Simon H. Yueh received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in January 1991 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from February to August 1991. In September 1991, he joined the Radar Science and Engineering Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and worked as a radar system engineer for the SIR-C, NSCAT and SeaWinds missions. He is Principal Engineer at JPL. He led the Aquarius instrument team for a successful National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth System Science Pathfinder mission proposal. He is the Aquarius instrument scientist.

He has been the Principal/Co-Investigator of numerous research projects, including the polarimetric wind radiometer research; airborne scatterometer project for hurricane wind measurements; Passive/Active L-/S-band (PALS) radiometer and radar project; NASA Instrument Incubator Project for a mission concept using a large mesh-deployable antenna for soil moisture and ocean salinity sensing; the airborne polarimetric radar (POLSCAT) for ocean wind velocity measurements; the POLSCAT/Cold Land Processes Experiment (CLPX) in 2002-2004; and the Advanced Component Technology lightweight dual-frequency antenna feed project.

Simon is leading the development of Snow and Cold Land Processes (SCLP) mission concept at JPL. He is the PI of the airborne POLSCAT experiment for CLPX-2 in 2006-2008 for flights in Colorado and Alaska.

Simon has authored four book chapters and published 55 refereed articles and more than 100 conference presentations and reports. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and an Associate Editor of Radio Science.

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1998-present)
  • Aquarius Instrument Scientist
  • Principal Engineer, Climate, Oceans and Solid Earth Section
  • Supervisor, Radar System Engineering and Algorithm Development Group, Radar Science and Engineering Section
  • Principal Engineer, Radar Science and Engineering Section
  • Senior Engineer, Radar Science and Engineering Section
  • Member of Technical Staff, SIR-C, NSCAT, SeaWinds radar system engineering, Radar Science and Engineering Section
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1986-1991)
  • Postdoctoral research associate
  • Research Assistant

1. NASA Group Achievement Award, AQ Launch, Early Orbit Ops, and Commissioning Team (2012)
2. NASA Honor Award for the SeaWinds/AMSR Processing Team (2007)
3. JPL Edward Stone Award for Outstanding Research Publication, "Error Sources and Feasibility for Microwave Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Salinity," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 39, 1049-1060, 2001 (2003)
4. IEEE GRSS Transaction Prize Paper award for the paper, entitled "Polarimetric Radar Remote Sensing of Ocean Surface Wind" (2002)
5. Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Symposium 2000. The title of the paper is "QuikSCAT Geophysical Model Function and Imaging of Tropical Cyclone Winds" (2000)
6. JPL Lew Allen Award for Excellence "in recognition for his pioneering research of passive microwave polarimetric remote sensing to earth surface investigations" (1998)
7. NASA Scatterometer Group Achievement Award (1996)
8. IEEE GRSS Transaction Prize Paper award for a paper on polarimetric radiometry (1995)