He is currently the deputy director of the Department of Metals and Inorganic Nonmetals (and the director of undergraduate teaching), teaching the undergraduate course "Fundamentals of Engineering Materials". He has long been engaged in the research of advanced metal materials laser additive manufacturing /3D printing, rapid solidification behavior, solidification structure control, and has won the "Excellent doctoral thesis of China Materials Research Society". Chaired the "National Natural Science Foundation", "Beijing Natural Science Foundation", "China Postdoctoral Foundation Special Funding" and "China Postdoctoral Foundation first-class funding"; As a backbone member to participate in the "national key research and development program", "National defense basic scientific research" and other important national projects. As the first/corresponding author, he has published a number of representative scientific research results in top international academic journals, including: Nature Communications, Acta Materialia, Additive Manufacturing, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, and Scripta Materialia, etc. He has been A reviewer for several top academic journals, including Materials & Design, Materials Science and Engineering A, and Journal of Alloys and Compounds.

1. Metal Additive Manufacturing /3D Printing
2. Advanced Metal structural materials
3. Rapid solidification behavior and tissue control
4. Metal hardening

2019.09-present School of Materials, Beijing Institute of Technology

[1] Zhu Y, Zhou S, Xiong Z, Liang YJ*, Xue Y, Wang L. Enabling stronger eutectic high-entropy alloys with larger ductility by 3D printed directional lamellae. Additive Manufacturing, 2021, 39: 101901.
[2] Zhou S, Liang YJ*, Zhu Y, et al. Ultrashort-time liquid phase sintering of high-performance fine-grain tungsten heavy alloys by laser additive manufacturing. Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2021, 90: 30-36.
[3] Liang YJ, Wang L, Wen Y, et al. High-content ductile coherent nanoprecipitates achieve ultrastrong high-entropy alloys. Nature Communications, 2018, 9: 4063.
[4] Liang YJ, Cheng X, Wang HM. A new microsegregation model for rapid solidification multicomponent alloys and its application to single-crystal nickel-base superalloys of laser rapid directional solidification. Acta Materialia, 2016, 118: 17-27.
[5] Liang YJ, Li J, Li A, et al. Solidification path of single-crystal nickel-base superalloys with minor carbon additions under laser rapid directional solidification conditions. Scripta Materialia, 2017, 127: 58-62.