Prof Wuqiang Yang - personal details

Professor Wuqiang Yang (FIET, FInstMC, FIEEE, CEng) received all his degrees, BEng (Distinction) 1982, MSc 1985 and PhD (Distinction) 1988, from Tsinghua University in Beijing. After 3 years as a Lecturer at Tsinghua University, he joined UMIST in 1991. His research is focused on electrical capacitance tomography (ECT). He has published 300 papers, and holds 10 patents, including 2 WO patents, which have been licensed to industry. He is an editorial board member of 6 journals/book publisher, including Meas. Sci. Technol. and Sensor Review, and reviews papers for 40 journals/book publishers, including 6 IEEE journals. He has been invited by many universities and research institutions worldwide and international conferences to give lectures/seminars/keynotes, including 2011 IASTED Int. Conf. on Signal and Image Processing and Applications, 2011 Chinese Thermophysics Engineering Society Annual Conf. and 2012 5th pan-European Science Conf. on Process Analytical Technology. He is a visiting professor at 6 universities/research organisation, including Tsinghua University. He is recognised by International Center for Scientific Research (France), as one of top 30 technology researchers in the world. Since 2010, he is an IEEE IM Society Distinguished Lecturer and he has given 11 Distinguished Lectures so far. 

He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of IET, Fellow of InstMC and Fellow of IEEE. His biography has been included in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Who's Who in America since 2002. In 2006 he received Global Research Award from the Royal Academy of Engineering and took sabbatical leave at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in USA as a visiting professor. He has received many awards, including 1997 IEE/NPL Wheatstone Measurement Prize, 1997 Honeywell Prize from InstMC, 2000 IEE Ayrton Premium, 2008 Outstanding Organization award from IEEE IM Society, 2009 Valued Reviewer from Sensors and Actuators journal, 2009 IET Innovation Award Finalist, and 2010 Outstanding Reviewer from Sensor Review journal. He is an honorary chairman of IEEE Int. Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Currently, he is organising 2012 IEEE Int. Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques in Manchester as the local chairman.  

• Chartered Engineer
• IEEE
• InstMC
• The IET

BEng, MSc, PhD (Tsinghua University), FIET, FInstMC, FIEEE, CEng