Dr. Yang Li received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2005, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He joined the faculty of Baylor University in August 2011 and is currently a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.
His research interests include body area wave propagation and antenna radiation, effective medium theory and homogenization technique, electrically small antenna design, leaky-wave antenna design, micro-doppler radar, and metamaterials.
He is the recipient of the CST University publication award, the Chinese government award for outstanding students abroad, the Doctoral Research Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, the 3rd prize at the 2010 USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting student paper contest, and the Houston Endowment President’s Excellence Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin.