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Yuan Yang, PhD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois, United States

He was an Assistant Professor in Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine from 2017-2020. He moved to the University of Oklahoma in 2020 and opened his new Neural Control and Rehabilitation Laboratory as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Adjunct), and Rehabilitation Sciences (Adjunct). He is currently leading a multi-site neural engineering laboratory at Tulsa and Oklahoma City with the main research topic on stroke rehabilitation and new research directions on pain and opioid control, aging and sex differences in the brain. His research includes engineering-based human subject studies and registered clinical trials. His research is currently supported by the NIH R01 and R21, NSF CAREER award, American Heart Association CAREER award, and multiple regional/local research grants. He has been serving as a grant reviewer for a NIH study section, NSF Smart Health Panel, and many others.

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