Wuqiang Yang (FIEEE, FIET, FInstMC, CEng) graduated from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Since 1991, he has been working with University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and The University of Manchester in the UK.
He became Professor of Electronic Instrumentation in 2005 and is currently the director of Joint Research Laboratory of Touch Sensors for Domestic Robots. His main research areas are electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) and capacitive tactile sensors. He has published >400 papers and two books with an h-index of 53 according to Google Scholar. He is currently an Associate Editor of IET Sci. Meas. Technol., and editorial board member of IET International Book Series on Sensors, guest editor of >10 journal special issues, and reviewer for >50 journals and book publishers. He received several national awards, including 2021 IEEE IMS Best Application Award. He was an IEEE IMS Distinguished Lecturer (DL) from 2010 to 2016, giving lectures on ECT and industrial applications. He has been appointed IEEE IMS DL again, giving lectures on capacitive tactile sensors for robot applications. He is one of key organizers of IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques for nearly 20 years. His biography has been included in Who’s Who in the World since 2002.
