Yang Wang

Biography

August 2025-Present
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

August 2022-July 2025
Visiting Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Education

• PhD, University of Colorado Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, 2021
• ME, Nanyang Technological University, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2016
• BE, Beihang University, Electronic and Information Engineering, 2013

Research

• Satellite navigation
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)
• GNSS Reflectometry (GNSS-R)
• GNSS radio occultation (RO)
• GNSS receiver design
• Low Earth Orbit (LEO) SmallSat
• Signal processing
• Remote sensing
• Space weather
• Ionosphere
• Lower atmospheric measurement and retrieval
• Earth surface observations: river, lake, ocean, sea ice, ice sheet, etc.

Professional Service

• Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Navigation (ION), and American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE Access, IEEE Sensors Journal, Geophysical Research Letters, JGR – Machine Learning and Computation, Space Weather, NAVIGATION: Journal of The Institute of Navigation, GPS Solutions, Radio Science, Scientific Data, etc.
• Workshop/conference sessions co-chairing/convening/review committee: IEEE IGARSS 2025; AGU 2024; ION Pacific PNT 2024; IEEE IGARSS 2023; IEEE GNSS+R 2023; ION GNSS+ 2023; National Radio Science Meeting (NRSM) 2023, 2024; IEEE GNSS+R 2021.

Awards and Recognitions

• NASA Heliophysics Early Career Investigator Award, 2023
• Bradford W. Parkinson Award, Institute of Navigation (ION), 2022
• NSF CEDAR Workshop Early Career Science Highlight, 2022
• Hydrology Section Remote Sensing Technical Committee Student Award, American Geophysical Union, 2021
• Lockheed Martin Corporation Endowed Graduate Fellowship, College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Colorado, 2021
• Outstanding Graduate Student in Research, Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, 2021
• Session’s Best Presentation Award, ION GNSS+, 2020

Publications

• Y. Wang, J. T. Minear, and A. Putnam, “Precise Mapping of Relative Surface Elevation Using Spaceborne GNSS-R Phase Altimetry with Crossover Adjustment: A Case Study of Lake Ladoga,” Remote Sensing of Environment, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2025.114993.
• S. Anderson, Y. Wang, and Y. J. Morton, “Relating GNSS Reflected Signal Coherence to Ice Shelf Surface Deformation and Roughness,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3538558.
• Y. Wang, Y. J. Morton, J. T. Minear, A. Putnam, A. Conrad, P. Axelrad, R. S. Nerem, A. Warnock, C. Ruf, D. M. Moreirae, and M. Talpe, “Measuring River Slope Using Spaceborne GNSS Reflectometry: Methodology and Performance Assessment,” Remote Sensing of Environment, 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2025.114597.
• P.-H. Cheng, Y. Wang, L. Liu, and Y. J. Morton, “Detection of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Triggered by 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruptions through CubeSats Coherent GNSS-Reflectometry Measurement,” Journal of Geophysical Research – Space Physics, 2024. doi: 10.1029/2023JA032229.
• Y. Wang, “Troposphere Sensing Using Grazing-Angle GNSS-R Measurement from LEO Satellites,” Geophysical Research Letters, 2023. doi: 10.1029/2023GL106249.
• E. Loria, I. M. Russo, Y. Wang, G. Giangregorio, C. Galdi, M. Di Bisceglie, B. Wilson-Downs, M. Lavalle, A. O’Brien, Y. J. Morton, and C. Zuffada, “Comparison of GNSS-R Coherent Reflection Detection Algorithms Using Simulated and Measured CYGNSS Data,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3277411.
• J. Zhang, Y. J. Morton, Y. Wang, and C. Roesler, “Mapping Surface Water Extents Using High-rate Coherent Space-borne GNSS-R Measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2022. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3218254.
• P. Wang, Y. Wang, and Y. J. Morton, “Adaptive closed-Loop tracking algorithm and experimental results for multipath mitigation of LTE signals in urban environments,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TAES.2021.3139569.
• L. Liu, Y. J. Morton, and Y. Wang, “Mapping arctic TEC using LEO satellite-based GNSS-reflection measurements: a simulation study,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3138692.
• C. J. Roesler, Y. J. Morton, Y. Wang, and R. S. Nerem, “Coherent GNSS-reflection characterization over ocean and sea ice based on Spire Global CubeSat data,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021. doi: 10.1109 /TGRS.2021.3129999.
• Y. Wang and Y. J. Morton, “River slope observation from spaceborne GNSS-R carrier phase measurements: a case study,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2021. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2021.3127750.
• I. Collett, Y. Wang, R. Shah, and Y. J. Morton, “Phase coherence of GPS signal land reflections and its dependence on surface characteristics,” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2021. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2021.3094407.
• Y. Wang and Y. J. Morton, “Ionospheric total electron content and disturbances observations from coherent space borne GNSS-R measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3093328.
• Y. Wang, B. Breitsch, and Y. J. Morton, “A state-based method to simultaneously reduce cycle slips and noise in coherent GNSS-R phase measurements from open-Loop tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2020.3036031.
• Y. Wang and Y. J. Morton, “Coherent GNSS reflection signal processing for high-precision and high-resolution spaceborne applications,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.20 20.2993804.
• Y. Wang, R. Yang, and Y. J. Morton, “Kalman filter-based robust closed-loop carrier tracking of airborne GNSS radio-occultation signals,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2020. doi: 10.1109/TAES.2020.2972248.
• I. Collett, Y. J. Morton, Y. Wang, and B. Breitsch, “Characterization and mitigation of interference between GNSS radio occultation and reflectometry signals for low-altitude occultations,” NAVIGATION, Journal of the Institute of Navigation, 2020. doi: 10.1002/navi.375.