人物经历
1988年9月至1992年7月，天津大学自动化系学习，获工学学士学位；
1992年9月至1995年3月，天津大学自动化系学习，获工学硕士学位；
1995年 5月至1999年9月，清华大学学习，获工学博士学位；
1999年10月至2007 年9月，先后在英国里兹大学，兰卡斯特大学，和曼彻斯特大学任 Research Fellow 以及 博士研究生导师；
2007年9月聘为天津大学教授；
2012年被英国曼彻斯特大学聘为lecturer以及博士研究生导师。
2007年起成为IEEE高级会员。
学术兼职
IEEE 高级会员；
教育部海外专家；
多家国际期刊的审稿人：
Review of Scientific instruments, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, NDT & E International,
Measurement Science & Technology, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors & Actuators.
开发的电磁测控系统已被英国钢铁使用。
研究方向
最新电磁测量技术，智能仪器与仪表，电磁传感技术，计算机层析成像技术，复杂信号处理（包括财经和经济数据处理）。
Measurement and instrumentation based on electromagnetic induction； Tomographic imaging； Computational Electromagnetics； Smart meters。
主要贡献
历年来在国际重大会议及期刊杂志上发表140篇学术文章。
主导的研究项目：
- TSB project （Develop, embed and exploit advanced electromagnetic modelling capabilities in MT Safeline for improved metal detector design with improved sensitivity to discriminate contaminants, 2014-2016）Safeline sponsored industrial project （Towards high performance metal detector through system modelling and optimisation, 2014-2017）EPSRC project （Electromagnetic tensor imaging for in-process welding inspection, 2015-2018）.
主要著作
X.J. Hao, W. Yin, M. Strangwood, A.J. Peyton, P.F. Morris, C.L. Davis, Modelling and Measurement of Decarburisation of Steels Using a Multi-frequency Electromagnetic Sensor 86 u2013 89, Studies in Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, Volume 31, 2008, Electromagnetic Nondestructive Evaluation （XI） , Edited by Antonello Tamburrino, Yevgen Melikhov, Zhenmao Chen, Lalita Udpa, ISBN 978-1-58603-896-0, DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-896-0-86
代表论文
已发表国际期刊和国际会议论文100余篇。其中SCI收录30余篇，被引过 100 次。 最近论文有:
1. B. Dekdouk, W. Yin, C. Ktistis, D. Armitage, D. Holder and A. Peyton, "A Method to solve the Forward Problem in Magnetic Induction Tomography based on the Weakly Coupled Field Approximation" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL ENGINEERING,accepted, 2010.
2. W. Yin, A. J.Peyton, "Sensitivity Formulation including Velocity Effects for Electromagnetic Induction Systems", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, accepted, 2010.
3. W. Yin, A J Peyton, F Stefani and G Gerbeth,"Theoretical and numerical approaches to the forward problem and sensitivity calculation of a novel contactless inductive flow tomography （CIFT）", MEASUREMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 2009 Meas. Sci. Technol.
4. W. Yin, P. J. Withers, U. Sharma, and A. J.Peyton, "Non-Contact Characterisation of Carbon-Fibre-Reinforced Plastics （CFRP） Using Multi-frequency Eddy Current Sensors," IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, Volume 58, Issue 3, March 2009 Page（s）:738 u2013 743
5. W. Yin, X. J. Hao, A. J. Peyton, M. Strangwood, and C. Davis, "Measurement of Permeability and Ferrite/austenite Phase Fraction Using a Multi-frequency Electromagnetic Sensor," NDT & E International, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 64-68
6. W. Yin, A. J. Peyton, G. Zysko, and R. Denno, "Simultaneous non-contact measurement of water level and conductivity," IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, vol. 57, No 11, 2008, pp 2665- 2669.
7. W. Yin and A. J. Peyton, "Thickness Measurement of Metallic Plates with an Electromagnetic Sensor Using Phase Signature Analysis," IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, vol. 57, No 8, 2008, pp 1803-1807.
8. Hao XJ, Yin W, Strangwood M, et al., Off-line measurement of decarburization of steels using a multifrequency electromagnetic sensor, SCRIPTA MATERIALIA Vol. 58 No 11, pp 1033-1036, JUN 2008
9. Yin W, Binns R, Dickinson SJ, Claire Davis, and Anthony J. Peyton, Analysis of the Liftoff Effect of Phase Spectra for Eddy Current Sensors, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT, 56（6）:2775 u2013 2781, DECEMBER 2007
10. Yin W, Peyton AJ, Strangwood M, et al.Exploring the relationship between ferrite fraction and morphology and the electromagnetic properties of steel, JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE 42 （16）: 6854-6861, AUG 2007
11. Abdullah MZ, Yin W, Bilal M, et al. Time-domain reconstruction using sensitivity coefficients for limited view ultrawide band tomography, REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 78 （8）: Art. No. 084703 AUG 2007
12. Dickinson SJ, Binns R, Yin WL, et al. The development of a multifrequency electromagnetic instrument for monitoring the phase transformation of hot strip steel, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT 56 （3）: 879-886 JUN 2007
13. Yin W, Peyton AJ, Thickness measurement of non-magnetic plates using multi-frequency eddy current sensors, NDT & E INTERNATIONAL 40 （1）: 43-48 JAN 2007
14. Yin WL, Dickinson SJ, Peyton AJ, Evaluating the permeability distribution of a layered conductor by inductance spectroscopy
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS 42 （11）: 3645-3651 NOV 2006
15. Yin W, Peyton AJ, A planar EMT system for the detection of faults on thin metallic plates, MEASUREMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 17 （8）: 2130-2135 AUG 2006
16. Yin W, Dickinson SJ, Peyton AJ, A multi-frequency impedance analysing instrument for eddy current testing, MEASUREMENT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 17 （2）: 393-402 FEB 2006
17. Haldane RJ, Yin W, Strangwood M, et al. Multi-frequency electromagnetic sensor measurement of ferrite/austenite phase fraction - Experiment and theory, SCRIPTA MATERIALIA 54 （10）: 1761-1765 MAY 2006
18 Yin WL, Dickinson SJ, Peyton AJ, Imaging the continuous conductivity profile within layered metal structures using inductance spectroscopy, IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL 5 （2）: 161-166 APR 2005
19. Wang HX, Wang C, Yin WL, A pre-iteration method for the inverse problem in electrical impedance tomography, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT 53 （4）: 1093-1096 AUG 2004
20. Yin WL, Peyton AJ, Dickinson SJ, Simultaneous measurement of distance and thickness of a thin metal plate with an electromagnetic sensor using a simplified model, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT 53 （4）: 1335-1338 AUG 2004
科研项目
1. 国家自然科学基金国际重大合作 “高频激励低电导率物质的电磁层析成像关键技术研究”
2. 国家自然科学基金重点项目 “人体活性组织介电特性与表征方法研究”
3. 国家自然科学基金 “集成式电磁层析成像系统”
4. 国家自然科学基金 “老龄飞机大结构件腐蚀损伤无损检测技术研究”
5. 英国曼彻斯特大学合作项目 “新一代EMT技术”
6. 教育部海外留学人员基金