Yang works in, engineering practice and translational Medicine, with varied interests ranging from cancer homeostasis, computational drug development, high throughput biology, database maintenance and microfluidomics applied to microarray proteomics. He is an honorary Editor for International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, together with partial appointments in Nature and Science, where he does regular revisions and comments. He has also been an Editor of more than a dozen journals and proceedings books such as International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (World Scientific), The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer Science), Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Workshops and Proceedings of International Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Genetic and Evolutionary Methods, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and Scientific Computing, Biomedical Imaging Journal, Biophysical informatics Journal, and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Germany in bioinformatics. He was the General Chair of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School and Co-PI of several grants form the National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institute of Health. He is also a consultant to IJCBS, MIR labs, and the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Dr. Yang has delivered many invited talks including a number of keynote lectures to promote the emerging fields of functional informatics and personalized Medicine and Applied binding-omics. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, especially in BMC Genetics, one of the most prestigious journals after Science and Nature. He specializes in cancer biology and artificial intelligence. His outstanding achievements together with strong dedication to science and collaborative attitude have been mentioned as an Example for young Scientists in the New York Times issue of December 2010. He is a permanent candidate to the Milenium Technology Prize.
