Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

Research Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Profiled on JPL’s official Radar Science pages: Soil Moisture · Snow

Education

• Ph.D. / M.S., Electrical Engineering — University of Washington, Seattle (2011)
• B.Eng., Electrical Engineering — Zhejiang University (2006), Chu Kochen Honors College

Selected awards

• Featured Article, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2024 Women’s Day
• JPL Team Award, 2024 — SMAP SDS cloud transition
• 2022 J-STARS Prize Paper Award — “A Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar Concept Using P-Band Signals of Opportunity” (Yueh, Shah, Xu, Stiles), IEEE JSTARS
• 2020 URSI Santimay Basu Prize — “For Developments in Wave Propagation and Scattering in Dense Random Media with Applications to Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow”
• 2018 IEEE AP-S Ulrich L. Rohde Innovative Conference Paper Award
• NASA Group Achievement Award — SMAP Science and Cal/Val Team

Professional activities

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, since 2026
• Associate Editor, Remote Sensing (Special Issue on Advanced Microwave RS for Hydrology), 2024
• NASA ROSES review panelist, since 2021
• Session Chair, IEEE IGARSS, since 2015
• Organizing Committee, PIERS St Petersburg, 2017