Ruixin
Yang
(Updated:
December
14, 2006)
I.
Contact Information:
Center for
Earth
Observing & Space Research
Earth Systems and GeoInformation Sciences
College of Science
Room 226, Research One
Building, MS 6C3
George Mason University
4400
University Drive
Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444
Phone:
(703)993-3615
Fax:
(703)993-9230
Email:
ryang@gmu.edu
Web
site: http://yang.gmu.edu
II.
Education:
·
PhD,
Aerospace Engineering: (9/86-8/90), University of Southern
California
(USC), Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
·
MS,
Information Systems: (1/96--5/98),
GMU, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.
·
MS, Aerospace
Engineering: (1/85-5/86),
USC, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
·
BS, Fluid
Mechanics: (3/78-7/82), Tsinghua University,
Beijing, China
III.
Experience:
- Assistant
Director,
Center for Earth Observing and Space Research (CEOSR), George Mason
University,
Fairfax, Virginia, 8/2006-present.
- Associate
Professor, College of Science/School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 8/2003-present.
- Assistant
Professor,
School of Computational Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 3/2000-8/2003.
- Senior
Research Scientist/Research Associate Professor,
Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, George Mason University,
3/97-3/2000.
- Research
Scientist/Research Assistant Professor,
Center for Earth Observing and Space Research, George Mason University,
12/93-3/97.
- Research
Associate, Institute
of
Computational Sciences and Informatics, George Mason University,
9/91-12/93.
- Research
Associate, Department
of
Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern
California,
9/90-8/91.
- Research
Assistant, Department
of
Aerospace Engineering, University of Southern
California,
6/85-8/90.
- Instructor (Faculty
member), Department
of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University
(Duties included both teaching and research), 8/82-1/85.
IV. Selected
Activities:
- Member
of Steering Committee, The 2nd EastFire Conference, May 2007
at George Mason University (2006-present)
- Technical
Program Chair, The EastFire Conference, May 2005 at George Mason University (2004-2005)
- ·Member of Organization
Committee, the First
International Workshop
on Future
Intelligent Earth
Observing Satellites (FIEOS) (2002).
- Session
Chair, the 2nd
International Conference on Earth Observation and Environmental
Information
(EOEI), Cairo, Egypt,
November 2000.
V.
Professional Membership:
- American
Geophysical Union (AGU) (2000-present)
- American
Meteorological Society (AMS) (2003-present)
- The
Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Computer Society (2000-2004,
2006-present)
- American
Meteorological Society (2003-present)
- American
Astronomical Society (AAS) (1993)
- American
Physical Society (APS), Fluid Division (1989)