Jian Yao

Dr. Jian Yao serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Colorado State University (CSU) within the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is primarily a scientist at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), focusing on GNSS satellite orbits, clocks, and low-Earth-orbit satellite systems. Yao has prior experience at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Geodetic Survey (NGS).

Education: Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado Boulder (2014).

Research interests center on positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), including GNSS carrier-phase time transfer, optical-clock timescale algorithms, and satellite clock estimation. He contributes to the field as a guest editor for GPS Solutions' special issue on 'timekeeping in space.'

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