Year	Place	Degree
1987	Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China (上海交通大学)	PhD Degree in Systems Engineering
1984	North Western Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China (西北工业大学)	MEng Degree in System Control
1981	North Western Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China (西北工业大学)	BEng Degree in System Control

Experience

Period	Place	Appointment
2004 - now	Manchester Business School (MBS) of The University of Manchester (曼彻斯特大学)	Professor, Chair of Decision and System Sciences
1998 - 2004	Manchester School of Management (MSM) of UMIST, UK (曼彻斯特理工大学)	Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (2000) and Professor, Chair (2003) of Decision and System Sciences
1995 - 1997	School of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Birmingham, UK (伯明翰大学)	Lecturer in Operational Research
1991 - 1995	Engineering Design Centre of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (纽卡素大学)	Research Associate (RA1A) and Senior Research Associate (RA II, 1993) in Decision Support
1989 - 1990	Computation Department of UMIST, UK (曼彻斯特理工大学)	British Council Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Systems Engineering
1987 - 1989	Automation Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, PR China (上海交通大学)	Lecturer and Associate Professor (1988) in Systems Engineering

Teaching specialisms

Professor Yang teaches at all undergraduate and MSc/MBA levels as follows:

First Year - Quantitative Methods for Business and Management (lecturer)
Second Year - Decision Modelling for Resource Management (lecturer)
Third Year - Decision Analysis for Business and Management (module coordinator and lecturer)
MSc in Analytics - Risk, Performance and Decision Analysis (module coordinator and lecturer)
MSc in Chinese Business Study - Performance Assessment and Decision Support (lecturer)
MBA Elective - Risk Management (lecturer)
MBA Elective - Multiple Criteria Performance Assessment (lecturer)
Part Time Executive MBA - Statistics and Decision Analysis for Management (lecturer)
Executive Education - Making Informed Decision under Uncertainty (lecturer)

Professor Yang has supervised 16 PhD/DBA, 3 MPhil research student projects, over 50 MSc student dissertation projects and over 20 visiting scholars in the recent years.

Administration duties

Professor Yang has been given the following responsibilities at the MSM and MBS in the recent years:

Associated Head for Research of the Management Sciences and Marketing Division (2015 – 2018)
Head of the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Academic Group (2011 – 2015)
Director of the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research Centre (2010 – present)
Strategy Division Representative of the MBS Post-Graduate Research Programme (2010 – present)
Convenor of the Decision Sciences Academic Unit (2007 – 2010)
Business System Division Head of the MBS Post-Graduate Research Programme (2007 – 2010)
Director of the Decision Sciences Research Centre (2003 – 2010)
Head of the Decision Sciences and Operations Management Group (2004)
Head of the Operations Management Group (2003 – 2004)
Director of the MSM BSc Management Programme (1999 – 2003)
Editor of the MSM Working Paper Series (1998 – 2002)
Project Coordinator of the MSc Operations Management Programme (1998 – 2002)