Yang Lei wins best interactive paper prize at IGARSS 2022

MIRSL graduate Yang Lei (Ph.D. 2016) and Paul Siqueira shared the IEEE GRSS Symposium Interactive Prize Paper Award at IGARSS 2022 held in Kuala Lampur. The paper title was Refined Foreststand Height Inversion Approach with Spaceborne Repeat-Pass L-band SAR Interferometry and GEDI Lidar Data and is an extension to Yang’s PhD thesis Electromagnetic Scattering models for InSAR Correlation Measurements of  Vegetation and Snow for which he won the ECE Department’s inaugural Dissertation Prize.  After spending one year in industry and three as a post-doc at JPL & Caltech, Yang is now a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.  Congratulations, Yang!