2022/12- present   Tsinghua University, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Professor

2019/12-2022/11   Tsinghua University, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor

2015/08-2019/11   Stanford University, Department of Applied Physics, Postdoctoral Scholar, Mentor: Prof. Yuri Suzuki

Young Editor, Chin. Phys. Lett. and Chin. Phys. B (2024–present)

Young Editor, Materials China (2024–present)

Member of Council, the Committee of Analysis and Characterization, CMRS (2023–present)

Member of Council, Youth Council of the Materials Research Society of China (2022–present)

Reviewer for Adv. Mater., Phys. Rev. Lett., Nature Comm., Nature Nanotech., etc.

Exploring material solution for next-generation information technology, including: (1) Multiferroic materials and heterojunctions, magnetoelectric coupling and prototype devices, (2) Magnon transport and regulation in magnetic insulators and (3) Spintronics in complex oxides.

First Prize of Science and Technology Award, Chinese Materials Research Society (1/6, 2024)

First Prize of Science and Technology Award, China Building Materials Association & Chinese Ceramic Society (4/6, 2022)

Post-Doctoral Travel Grant Award, March APS Meeting (2019)

Berkeley Fellowship for graduate study, UC Berkeley (2010-2012)

Outstanding graduate of Tsinghua University (2010)

1. H. Chen, D. Jiang, Y. Zhang, X. Qiu, Y. Liang, Q. Zhang, F. Zhu, T. Ohkochi, M. Chen, Y. Wang, J. Liu, Q. He, J. Ma, P. Yu, Y-H Lin, TX Nan*, Di Yi*, Pure spin current polarizer enabled by antiferromagnetic insulator, Nature Communications 16, 6257 (2025)

2. H. Chen, X. Qiu, Z. Jin, D. Jiang, T. Lin, Y. Zhang, Y. Liang, X. Jiang, Y. Yang, C. Li, F. Zhu, J. Ma, Q. Zhang, J-C Lin, Q. He, Y-H Lin, TX Nan*, Di Yi*, Controlling Antiferromagnetic Magnon Transport and Anisotropy by Interfacial Coupling, Advanced Functional Materials 35, e07757 (2025)

3. Di Yi*, CW Nan*, When relaxor films go ultrathin, Nature Nanotechnology 20, 464 (2025)

4. Y. Chai, Y. Liang, C. Xiao, Y. Wang, B. Li, D. Jiang, P. Pal, Y.n Tang, H. Chen, Y. Zhang, W. Skowroński6, Q. Zhang, L. Gu, J. Ma, P. Yu, J. Tang, Y-H Lin*, Di Yi*, D. C. Ralph, C-B Eom, H. Wu, TX Nan*, Voltage control of multiferroic magnon torque for reconfigurable logic-in-memory, Nature Communications 15, 5975 (2024)

5. A. Tang, C. Li, T. Xu, Y. Dong, J. Ma, P Yu, CW Nan, Y-H Lin, TX Nan*, W. Jiang*, Di Yi*, Electric-Field Control of Perpendicularly Magnetized Ferrimagnetic Order and Giant Magnetoresistance in Multiferroic Heterostructures, Nano Letters 24, 632 (2024)

6. YH Liang, DS Jiang, YH Chai, Y Wang, HT Chen, J Ma, P Yu, Di Yi*, TX Nan*, Observation of Magnon Spin Transport in BiFeO3 Thin Films, Advanced Functional Materials 34, 2308944 (2024)

7. HT Chen, DS Jiang, QH Zhang, YH Liang, JC Liu, AH Tang, YH Chai, P Yu, TX Nan, Di Yi*, Tuning Stoichiometry for Enhanced Spin-Charge Interconversion in Transition Metal Oxides, Advanced Electronic Materials 10, 202300666 (2024)

8. Di Yi*, AH Tang, MM Kane, LB Xu, JC Liu, ZY Cheng, C Klewe, AT N'Diaye, P Shafer, P Yu, R Yu, HX Xu, YH Lin, CW Nan, Y Suzuki, Enhanced Ferromagnetism in Atomically Thin Oxides Achieved by Interfacial Reconstruction, Advanced Functional Materials 34, 202313294 (2024)

9. D. Jiang, H. Chen, G. Ji, Y. Chai, C. Zhang, Y. Liang, J. Liu, W. Skowroński, P. Yu, Di Yi*, TX Nan*, Substrate-induced spin-torque-like signal in spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance measurement, Physical Review Applied 21, 024021 (2024)

10. X. Qiu, Z. Wang, H. Chen, Y. Liang, X. Jiang, Y. Zhang, J. Ma, F. Zhu, TX Nan, Z. Chen, Di Yi *, Enhanced Exchange Bias in All-oxide Heterostructures with Cation-ordered Ferrimagnetic Double-perovskite, npj Spintronics, 2(1): 44 (2024)

11. Y. Yang#, L. Zhao#, Di Yi#, T. Xu, Y. Chai, C. Zhang&, D. Jiang&, Y. Ji&, D. Hou, W. Jiang*, J. Tang, P. Yu, H. Wu, TX Nan*, Acoustic-driven magnetic skyrmion motion, Nature Communications 15 1018 (2024)

12. Y. Liang#, Di Yi#, TX Nan#, L. Zhao, S. Liu, Y. Zhang, H. Chen, T. Xu, J-M Hu, J. Shi, W. Jiang*, R. Yu*, Y-H Lin*, “Field-free spin-orbit switching of perpendicular magnetization enabled by dislocation-induced in-plane symmetry breaking”, Nature Communications 14, 5458 (2023)

13. A. Tang, T. Xu, S. Liu, Y. Liang, H. Chen, D. Yan, Y. Shi, P. Yu, R. Yu, Y. Lin, T. Nan, W. Jiang*, Di Yi*, “Implementing Complex Oxides for Efficient Room-Temperature Spin-Orbit Torque Switching”, Advanced Electronic Materials, 8, 11, 202201245 (2022)

14. H. Chen, Di Yi*, Spin-charge conversion in transition metal oxides, APL Materials 9, 060908 (2021)

15. Di Yi*, H. Amari, P. P. Balakrishnan, C. Klewe, A. T. N'Diaye, P. Shafer, N. Browning, Y. Suzuki, Interface-Driven Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy by Symmetry Control in Oxide Superlattices, Physical Review Applied 15, 024001 (2021)

16. Di Yi*, Y. Wang, O. M. J. van’t Erve, L. Xu, H. Yuan, M. Veit, P. Balakrishnan, Y. Choi, A. T. N’Diaye, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, H. Xu*, P. Yu*, B. T. Jonker and Y. Suzuki. “Emergent electrical control of phase transformation in oxide superlattices”, Nature Communications, 11(1): 902 (2020)