Bingen Yang is a Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he has taught for more than three decades. Being an active researcher and author, his current research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of flexible structures and complicated dynamic systems, electromechanical systems, and computational methods for problems in engineering applications. A fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. Yang received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.