Research Interests

Electromagnetic field and wave scattering and transmission

Spaceborne microwave remote sensing and deep space/alien planet exploration

Spaceborne high-resolution polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) information technology

Environmental and Earth/space/sea target identification and computational electromagnetics

Theoretical modelling – numerical simulation – inversion reconstruction – intelligent perception information technology

Academic Service

Fellow: TWAS, IAA, IEEE (Life Fellow), EMA (The World Academy of Sciences; International Academy of Astronautics; IEEE Life Fellow; Electromagnetics Academy)

Associate Editor, IEEE Access (2011– )

Member, IEEE GRSS Major Awards Committee (2017– )

Associate Editor, China Science (Information Technology) (2009– )

Distinguished Speaker, IEEE GRSS (2009– )

Co-General Chair, IGARSS 2016

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on GRS (2005–2012)

Member, IEEE GRSS AdCom (2009–2011)

Co-Chair of Technical Committee, IGARSS 2012, Canada

Chair, IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee (GRSS) (2009–2011)

Awards and Honours

IEEE GRSS Distinguished Achievement Award, 2015

Golden Florin Award, 2022

IEEE GRS Education Award, 2010

Second Prize of National Natural Science Award, 2011

Third Prize of National Natural Science Award, 1993

National First Prize of Innovation for Science and Technology, 2017

National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker, 2016

National Book Award, 1997

First Prize of Guanghua Science and Technology Foundation Award, 1993

Shanghai Science and Technology Contribution Award, 2016

First Prize of Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education (three times: 2009, 1996, 1992)

First Prize of National Outstanding Science and Technology Book Award, 1997

Special Prize of National Outstanding Teacher, Baosteel Education Foundation, 1997

National Young and Middle-Aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions, 1994

Advanced Individual, National 973 Programme, 2004

Second Prize of Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education (twice: 1999, 2020)

Second Prize of Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, 2001

Fudan University President’s Award, 2004

Excellent Work Award in Science and Art, Shanghai International Science and Art Exhibition, 2012

Education and Work Experience

Sept. 1965 – Mar. 1970: Undergraduate in Atmospheric Physics, School of Physics, Peking University

Sept. 1978 – Dec. 1979: First batch of government-sponsored graduate students for overseas study, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing

Jan. 1980 – Dec. 1984: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science): MS (Feb. 1982), EE (Feb. 1983), PhD (Feb. 1985)

Teaching

Advanced Electromagnetic Field Theory

Microwave Remote Sensing Theory

Computational Electromagnetics for Complex Systems

Selected Publications

1. Electromagnetic Scattering Modelling for Quantitative Remote Sensing, Singapore ,World Scientific, 1994,

2. Theory and Approach of Information Retrievals from Electromagnetic Scattering and Remote Sensing,,2005,Berlin Heidelberg New York: Springer,

3. Polarimetric Scattering and SAR Information Retrieval ,New York: John Wiley-IEEE,2013,,

4. Information of Electromagnetic Scattering and Radiative Transfer in Natural Media,Beijing: Science Press,,Volume 1 1983-2000,

5. Information of Electromagnetic Scattering and Radiative Transfer,Beijing: Science Press,,Natural Media Volume 2 2001-2010 ,

6. Information of Electromagnetic Scattering and Radiative Transfer,Beijing: Science Press,,Natural Media Volume 3, 2011-2020

7. Wave Propagation, Scattering and Emission,Complex Media, Beijing: Science Press and Singapore: World Scientific,2004,,

8. Selected Papers on Microwave Lunar Exploration in Chinese Cheng E-1 Project (ChinaMicrowave lunar-exploration research),,2011, Beijing: Science Press,

9. "Remote-Sensing Theory of Electromagnetic Scattering and Thermal Radiation", 2nd printing 1998, 3rd printing 2009,Beijing: Science Press,

10. "Vector Radiative Transfer Theory and Parameter Inversion",Science and Engineering Computation Series,1994,Henan Science and Technology Press,

11. "Theory and Methods for Validating Spaceborne Microwave Remote-Sensing Data",,2005,Beijing: Science Press,

12. random rough surfacesandtheory of numerical simulation of composite target scatteringand methods,2008,,Beijing: Science Press,

13. "Polarimetric Scattering and SAR Remote-Sensing Information Theory and Methods",,2008,Beijing: Science Press,

14. "Theory and Methods of Planetary Microwave Remote Sensing", 2019, Beijing: Science Press

15. "Intelligent Interpretation of Radar Target Images", 2021, Beijing: Science Press

16. "Electromagnetic Waves in Complex Systems",,1995,Shanghai: Fudan University Press,

17. "Theory and Application of Spatiotemporally-Quantitative Information Acquisition and Fusion Processing in Complex Natural Environments",2005,Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technical Publishers