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Speaker name: Prof. Vigor Yang

Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.

Curriculum vitae: 

Vigor Yang is presently Ralph N. Read Chair and Regents’ Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was Chair of Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering for a decade (2009-2018). He has published 10 comprehensive volumes and numerous technical papers on combustion, propulsion, and energetics. He was the recipient of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Air-Breathing Propulsion Award (2005), the Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (2008), the Propellants and Combustion Award (2009), and the von Kármán Lectureship in Astronautics Award (2016). He was awarded the Worcester Reed Warner Medal (2014) by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) by the Joint U.S. Army, Navy, NASA, and Air Force (JANNAF) Interagency Propulsion Committee. He also received the Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences Award (2019) from the American Statistical Association (JSA).

Dr. Yang was the editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power (2001-2009) and the JANNAF Journal of Propulsion and Energetics (2009-2012). He is currently a co-editor of the Aerospace Book Series of the Cambridge University Press (2010-). A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, an Academician of Academia Sinica, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Dr. Yang is a fellow of the AIAA, ASME, Royal Aeronautical Society, and Combustion Institute. He was a vice president and a member of the executive committee of the AIAA (2012-2015).

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