Geogria Institute of Technology

B.S., Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Vigor Yang received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1985. Prior to joining Georgia Tech in 2009, he was the John L. and Genevieve H. McCain Chair in Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. His research interests cover a wide spectrum of topical areas focusing on combustion, energy, and chemical propulsion. He has supervised 45 Ph.D. and 15 M.S. theses. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 technical papers and has published 10 comprehensive volumes in the areas of combustion, propulsion, and energetics. He was the recipient of the Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Teaching and Premier Research Awards, and several publication and technical awards from AIAA, including the Air-Breathing Propulsion (2005), Pendray Aerospace Literature (2008), and Propellant & Combustion (2009) Awards.

Dr. Yang was the Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power (2000-2009). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the JANNAF Journal of Propulsion and Energetics (2009-), and a co-editor of the Aerospace Book Series of the Cambridge University Press (2010-). In addition, he has served or serves on the editorial advisory boards of virtually all major journals in aerospace propulsion and power, combustion, and energetics. He has been a consultant to many U.S. rocket and airbreathing propulsion companies as well as government organizations. A Fellow of AIAA and ASME, Dr. Yang is the Vice President for Publications of AIAA (2012-2015).

• Combustion, fluid mechanics, chemical rocket and air-breathing propulsion, energy, and energetics. 
• 64 research projects (up to 2011), including 8 DoD Multiple University Research Initiative (MURI) programs in the areas of aerospace propulsion and energetics.

• Outstanding Teaching Award, Penn State Engineering Society, 1989 
• Best Paper Awards, AIAA (Propellants and Combustion, 1996; Air-Breathing Propulsion, 2004, 2007)
• Premier Research Award, Penn State Engineering Society (2005) 
• Air-Breathing Propulsion Award, AIAA (2005) 
• Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, AIAA (2008) 
• Propellants and Combustion Award, AIAA (2009)

• Yang, V. and Anderson, W. E. (eds.), Liquid Rocket Engine Combustion Instability, AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 169, 1995, 577 pages. 
• Yang, V., Brill, T., and Ren, W. Z. (eds.), Solid-Propellant Chemistry, Combustion, and Motor Interior Ballistics, AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 185, 2000, 990 pages
• Yang, V., Habiballah, M., Hulka, J., and Popp, M. (eds.), Liquid Rocket Thrust Chambers: Aspects of Modeling, Analysis, and Design, AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 200, 2004, 722 pages
• Lieuwen, T. C. and Yang, V. (eds.), Combustion Instabilities in Gas Turbine Engines: Operational Experience, Fundamental Mechanisms, and Modeling, AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 210, 2005, 657 pages.
• Dranovsky, M., Yang, V., Culick, F. E. C., and Talley, D. G., Combustion Instabilities in Liquid Rocket Engines: Testing and Development Practices in Russia, AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 221, 2007, 320 pages. 
• Lieuwen, T. C., Yang, V., and Yetter, R. A. (eds.), Syngas Combustion, CRC Press, 2009 
• Shih, T. I. and Yang, V. (eds.), Gas Turbine Science and Technology, AIAA Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics, 2012 
• Lieuwen, T. C. and Yang, V. (eds), Gas Turbine Emissions, Cambridge Press, 2012
• Dranovsky, M., Timushev, S., Kim, E. S., and Yang, V., Design, Development, and Testing of Staged-Combustion Rocket Engines: Turbopump and Combustion Instabilities, 2012
• Bazarov, V. and Yang, V., Injector Flow Dynamics for Propulsion Engines, 2012