Yuekui Yang

Yuekui Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in atmospheric sciences from the Science and Engineering University of the Army, Nanjing, China, in 1987 and 1990, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in atmospheric sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, in 2007. He was a Research Scientist with the Aviation Meteorological Research Institute, Beijing, China, from 1990 to 1997, a Software Engineer with the Beijing METSTAR Radar Company, Ltd., from 1997 to 1999, and a Project Manager with Datatrust Information Technologies, Beijing, from 1999 to 2001. He has been with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, since 2007, first as a faculty member of the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and now as an Assistant Research Scientist with the Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD. His research experience includes radiative transfer modeling, satellite cloud detection, and study on polar clouds and blowing snow with both passive and active remote sensing instruments.