Xueyang Duan

Xueyang Duan (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in communication engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2004, the M.S. degree in microelectronics, communications technology from the University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, in 2006, the M.S. degree in applied mathematics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Radiation Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. From 2006 to 2007, she was with the Test and Measurement Division, Rohde and Schwarz, Munich, Germany, as a Development Engineer. She spent two years as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, before she joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA in 2014, as a Systems Engineer working on the UAVSAR, the AirMOSS, and the AIRSAR-NG projects, as well as the Europa Clipper mission. Her research interests include forward and inverse modeling of electromagnetic scattering from layered rough surfaces with or without buried objects, radar system design, and radar measurements of vegetation and ground variables.