Dr. Han Yang is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in the School of Civil Engineering at Tianjin University. His research interests include theoretical, numerical, experimental, and practical aspects of earthquake engineering, hydraulic engineering, and geotechnical engineering. Dr. Yang was awarded the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas). He has been in charge of 3 national research projects and has participated in over a dozen of national and international projects.
2015/09-2019/09 University of California, Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Ph.D.
2011/09-2015/06 Tsinghua University Hydraulic Engineering B.S.
2023/05-Present Tianjin University Civil Engineering Professor
2022/07-2023/05 University of California, Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecturer
2021/09-2022/08 ETH Zurich IBK/IGT Visiting Scholar
2019/11-2023/05 University of California, Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering Postdoc
Seismic performance and failure mechanism of hydraulic structure
Seismic resilience analysis and safety control of engineering structure
AI-reinforced simulation methods and experiment techniques in earthquake engineering
2023/07 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
2022/10 National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas)
2019/11 The Zuhair A. Munir Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation, Nomination
2019/03 Fugro West Fellowship in Recognition of Outstanding Academic Achievement
2015/07 National Outstanding Graduate in Hydraulic Engineering
2015/06 Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis
2014/09 Tsinghua University Scholarship for Research and Innovation Excellence
[1] Boris Jeremic, Zhaohui Yang, Zhao Cheng, Guanzhou Jie, Nima Tafazzoli, Matthias Preisig, Panagiota Tasiopoulou, Federico Pisano, Jose Abell, Kohei Watanabe, Yuan Feng, Sumeet Kumar Sinha, Fatemah Behbehani, Han Yang, and Hexiang Wang. Nonlinear Finite Elements: Modeling and Simulation of Earthquakes, Soils, Structures and their Interaction. University of California, Davis, CA, USA; and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, 1989-2023. ISBN: 978-0-692-19875-9.
[1] Han Yang, Junyu Zhai, Yuyan Chen, Boris Jeremic. Quantitative analysis of seismic energy balance and dissipation in soil structure interaction systems. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 2025. (In Review)
[2] Qinghua Han, Xinmiao Zhang, Yuyan Chen, Han Yang, Boris Jeremic. Seismic wave field reconstruction using recorded data from near-surface and in-structure seismic sensors. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. 2025. (In Review).
[3] Ruixin Zhang, Duojun Wang, Jian Zhang, Kenan Han, Kewei Shen, Peng Chen, Chuangjiang Liu, Panming Xue, Han Yang. Serpentinization in subduction slab constrained by thermophysical properties of serpentine and its implications for intermediate-depth earthquakes. Geophysical Research Letters. 2025. (In Review)
[4] Ruixin Zhang, Duojun Wang, Jian Zhang, Kenan Han, Kewei Shen, Peng Chen, Chuangjiang Liu, Panming Xue, Han Yang. The thermophysical properties of lherzolite and its implications for the thermal structure of the lithosphere. Lithos. 2025. (In Review)
[5] Han Yang, Hexiang Wang, Boris Jeremic. Numerical modeling and validation of earthquake soil structure interaction: a 12-story building in Ventura, California. Frontiers in Built Environment. 2024, 9: 1249550.
[6] Hexiang Wang, Fangbo Wang, Han Yang, Katarzyna Staszewska, Boris Jeremic. Sobol’ sensitivity analysis of a 1D stochastic elasto-plastic seismic wave propagation. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 2025, 191: 109283.
[7] Lei Bao, Min He, Tianhao Ye, Mengyan Tan, Ruijie Wang, Han Yang. CT imaging‐enhanced numerical simulation of microscopic structure and resilient safety of asphalt concrete. Earthquake Engineering & Resilience, 2024, 3(3): 447-474.
[8] Constantinos Kanellopoulos, Nikolaos Psycharis, Han Yang, Boris Jeremic, Ioannis Anastasopoulos, Bozidar Stojadinovic. Seismic Resonant Metamaterials for the protection of an elastic-plastic SDOF system against vertically propagating seismic shear waves (SH) in nonlinear soil. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 162 (2022): 107366.
[9] Han Yang, Hexiang Wang, Boris Jeremic. An Energy-Based Analysis Framework for Soil Structure Interaction Systems. Computers and Structures. 265 (2022): 106758.
[10] Hexiang Wang, Fangbo Wang, Han Yang, Yuan Feng, Boris Jeremic. Time Domain Intrusive Stochastic Seismic Risk Analysis using Ground Motion Prediction Equations of Fourier Amplitude Spectra. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 157 (2022): 107218.
[11] Fangbo Wang, Hexiang Wang, Han Yang, Yuan Feng, Boris Jeremic. A Modular Methodology for Time-domain Stochastic Seismic Wave Propagation. Computers and Geotechnics. 139 (2021): 104409.
[12] Hexiang Wang, Han Yang, Yuan Feng, Boris Jeremic. Modeling and Simulation of Earthquake Soil Structure Interaction Excited by Inclined Seismic Waves. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 146 (2021): 106720.
[13] Yuan Feng, Hexiang Wang, Han Yang, Fangbo Wang. Time-Continuous Energy-Conservation Neural Network for Structural Dynamics Analysis. Neurocomputing. 456 (2021): 450-460.
[14] Han Yang, Hexiang Wang, Yuan Feng, Boris Jeremic. Plastic energy dissipation in pressure-dependent materials. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 146.3 (2020): 04019139.
[15] Hexiang Wang, Fangbo Wang, Han Yang, Yuan Feng, Jeff Bayless, Norman A. Abrahamson, Boris Jeremic. Time Domain Intrusive Probabilistic Seismic Risk Analysis of Nonlinear Shear Frame Structure. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. 136 (2020): 106201.
[16] Yuan Feng, Kaveh Zamani, Han Yang, Hexiang Wang, Fangbo Wang, Boris Jeremic. Procedures to build trust in nonlinear elastoplastic integration algorithm: Solution and code verification. Engineering with Computers. 36 (2020): 1643-1656.
[17] Wen-Jie Xu, Guang-Yu Liu, Han Yang. Study on the mechanical behavior of sands using 3D discrete element method with realistic particle models. Acta Geotechnica. 15 (2020): 2813-2828.
[18] Wen-Jie Xu, Ze-Kang Feng, Han Yang, Guang-Yu Liu. Study on meso-mechanical behavior of sand based on its 2D geometrical model. Science China Technological Sciences. 63 (2020), 777-790.
[19] Han Yang, Yuan Feng, Hexiang Wang, Boris Jeremic. Energy dissipation analysis for inelastic reinforced concrete and steel beam-columns. Engineering Structures. 197 (2019): 109431.
[20] Han Yang, Yuan Feng, Hexiang Wang, Fangbo Wang, Boris Jeremic. Energy dissipation in solids due to material inelasticity, viscous coupling, and algorithmic damping. Journal of Engineering Mechanics. 145.9 (2019): 04019060.
[21] Han Yang, Sumeet Kumar Sinha, Yuan Feng, David B McCallen, Boris Jeremic. Energy dissipation analysis of elastic-plastic materials. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 331 (2018): 309-326.
[22] Han Yang, Wen-Jie Xu, Qi-Cheng Sun, Yuan Feng. Study on the meso-structure development in direct shear tests of a granular material. Powder Technology. 314 (2017): 129-139.
[23] Han Yang, Wenjie-Xu, Qi-Bin Zhang. Macro- and meso-mechanisms of strain localization in granular material (in Chinese). Chinese Journal of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, 2015,34(8):1692-1701.
