Dr Yang's research in waste management is mainly focused on re-using mining waste in construction materials to realize sustainable construction of civil engineering structures and infrastructure. He serves as committee members in a number of relevant conferences and organizations, such as, Chairman of UK-China Workshop on Novel Utilization of Mining Wastes in Construction Materials 2019, scientific committee member of REMINE International Conference on Reuse of Mining Waste into Innovative Geoploymeric-based Structural Panels, Precast, Ready Mixes and Insitu Applications and UK Program Committee member of ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute. He has 60+ publications and over £800k funding as PI or package leader. He holds visiting professorship at Dalian University of Technology, China.