Prof. Haiyan Wang is the Basil R. Turner Professor of Engineering in the School of Materials Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University since 2016. She was on the faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University from 2006 to 2016. Prior to that, she was on the staff in the group of Superconductor Science and Technology at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2003 to 2006, first as a postdoc and then as a technical staff member. She also served as a program director for the Electronic and Photonic Materials Program in the Division of Materials Science at NSF from 2013-2015.

Wang specializes in high temperature superconductors coated conductors, heteroepitaxy of complex nanocomposites with multifunctionality, nanostructured functional ceramics for solid oxide fuel cells, plasmonics and photonics, ferroelectric and multiferroics, and radiation tolerance materials, and bulk structural metals, and ductile ceramics. She pioneered the designs of vertically aligned nanocomposites thin films for various microelectronics and photonic applications, and the design and processing of ductile high temperature ceramics via non-equilibrium processing techniques. She holds 13 issued and 5 pending U.S. patents that have been licensed to multiple companies. She has published over 755+ journal articles (with 35000 citations and an H-index of 89) and presented over 350 invited and contributed talks at various international conferences. She serves as an associate editor for Science Advances (since 2018). Her major awards include TAMEST O'Donnell Award in Engineering 2015, ASM Silver Medal for Outstanding Materials Scientist in Mid Career 2011, and PECASE 2008. Wang is a fellow of NAI, MRS, APS, AAAS, ACerS, and ASM International.