of the Polymer Display and Energy Materials Research Laboratory of University of Science and Technology, Beijing. His current research interests mainly focus on (1) design and synthesis of organic dyes for optoelectronics and biomedicine and (2) development of nonlinear optical organic crystals for terahertz generation and detection, etc.