Dr. Yun Yang is an assistant professor in the Soil and Crop Sciences Section at Cornell University. Dr. Yang obtained her Bachelor's degree from Beijing Normal University in Geography and received her master and Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts in Environmental Sciences. She has worked at USDA Agricultural Research Service and the University of Maryland as a research scientist and at Mississippi State University as an assistant professor. Her research interests focus on studying the energy and water fluxes between land surfaces and atmosphere and the applications in various ecosystems, using remote sensing, modeling, and cloud computing as the major approaches.

She is in OpenET science team and NASA ECOSTRESS science team. She is also a member of NASA ACRES consortium. She serves as an associate editor for Earth System Science Data and the Journal of American Water Resources Association and an editor for Remote Sensing.