Education

B.S. Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 1969 (with honors)

Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 1974

Professional Experience 

Research Fellow and Lecturer in Atmospheric Sciences, Harvard University, 1974-1977

Assistant Professor of Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology, 1977-1982

Associate Professor, 1982-1986; Professor, 1986-2011 

Smits Family Professor, 2012-2016, Professor, 2017-; JPL Senior Research Scientist, 2014-

Honors/Awards

Fellow, American Geophysical Union, elected 2003

NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 2004

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 2005

Academician, Academia Sinica, elected 2010 

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 2011 

Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California (CESASC)   Achievement Award, 2014

Gerard P. Kuiper Prize, Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, 2015

Asteroid (19370) Yukyung, American Astronomical Society, 2015

Spacecraft Investigations

Co-investigator, NASA Cassini Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (UVIS) Experiment

Team Member, NASA Orbital Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) Mission

Interdisciplinary Scientist, ESA Venus Express

Team Member, New Horizons Mission (to Pluto and Kuiper Belt Object)

Research Areas: Professor Yung’s research interest consists of six major overlapping areas: planetary atmospheres, planetary evolution, atmospheric chemistry, atmospheric radiation, astrobiology and global change, with a strong emphasis on the synergy between modeling and observations, and collaboration with colleagues at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).  

Publications

R. M. Goody and Y. L. Yung, Atmospheric Radiation: Theoretical Basis, OUP, 1989.

Y. L. Yung and W. D. DeMore, Photochemistry of Planetary Atmospheres, OUP, 1999.

List of more than 390 refereed publications in 

http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~yly/yly_mac/ReprintsYLY_CV_Biblio/Biblio_Yung_2020.pdf

Reprints are available in http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~yly/yly_mac/ReprintsYLY/

Highlights are in http://web.gps.caltech.edu/~yly/yly_mac/yung_highlights/