guangning yang

Guangning Yang received his BS in physics from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University. He worked at Tyco Submarine Systems as lead design engineer for the first 10GBPS transmitter for trans-oceanic optical communication. In 2000, he worked as the Technical Section Lead for high-speed optical communication terminal for Dorsal/Corvis Networks. For the past 15 years he has worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) on lidar and laser ranging and communication. He was the Product Development Lead on photon counting detector for the ATLAS Laser Altimeter instrument on ICESAT-2 Mission, is currently PI for LCRD optimetrics experiment, and PI for CASALS lidar development.