Associate Professors
TIAN Yang
Associate Professor

Ph.D.

Tel: 010-62770043

Email: [email protected]

Educational Background

Sept. 2007 – Jan. 2013 Tsinghua University  Nuclear Science and Technology Doctor

Aug. 2003 – Jul. 2007 Tsinghua University  Engineering Physics  Bachelor


Work Experience

Jan. 2023 – now  Tsinghua University  Associate Research Fellow

Jan. 2017 – Dec. 2022  Tsinghua University  Assistant Research Fellow

Aug. 2013 – Mar. 2016 The University of Tokyo  Postdoc


Teaching work

Advanced Radiation Detection and Measurement, Core Graduate Course of Nuclear Science

GRID project, Supervisor (detector design)

Two master student and four doctor student (as co-advisor‌)


Research Field

Radiation detection, detector technology in experimental physics research;

Novel high purity germanium detector development;

Neutron/gamma detection and imaging.


Research Situation

Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2023 The study of CubeSat based gamma-ray burst detector using perovskite scintillation materials, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Project Leader

Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2021 The study of wide energy range gamma-ray imaging using telescopic 3-D position sensitive scintillation detector, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Project Leader


Academic Achievements

[1] Siyuan Yu, Li He, Yulan Li, Yang Tian*, et al., Pulse shape discrimination using a convolutional neural network in an inverted coaxial point contact HPGe detector, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 1072 170219, 2025.

[2] Mingxin Yang, Yulan Li, Yang Tian*, et al., Pulse shape discrimination and spectral performance of an inverted coaxial point contact HPGe detector with sub-pF capacitance, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 1055 168491, 2023.

[3] Mingxin Yang, Yulan Li, Zhi Zeng, Yang Tian*, et al., A prototype segmented planar high purity germanium detector using wraparound lithium diffusion electrode and amorphous germanium blocking contact, Radiation Detection Technology and Methods, s41605-022-00349-x, 2022.

[4] Li Xu, Yang Tian*, Yulan Li, Development of a gamma-ray imaging detector based on ceramic scintillators with SiPM readout, Journal of Instrumentation 16, P10005, 2021.

[5] Yidong Fu, Yang Tian*, Yulan Li, Jian Yang, Jin Li, Directional fast neutron detection using a time projection chamber and plastic scintillation detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 954 161445, 2020.


Award honors

Second Prize of Chinese Nuclear Society Best Paper Award, 2021

First Prize of Tsinghua University Teaching Achievement Award, 2021


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