His current research interests include wave propagation in random media and rough surfaces, channel modeling in wirelss communications, remote sensing, high speed interconnects, computational electromagnetics, and opto-electronics. He has published 211 journal articles. Between 1996 and 2001, Dr Tsang was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Dr Tsang is a Fellow of IEEE (1990) and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1996). He received the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Outstanding Service Award in 2000. He was also a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000. Since January 2004, he has been the Executive Vice President of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.