Prof. Dr. Weidong Yu is currently the Deputy Director of the Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, IECAS. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Aerospace, Nanjing, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He has been with the Institute of Electronic, Chinese Academy of Science (IECAS), since 1997, and became a Professor of communication and information systems in 2000. He has authored more than 50 papers and holds five patents. He has been awarded Multi-polarization SAR system and its application, second prize, ministerial level (2015), First Prize for Military Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize, Ministry Level  (2016), Second Prize of National Invention Award, Second Prize, National Level (2019) and Gaofen-3 synthetic aperture radar subsystem, first prize, ministerial level (2020). He is also a Member of IEEE and has been the Chief Designer for several SAR systems. His current research interests include airborne and spaceborne SAR system design and their signal processing.