Vigor Yang is professor of aerospace engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, where he served as chair of the School of Aerospace Engineering from 2009 to 2018. A member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, he was the editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power (2001–2009) and the JANNAF Journal of Propulsion and Energetics (2009–2012). He is currently a co-general editor of the Aerospace Book Series of the Cambridge University Press (2010–present).