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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
43
Citations
15161
World Ranking
3796
National Ranking
1367

Overview

Yan Yan is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields, notably in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering, Plant Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

Their body of work encompasses a range of topics including:

  • Multilevel Inverters and Converters
  • Electric Motor Design and Analysis
  • Sensorless Control of Electric Motors
  • Magnetic Bearings and Levitation Dynamics
  • Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • Advanced DC-DC Converters

Yan Yan has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork. Notable frequent collaborators include Tingna Shi, Changliang Xia, Jiyong Zhou, Zhiqiang Wang, and Wei-Ren Dong.

The scientist has published extensively, with their work appearing in prominent venues such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Journal of Physics Conference Series, Energy, Energies, and IET Electric Power Applications.

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Yan Yan include:

  • "Dynamic reconfiguration optimization of intelligent manufacturing system with human-robot collaboration based on digital twin," 2022, Journal of Manufacturing Systems
  • "A Novel SVPWM Scheme for Field-Oriented Vector-Controlled PMSM Drive System Fed by Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • "TRAF6 autophagic degradation by avibirnavirus VP3 inhibits antiviral innate immunity via blocking NFKB/NF-κB activation," 2022, Autophagy
  • "MiR529a controls plant height, tiller number, panicle architecture and grain size by regulating SPL target genes in rice (Oryza sativa L.)," 2020, Plant Science
  • "HFE inhibits type I IFNs signaling by targeting the SQSTM1-mediated MAVS autophagic degradation," 2020, Autophagy

The scientist's multidisciplinary approach combines engineering principles with biological sciences, illustrated by contributions to molecular biology and plant science alongside electrical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Terabit free-space data transmission employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing

    Jian Wang;Jian Wang;Jeng-Yuan Yang;Irfan M. Fazal;Nisar Ahmed

  • Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams

    A. E. Willner;H. Huang;Y. Yan;Y. Ren

  • High-capacity millimetre-wave communications with orbital angular momentum multiplexing

    Yan Yan;Guodong Xie;Martin P. J. Lavery;Hao Huang

  • 100 Tbit/s free-space data link enabled by three-dimensional multiplexing of orbital angular momentum, polarization, and wavelength

    Hao Huang;Guodong Xie;Yan Yan;Nisar Ahmed

  • Atmospheric turbulence effects on the performance of a free space optical link employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing

    Yongxiong Ren;Hao Huang;Guodong Xie;Nisar Ahmed

  • Mode Properties and Propagation Effects of Optical Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Modes in a Ring Fiber

    Yang Yue;Yan Yan;N. Ahmed;Jeng-Yuan Yang

  • Orbital Angular Momentum-based Space Division Multiplexing for High-capacity Underwater Optical Communications.

    Yongxiong Ren;Long Li;Zhe Wang;Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali

  • Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre- and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link

    Yongxiong Ren;Guodong Xie;Hao Huang;Nisar Ahmed

  • Performance metrics and design considerations for a free-space optical orbital-angular-momentum-multiplexed communication link

    Guodong Xie;Long Li;Yongxiong Ren;Hao Huang

  • Recent advances in high-capacity free-space optical and radio-frequency communications using orbital angular momentum multiplexing

    Alan E. Willner;Yongxiong Ren;Guodong Xie;Yan Yan

  • Adaptive optics compensation of multiple orbital angular momentum beams propagating through emulated atmospheric turbulence.

    Yongxiong Ren;Guodong Xie;Hao Huang;Changjing Bao

  • Silicon waveguide with four zero-dispersion wavelengths and its application in on-chip octave-spanning supercontinuum generation.

    Lin Zhang;Qiang Lin;Yang Yue;Yan Yan

  • Line-of-Sight Millimeter-Wave Communications Using Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing Combined With Conventional Spatial Multiplexing

    Yongxiong Ren;Long Li;Guodong Xie;Yan Yan

  • Experimental characterization of a 400 Gbit/s orbital angular momentum multiplexed free-space optical link over 120 m.

    Yongxiong Ren;Zhe Wang;Peicheng Liao;Long Li

  • Nonlinear conversion efficiency in Kerr frequency comb generation.

    Changjing Bao;Lin Zhang;Andrey Matsko;Yan Yan

  • Free-space optical communications using orbital-angular-momentum multiplexing combined with MIMO-based spatial multiplexing.

    Yongxiong Ren;Zhe Wang;Guodong Xie;Long Li

  • Crosstalk mitigation in a free-space orbital angular momentum multiplexed communication link using 4×4 MIMO equalization

    Hao Huang;Yinwen Cao;Guodong Xie;Yongxiong Ren

  • Phase correction for a distorted orbital angular momentum beam using a Zernike polynomials-based stochastic-parallel-gradient-descent algorithm

    Guodong Xie;Yongxiong Ren;Hao Huang;Martin P. J. Lavery

  • Octave-spanning supercontinuum generation of vortices in an As_2S_3 ring photonic crystal fiber

    Yang Yue;Lin Zhang;Yan Yan;Nisar Ahmed

  • Experimental demonstration of a 200-Gbit/s free-space optical link by multiplexing Laguerre-Gaussian beams with different radial indices.

    Guodong Xie;Yongxiong Ren;Yan Yan;Hao Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner University of Southern California
Nisar Ahmed
Nisar Ahmed University of Southern California
Guodong Xie
Guodong Xie University of Southern California
Yongxiong Ren
Yongxiong Ren University of Southern California
Moshe Tur
Moshe Tur Tel Aviv University
Zhe Zhao
Zhe Zhao University of Southern California
Solyman Ashrafi
Solyman Ashrafi NxGen Partners
Yang Yue
Yang Yue Nankai University
Lin Zhang
Lin Zhang Tianjin University
Andreas F. Molisch
Andreas F. Molisch University of Southern California

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