Distinguished Lecturer

Yong Yan is a professor of electronic instrumentation and Head of Instrumentation, Control and Embedded Systems Research Group at School of Engineering and Digital Arts, the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. He received the B.Eng. and M.Sc. in instrumentation and control from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in particle flow measurement from the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, U.K., in 1992. He started his academic career as an assistant lecturer at Tsinghua University in 1988.

Annamária R. Várkonyi-Kóczy (M’94–SM’97–F’07) was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1957. She received the M.Sc. E.E., M.Sc.M.E.-T., and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Budapest and the D.Sc. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1981, 1983, 1996, and 2010, respectively.

Phil Bartley received a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University in 1973 and 1976.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2005.  His work experience includes positions at several US Naval facilities.  His duties included writing software for computer aided test systems.  He was a microwave systems engineer and district manager at the Hewlett Packard Company. He co-founded Innovative Measurement Solutions, Inc.

Wuqiang Yang is a Fellow of the IET (formerly IEE), Fellow of the InstMC and Fellow of the IEEE. He received his BEng, MSc and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University in Beijing. Since 1991, he has been with The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) in the UK and now is a professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His main research interests include industrial tomography, especially electrical capacitance tomography, image reconstruction algorithms, sensing and data acquisition systems, electronic circuit design, instrumentation and multiphase measurement.