Dr. Max Yang is the controller lead in the Thermal Energy Conversion branch at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) where he leads the research and development of flight controllers for dynamic power conversion machines for space applications. More specifically, he main role includes 1) studying effects of control circuit elements on the stability of the free-piston Stirling power generators and electrical properties of the generators and 2) leading the development of the flight controllers for the free-piston Stirling power generators for space applications including, but not limited to, flyby and planetary missions for NASA. At NASA, he wrote two Early Career Initiative (ECI) proposals as the principle investigator (PI) and many conference papers, and received a Test Team award, On-The-Spot Group award, and a Best Branch Paper award. Before joining NASA in 2018, he was a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan (U of M), Ann Arbor, where he primarily worked on analyzing the effects of temperature and mechanical stress on the performance of Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) accelerometers and gyroscopes and their impact on position error in an inertial navigation system (INS), and developing a new oven-controlled temperature and stress isolation packaging technology for MEMS inertial sensors to improve the sensor performance in harsh environment by reducing temperature- and stress-induced zero-rate outputs (ZRO), scale factor (SF) errors, aging, and hysteresis through experiments and simulations. During his time at U of M, he wrote one journal paper and multiple conference papers (one of which was nominated for the best paper award), and received an AMD/Michigan student design competition award and an NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellowship offer. He received a B.S. Summa Cum Laude with honors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2012, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2014 and 2019, respectively.