Biography
Xueyang Duan received her B.Eng. degree in communication engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China in 2004 and M.S. degree in microelectronics, communications technology from the University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany in 2006. From 2006 to 2007, she was with the Test and Measurement Division, Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, Germany, as a development engineer for vector network analyzer. In 2012, she received her Ph.D. degree in the Radiation Laboratory of the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, where she received her M.S. degree in applied mathematics in 2010. Currently, she is continuing her research as a postdoctoral research associate in the department of Electrical Engineering in the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Her research interests include forward and inverse modeling of electromagnetic scattering from layered rough surfaces with or without buried objects, radar system design and radar measurements of vegetation and ground variables.
