Honors and Awards
- McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2023-2028
- Best Undergraduate Instructor, UMN CEGE Department, 2022-2023
- National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Participant, 2023
- American Chemical Society PRF Doctoral New Investigator Award, 2022
- Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science, 2018
- MIT Trond Kaalstad Fellowship (leadership award), 2017
- Martin Sustainable Fellowship, 2016
- MIT Presidential Fellowship, 2013
Selected Publications
Wei, G., and Yang, J. Q. "Microfluidic investigation of the impacts of flow fluctuations on the development of Pseudomonas putida biofilms," npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 9, 7, (2023).
Huang, S., and Yang, J. Q. "Impacts of channel-spanning log jams on hyporheic flow." Water Resources Research, 59, e2023WR035217, (2023).
W. Wei, and J. Yang, “Impacts of hydrodynamic conditions and microscale surface roughness on the critical shear stress to develop and thickness of early-stage Pseudomonas putida biofilms,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, pp. 1–12, (2023).
S. Huang and J.Q. Yang, "Impacts of emergent vegetation on hyporheic exchange." Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2022GL099095, (2022).
Y. Li, J.E. Sanfilippo, D. Kearns, and J.Q. Yang, "Corner flows induced by surfactant-producing bacteria Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas fluorescens." Microbiology Spectrum, pp.e03233-22, (2022).
J. Q. Yang, J. Sanfilippo, N. Abbasi, Z. Gitai, B. Bassler, and H. Stone, “Evidence for biosurfactant induced flow in corners and bacterial spreading in unsaturated porous media.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2111060118. (2021)
J. Q. Yang, X. Zhang, I. C. Bourg, and H. A. Stone, “4D imaging reveals mechanisms of clay carbon protection and release." Nature Communications, 12, 622. (2021)
J. Yang and H. Nepf, “Impact of vegetation on bed load transport rate and bedform characteristics,” Water Resources Research 55, 6109-6124 (2019).
J. Yang and H. Nepf, “A turbulence–based bed–load transport model for bare and vegetated channels,” Geophysical Research Letters 45, 10,428–10, 436 (2018).
*AGU EOS Research Spotlight: New Study Shifts Paradigm of Coastal Sediment Modeling.
J. Yang, H. Chung, and H. Nepf, “The onset of sediment transport in vegetated channels predicted by turbulent kinetic energy,” Geophysical Research Letters 43, 11,261–11, 268 (2016).
J. Yang, F. Kerger, and H. Nepf, “Estimation of the bed shear stress in vegetated and bare channels,” Water Resources Research 51, 3647–3663 (2015).
*MIT News and Phys.org highlights: Predicting sediment flow in coastal vegetation
