Featured grants
- Haque, Ariful, Droopad, Ravindranath, Holtz, Mark W, Piner, Edwin L, Geerts, Wilhelmus J, Chen, Yihong, Hudnall, Todd W, Wistey, Mark A, Miyahara, Yoichi, Smith, Casey Eben, Mahato, Dip Narayan, Rastogi, Shiva Kumar, Kim, Namwon. Acquisition of a state-of-the-art Photoluminescence Spectrometer for Materials Characterization in Research and Education, Department of Defense, Federal, $434519. (Submitted: September 2023, Funded: 2024 - 2025). Grant.
- Miyahara, Yoichi (Principal), Satchell, Nathan David (Co-Principal), Holtz, Mark W (Co-Principal), Kim, Namwon (Co-Principal), Martin, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Chen, Yihong (Supporting), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Supporting), Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Supporting), Piner, Edwin L (Supporting), Haque, Ariful (Supporting), Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Mahato, Dip Narayan (Supporting), Smith, Casey Eben (Supporting). MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of state-of-the-art lithography system for micro/nanometer scale device fabrication in research and education, National Science Foundation, Federal, $569780. (Submitted: November 14, 2023, Funded: September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2027). Grant.
- Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Principal), Percent Contribution: %40, Tate, Jitendra S (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25, Chen, Yihong (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25, Droopad, Ravindranath (Other), Percent Contribution: %5, Rhodes, Christopher Peter (Other), Percent Contribution: %5. MRI: Development of triaxial Vibrating Sample Magnetometry for Research and Education, NSF, Federal, $119461. (Submitted: January 19, 2022, Funded: September 2022 - August 2025). Grant.
- Shi, Xijun (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Chen, Yihong (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. Multidisciplinary Internal Research Grant Program: Nondestructive Assessment of Additive Dispersion Quality in Conductive Concrete using Electromagnetic Waves, Multi-disciplinary Internal Research Grant (MIRG), Texas State University, $29834. (Funded: 2021 - 2022). Grant.
- Holtz, Mark W (Principal), Percent Contribution: %15, Chen, Yihong (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %11, Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %15, Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %8, Li, Jian (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %5, Myers, Thomas H (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %8, Piner, Edwin L (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %8, Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %15, Zakhidov, Alexander (Supporting), Percent Contribution: %15. System of Integrated Characterization of Electronic Devices and Materials, U.S. AFOSR, Federal, $332086. (Funded: August 15, 2017 - August 14, 2018). Grant.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- Henderson, L., Zamora, S., Ahmed, T. N., Belduque Correa, M. C., Tate, J. S., Chen, Y., & Geerts, W. J. (2021). Altering Magnetic Properties of Iron Filament PLA Using Magnetic Field Assisted Additive Manufacturing (MFAAM). Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 538. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168320
- Ahmed, Z., & Chen, Y. (2024). Fabrication of carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET) using Aerosol Jet system for flexible electronic devices.
- Howlader, C., Chen, Y., & Geerts, W. J. (2024). Antisolvent free depostion of lead-tin-based MAPbSn1-x(I0.75Br0.25)3 perovskite with a wide range of bandgap variation. MRS Communications.
- Khakurel, N. J., Amyx, D., Miyahara, Y., Chen, Y., & Geerts, W. J. (2024). Slot-die Coating of Famamidinium-Cesium mixed Halide Perovskites in Ambient conditions with FAAc additive. MRS Communications, 14, 215–221.
- Halim, M. A., Karmakar, S., Hamid, M. A., Chandan, C. S. S., Rahaman, I., Urena, M. E., … Beall, G. W. (2023). Improved Electrochemical Performance in Exfoliated Tetracyanonickelate-based Metal-Organic Framework. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15(46), 53568–53583.
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State Alumni Association. June 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Patent Application Initial Award, NASA. January 2011
- Award / Honor Recipient: Tech Brief Initial Award, NASA. May 2010

Featured service activities
- Member
IEEE EDS Technical Committee on Electron Materials
- Other
Frontiers in Electronics
- Other
AAAFM-Material Communications Journal
- Other
International Journal of Antennas and Propagation
Serve on all assignments based on service matrix
Serve on searching committee of EE assistant professor