Fan Yang got his Ph.D. in Mechanics from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2017, with a focus on the theoretical and simulation study of gas turbine systems. After a short period of post-doctoral research at Xi'an Jiaotong University, he joined Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2018, as an associate professor. In June 2023, he joined Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. His research interests includes AI in mechanical systems, reliability engineering, sustainability, computational mechanics, rigid-flexible coupled dynamics.