Biography
Xue-Xia Yang (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor and the Head of the Antennas and Microwave Research and Development Center, Shanghai University, China. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electromagnetic field and microwave technology from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2001. From 1994 to 1998, she was a Teaching Assistant and a Lecturer with Lanzhou University. From 2001 to 2008, she was a Lecturer and an Associate Professor with Shanghai University, where she is currently a Professor. From 2011 to 2012, she was a visiting scholar with the Department of Electronic Engineering, the University of Mississippi, USA. She has authored or coauthored more than 200 technical journal articles and conference papers. She is also a frequent reviewer for more than ten scientific journals. Her current research interests include reconfigurable antennas, beam scanning arrays, phased arrays, computational electromagnetics, microwave power transmission, EM energy harvesting, simultaneous wireless information and power transmission. Prof. Yang is a Committee member of Antenna Society of China Electronics Institute, a Committee member of Microwave Society of China Electronics Institute and a Senior Member of the China Electronics Institute. She is an Associate Editor of Radio Science, and also Associate Editor of Journal of Shanghai University (Science Edition).