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Name: Dr Jiannan Yang

Title: Lecturer in Digital Engineering for Future Technologies

Email: jiannan.yang@york.ac.uk

Areas of Expertise: digital twin, dynamics and vibration, uncertainty and sensitivity, modelling
and simulation, railway noise and vibration, probabilistic engineering design

 

Jiannan Yang is a Lecturer in Digital Engineering at the School of Physics Engineering and
Technology (PET), University of York, UK. He obtained his first degree in Mechanical Engineering
and Automation from Donghua University, Shanghai, China. He received his PhD in Sound and
Vibration from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of
Southampton in 2012, funded by the Lord Rayleigh Scholarship. After PhD, he joined Hitachi,
first worked in Japan and then in the UK from 2014. Jiannan re-joined academia towards the end
of 2018 and worked with Prof Robin Langley at the Engineering Department, University of
Cambridge as a research associate until 2023, during which time he was affiliated with Trinity
College, Cambridge.
 Since 2023: School of Physics Engineering and Technology (PET), University of York
 2018 to 2023: Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
 2014 to 2018: European Research Laboratory, Hitachi, UK
 2012 to 2014: Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Japan