Graduate research assistant


Education & Employment


Columbia University

Graduate Research Assistant

New York, NY, 2017 - 2020

Columbia University

PhD in Materials Science

New York, NY, 2015 - 2020

Columbia University

Masters in Materials Science

New York, NY, 2015 - 2016

Projects


diffpy

software for modeling nanostructures principally from atomic pair distribution function (PDF) data.
  • developer: 2018 - present
  • developer: 2017 - present
  • Mentor and developer: 2005 - present
  • lead developer: 2005 - present

Publications

  1. Emil T. S. Kjær, Olivia Aalling-Frederiksen, Long Yang, Nancy K. Thomas, Mikkel Juelsholt, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen. "In situ studies of the formation of tungsten and niobium oxide nanoparticles: Towards automated analysis of reaction pathways from PDF analysis using the Pearson correlation coefficient". Chemistry Methods . Tbd 2022 download doi
  2. Zachary Thatcher, Chia-Hao Liu, Long Yang, Brennan C. McBride, Gia Thinh Tran, Allison Wustrow, Martin A. Karlsen, James R. Neilson, Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk, and Simon J. L. Billinge. "{nmfMapping}: a cloud-based web application for non-negative matrix factorization of powder diffraction and pair distribution function datasets". Acta Crystallographica Section A . 73 p. 242-248 May 2022 download doi
  3. Simon J. L. Billinge, Sandra H. Skjaervoe, Maxwell W. Terban, Songsheng Tao, Long Yang, Yevgeny Rakita, and Benjamin A. Frandsen. "Local structure determination using total scattering data". Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry III. Oct 2021 download doi
  4. Long Yang, Elizabeth A. Culbertson, Nancy K. Thomas, Hung T. Vuong, Emil T. S. Kj{\ae}r, Kirsten M. {\O}. Jensen, Matthew G. Tucker, and Simon J. L. Billinge. "A cloud platform for atomic pair distribution function analysis: {PDF}itc". Acta Crystallogr. A . 77 p. 2-6 Jan 2021 download doi
  5. Long Yang, Robert J. Koch, Hong Zheng, John F. Mitchell, Weiguo Yin, Matthew G. Tucker, Simon J. L. Billinge, and Emil S. Bozin. "Two-orbital degeneracy lifted local precursor to a metal-insulator transition in {MgTi$_2$O$_4$}". Phys. Rev. B . 102 p. 235128 Dec 2020 download doi
  6. Muhammad Boota, Chi Chen, Long Yang, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Naresh C. Osti, William Porzio, Luisa Barba, and Jianjun Jiang. "Probing molecular interactions at MXene—organic heterointerfaces". Chem. Mater. . 32 p. 7884–7894 Aug 2020 download doi
  7. Yang, Long, Juh\'{a}s, Pavol, Terban, Maxwell W., Tucker, Matthew G., and Billinge, Simon J. L.. "Structure-mining: screening structure models by automated fitting to the atomic pair distribution function over large numbers of models". Acta Crystallogr. A . 76 p. 395-409 May 2020 download doi
  8. Xu Xiao, Hao Wang, Weizhai Bao, Patrick Urbankowski, Long Yang, Yao Yang, Kathleen Maleski, Linfan Cui, Simon J. L. Billinge, Guoxiu Wang, and Yury Gogotsi. "Two-dimensional arrays of transition metal nitride nanocrystals". Adv. Mater. . 31 p. 02393 June 2019 download doi
  9. Aydt, Alexander P., Qie, Boyu, Pinkard, Andrew, Yang, Long, Cheng, Qian, Billinge, Simon J. L., Yang, Yuan, and Roy, Xavier. "Microporous Battery Electrodes from Molecular Cluster Precursors". ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces . 11 p. 11292-11297 Mar 2019 download doi
  10. Xiao, Xu, Urbankowski, Patrick, Hantanasirisakul, Kanit, Yang, Yao, Sasaki, Stephen, Yang, Long, Chen, Chi, Wang, Hao, Miao, Ling, Tolbert, Sarah H., Billinge, Simon J. L., Abruna, Hector D., May, Steven J., and Gogotsi, Yury. "Scalable synthesis of ultrathin {Mn$_3$N$_2$} exhibiting room-temperature antiferromagnetism". Adv. Funct. Mater. . p. 1809001 March 2019 download doi
  11. Lombardi, Julien, Yang, Long, Pearsall, Frederick A., Farahmand, Nasim, Gai, Zheng, Billinge, Simon J. L., and O'Brien, Stephen. "Stoichiometric control over ferroic behavior in {Ba(Ti$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$)O$_3$} nanocrystals". Chem. Mater. . 31 p. 1318-1335 Jan 2019 download doi
  12. Urbankowski, Patrick, Anasori, Babak, Hantanasirisakul, Kanit, Yang, Long, Zhang, Lihua, Haines, Bernard, May, Steven J., Billinge, Simon J. L., and Gogotsi, Yury. "{2D} molybdenum and vanadium nitrides synthesized by ammoniation of {2D} transition metal carbides ({MX}enes)". Nanoscale . 9 p. 17722-17730 Nov 2017 download doi