Professor Yang

Professor Yang

Biography

Prof. Yang was born in Shanghai, China. He received his Electrical Engineering degree from Zhejiang University, China in 1960 and his Ph. D. from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1982. 1960-1979 he was Lecturer in North China Electric Power University. After his return from his Ph. D. studies in Australia he developed in 1984 the first microprocessor based protective relay in China.

In 1986 he was awarded the "Science and Technology Elite" by the government of Hebei province, China, and "Youth Technologist of the Outstanding Contribution" by the Chinese government.

In 1987 he became Professor in North China Electric Power University (NCEPU).

In 1990 he developed the second generation microprocessor based protective relay using multi-CPU hardware. In 1994 he developed the third generation protection, was

awarded “Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering” and became CEO of a Chinese-American company - Hathaway Sifang Protection and Control Company Ltd., that he set up. Since 2006 he is the Chairman of the Board of the new Sifang Electric Group.

He has authored more than 80 papers and a book on Basics of Microprocessor Based Protection.