Yiquan Wu named Alfred University’s fourth Inamori Professor

ALFRED, NY – Yiquan Wu, professor of ceramic engineering in the Inamori School of Engineering at Alfred University, has been named an Inamori Professor.

In 2005, the Kyocera Corporation established a $10 million endowment to honor the corporation’s founder, Dr. Kazuo Inamori.  The funding supports endowed chair positions to prolific research faculty in the ceramic engineering area. Wu becomes the fourth Inamori Professor at Alfred University, joining Scott Misture, Richard Tidrow, and S.K. Sundaram in this distinguished role.

Wu joined Alfred University as a professor of ceramic engineering in 2011 and quickly built an internationally recognized research portfolio. Since 2014, he has secured $6 million in externally funded sponsored research from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Office of Naval Research, U.S. Air Force, and U.S. Department of Defense.

In 2020, Wu was named a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society (ACerS). He is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including two national awards of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award, as well as the ACerS Global Star Award. In 2019, Wu received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York (SUNY) System. He was named a SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in 2018.

Wu received his Ph.D. in Materials from Imperial College in London. Before joining Alfred University in 2011, he held a research faculty position at the University of Rochester.