Leung Tsang received the BS, MS, and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. He was a Professor with the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, from 1983 to 2014, and was the Chair of the EE Department from 2006 to 2011. Since January 2015, he has been a Professor with the Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. From 2001-2004, he was on leave at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the City University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Tsang was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote sensing from 1996 to 2000. He was the President of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) in 2006-2007. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award from GRSS in 2008. He received the Golden Florin Award from the Italian Microwave Remote Sensing Society in 2010, the William Pecora Award co-sponsored by USGS and NASA in 2012, the IEEE Electromagnetics Award in 2013, and the van de Hulst Light Scattering Award in 2018. He is an honorary life member of GRSS.
Dr. Tsang is the lead author of four books: Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing and Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves (Volumes 1–3). His current research interests are in remote sensing, electromagnetic theory, propagation and scattering, random media, computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, and photonic crystals. Dr. Tsang is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.