Ping YangPing Yang is University Distinguished Professor and David Bullock Harris Chair in geosciences at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on light scattering, radiative transfer, and remote sensing. Yang is a Fellow of the American Physical Society(APS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), OPTICA (formally, the Optical Society of America), The Electromagnetics Academy, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Yang has received a number of awards/honors, including the Humboldt Research Award, the quadrennial Gold Medal by the International Radiation Commission (IRC), the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, the Ascent Award by the AGU Atmospheric Science Section, the David and Lucille Atlas Remote Sensing Prize from AMS, and the van de Hulst Light-Scattering Award from Elsevier. He served as an editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, and an editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. Read More Read Less