Fan Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree from University of California, Los Angles, all in electric engineering, in 1997, 1999, and 2002, respectively.

He is an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering Department of University of Mississippi. Prior to join Univerisity of Mississippi, he was a research engineer in the UCLA Antenna Laboratory. From September 2003 to June 2004, he was also a lecturer in the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. From 1999 to 2002, he was a graduate student researcher in the Antenna Research, Applications, and Measurement Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles. He was a research assistant in the State Key Laboratory of Microwave and Digital Communications, Tsinghua University, China, from 1994 to 1999.

His research interests include microstrip antenna and reconfigurable antenna designs, electromagnetic band gap structures, numerical methods in electromagnetics, and antenna measurement techniques.