Xiaolei Yang is a full professor at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He started his research on wind turbine wakes in 2010 and has experience investigating the dynamics of wind turbine wakes, developing high-fidelity computational methods for wind turbine wakes, and constructing engineering models for fast predictions of wind turbine wakes. Prof. Yang has published 70 journal papers and 11 refereed conference papers, with over 2,600 citations. He obtained his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010) and subsequently worked as a Research Associate at Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, and Senior Research Scientist and Research Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, before joining the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019. He currently serves as Executive Associate Editor-in-Chief for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters and editorial board member for Energies and Wind.