Jun Yang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He received his bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University and his doctorate from Purdue University, and subsequently conducted research at the University of Wisconsin and the Paul Scherrer Institute. His research interests include reactor thermal hydraulics and safety analysis, reactor scaling, best-estimate analysis with uncertainty quantification, and reactor digitalization and digital twins. His research experience also includes collaborative simulation studies of plastic scintillating fiber arrays for tritium detection in water and the supervision of research on radiation measurement.