Dr. Tsann-wang Yu received his BS degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the National Taiwan University in 1967, and his MS and PhD degrees in Atmospheric Sciences of the Department of Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970 and 1972 respectively.  After completing his doctoral degree, Dr. Yu taught one year as Assistant Professor in 1973-1974 at the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. From 1974 to 1976, Dr. Yu was awarded a National Academy of Science / National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to do research at the Techniques Development Laboratory of the NOAA National Weather Service in Silver Spring, Maryland.

    Over the next 30 years from 1976 to 2005, Dr. Yu was a research meteorologist at NOAA National Meteorological Center, and National Centers for Environmental Prediction in Camp Springs, Maryland. His expertise areas of research are geophysical fluid dynamics, atmospheric analyses and data assimilation, and numerical weather and climate prediction.  From 2005 to the present time, Dr. Yu has been serving as the Distinguished Scientist of NOAA Center for Atmospheric Sciences, and directing a research program in atmospheric sciences for a Center comprised of five universities: University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, Jackson State University at Jackson Mississippi, University of Puerto Rico at Mayague, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and State University of New York at Albany.  Dr. Yu currently also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Howard University in Washington D.C.