Yang Yang

Yang Yang  (S’11–M’14-SM’17) was born in Bayan Nur, Inner Mongolia, China and received a PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia, in 2013.

In 2012, Dr. Yang joined Rain Bird Australia, Melbourne, Australia, serving as an Asia Pacific GSP Engineer. In April 2015, he returned to academia, holding the position of Senior Research Associate in microwave and antenna technologies at Macquarie University. In April 2016, he was appointed as a Research Fellow with the State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong Kong. In December 2016, Dr. Yang joined the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He is currently a Professor and a Group Leader of 3D Millimetre-Wave and Terahertz Circuits and Antennas in UTS Tech Lab. His research interests include additively manufactured electronics, millimetre-wave and sub-terahertz technologies in 5G and beyond and biomedical applications. He has over 300 international publications in microwave, millimetre-wave and terahertz circuits and antennas.

Dr Yang is the Australian Research Council Mid-Career Industry Fellow (2025-2029). He was selected as one of the “Top 2 % Most Highly Cited Scientists by Stanford” every year since 2019. He received many distinguished awards, including the 2025 Advanced Materials Innovation Award by the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), 2024 IEEE MTT-S IMS First Place in the Early Career Award Competition (serving as the ECR advisor), 2023 IEEE NSW Section Outstanding Service Award, 2023 IEEE AP-S Outstanding Chapter Award and 2022 IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Chapter Award. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (from October 2022), an Associate Editor of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Technology Letters (from October 2024), a Guest Editor of Proceedings of the IEEE (2024), an Area Editor of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (2019-2024), an Associate Editor of IEEE Access (2018-2022), and a Guest Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2022). Dr Yang is the Inaugural Chair of IEEE MTT-S TC-17 Microwave Materials and Processing Technologies. He is a committee member of IEEE AP-S TC-8 Wireless Communication and IEEE MTT-S TC-28 Biological Effects and Medical Applications. During 2022-2024, he was a committee member of the AP-S Technical Committee on Antenna Measurements and the AP-S Technical Directions Committee. His appointments at IEEE NSW Section, Region 10, include the committee member of the IEEE NSW Section, the Treasurer (2018-2019) and the Chair/Vice Chair (2020-2024) of the IEEE NSW AP/MTT Joint Chapter, the Secretary (2019) of IEEE NSW PH/ED/SSC/CAS Joint Chapter, the Inaugural Committee/Treasurer (2020) and Vice Chair (2022-2024) of IEEE NSW Electron Devices Chapter. He also volunteered in various conference organizing committees, such as the General Co-Chair of the 2025 Australian Microwave Symposium, General Co-Chair (Executive Chair) of the inaugural annual international conference on IEEE Additively Manufactured Electronic Systems (AMES2025) and General Chair of IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Advanced Materials and Processes for RF and THz Applications (IMWS-AMP 2026). Dr. Yang serves as the Secretary of the Administrative Committee for the 2026 IEEE MTT-S.