Dr. Qimin Yan is an Associate Professor of Physics at Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the University of California, Berkeley. From 2016 to 2022, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Temple University. In 2022, he joined the Department of Physics at Northeastern University as an Associate Professor. His current research interests include physical principle informed machine learning, data-driven design of solid-state quantum materials, quantum defects for quantum information technologies, and functional semiconductors for energy conversion. He received the DOE Early Career Award in 2019 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2022.