Dr. Lin Yi is a physicist, technologist, and technical group supervisor of the Advanced RF and Optical Technologies Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. His research and engineering interests are novel communication, positioning, navigation, and timing technology and architecture; Rf, microwave, and optical engineering; atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics; and cross-disciplinary technological innovation supporting space missions. Dr. Lin Yi has published over 60 journal articles, conference papers and several patents.
 

B.S. in EE(99-03), Ph.D. in Physics (03-09) with honors, both from Peking University. Postdoc at L’Observatoire de Paris, the French national metrology laboratory (09-11). Visiting scientist at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the German national metrology laboratory (11). NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at JPL/Caltech (11-13). Technologist at JPL/Caltech (13-now).

Dr. Yi is an IEEE Senior member, AIAA Senior member and INCOSE Regular member. He also volunteers in leadership positions in IEEE and INCOSE.  He serves as a reviewer for NASA, NSF, USRA, OSA, IEEE, AIP, IOP, Springer Nature.

• Communications, navigation and timing for deep space mission operation, earth and planetary radio science, geophysics and astrophysics.
• RF discharge light source, micro-plasma physics
• Terahertz molecular clock, optical/microwave atomic clock based on neutral atoms/ion(s), optical frequency comb, free space/fiber frequency signal distribution

• Communication and Navigation  | RF And Optical Communications
• Quantum Technologies  | Quantum Sensor Technologies, Devices, And Clocks
• Sensors, Microdevices and Instruments  | Integrated Photonics, Direct/Coherent Detectors, And Arrays
• Sensors, Microdevices and Instruments  | Distributed Aperture Systems

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