Fan Yang received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1997 and 1999, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2002.From 1994 1999, he was a research assistant with the State Key Laboratory of Microwave and Digital Communications, Tsinghua University. From 1999 2002, he was a graduate student researcher with the Antenna Laboratory, UCLA. From 2002 2004, he was a post-doctoral research engineer and instructor with the Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA. In 2004, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at The University of Mississippi as an assistant professor, and was promoted to a tenured associate professor. In 2011, he joined the Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University as a professor, and has served as the Director of the Microwave and Antenna Institute since then.Prof. Yang s research interests include antennas, surface electromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, and applied electromagnetic systems. He has published over 200 journal articles and conference papers, six book chapters, and three books entitled Scattering Analysis of Periodic Structures Using Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Morgan & Claypool, 2012), Electromagnetic Band Gap Structures in Antenna Engineering (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009), and Electromagnetics and Antenna Optimization Using Taguchi s Method (Morgan & Claypool, 2007).Prof. Yang served as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2010 2013) and an associate editor-in-chief of Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Journal (2008 2014). He was the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair of 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting. Dr. Yang has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and recognitions, including the Young Scientist Award of the 2005 URSI General Assembly and of the 2007 International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, the 2008 Junior Faculty Research Award of the University of Mississippi, the 2009 inaugural IEEE Donald G. Dudley Jr. Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the 2011 Recipient of Global Experts Program of China.
CCA countries achieved gains in inclusiveness over the past 20 years as incomes increased and poverty, inequality, and unemployment declined. Most of the progress occurred before the 2008–09 global more...
Author/Editor: Corinne C Delechat, Monique Newiak, Rui Xu, Fan Yang, Goksu Aslan.
Release Date:March, 2018
Using a broad set of macroeconomic country characteristics to supplement a new and comprehensive micro-level dataset for 140 countries, we identify structural factors, policies, and individual more...
We investigate the link between gender inequality in financial inclusion and income inequality, with three contributions to the recent literature. First, using a micro-dataset covering 146,000 more...
This paper assesses the extent of economic and financial integration among the East African Community (EAC) along a number of dimensions and, where possible, whether integration has increased in the more...
Author/Editor: Emre Alper, R Armando Morales, Fan Yang.
Release Date:June, 2016
This paper analyzes the degree to which volatility in interbank interest rates leads to volatility in financial instruments with longer maturities (e.g., T-bills) in Kenya since 2012, year in which more...
Author/Editor: Dalia S Hakura, Mumtaz Hussain, Monique Newiak, Vimal Thakoor, Fan Yang.
Release Date:June, 2016
A growing body of empirical evidence suggests that inequality—income or gender related—can impede economic growth. Using dynamic panel regressions and new time series data, this paper finds that more...
Author/Editor: Paolo Mauro, Herve Joly, Ari Aisen, Emre Alper, Francois Boutin-Dufresne, Jemma Dridi, Nikoloz Gigineishvili, Tom Josephs, Clara Mira, Vimal V Thakoor, Alun H Thomas, Fan Yang.
Release Date:August, 2015
This paper takes stock of the main fiscal risks facing the EAC partner countries. These include macroeconomic shocks, and specific risks, such as the financial performance of the public enterprises, more...
