Rate My Professor Tian-You Yu

Tian-You Yu is a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an affiliated professor in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, where he also serves as Director of Operations for the Advanced Radar Research Center. He earned a B.S. degree in atmospheric physics and an M.S. degree in space science from National Central University in Taiwan, followed by a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2000. Following his doctorate, Yu worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research for two years before joining the University of Oklahoma in 2002. His career has centered on bridging electrical engineering and atmospheric science through radar technology.

Yu's research specializes in digital signal processing for radar observations of atmospheric phenomena. Prior to OU, he studied atmospheric dynamics from the boundary layer to the mesosphere using profiler radars. Current interests include developing advanced radar technologies to improve measurements in conventional and phased array systems, enhance severe weather warnings such as tornado detection via spectral processing, and advance knowledge of meteorological events. He has developed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in radar technology and science and serves as an Associate Editor for Transactions on Radar Systems. Notable publications include "Coherent radar imaging using Capon's method" (Radio Science, 1998), "The atmospheric imaging radar: Simultaneous volumetric observations using a phased array weather radar" (Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 2013), "Observations of the 10 May 2010 tornado outbreak using OU-PRIME" (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2011), "Horus—A fully digital polarimetric phased array radar for next-generation weather observations" (IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, 2023), and "A primer on phased array radar technology for the atmospheric sciences" (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2022). His work has amassed over 2,500 citations, influencing weather radar advancements.