Yang Song, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor (School of Electrical Engineering & SWJTU-Leeds Joint School).
He is a recipient of the National High-Level Young Talent Program, the Sichuan Provincial "Tianfu Emei Program" for young talents, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Distinguished Expert of the Chengdu “Rongpiao Program,” and listed among the world’s top 2% scientists by Stanford University in both 2023 and 2024.
He has held positions as Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Researcher at the University of Huddersfield (UK), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Oslo Metropolitan University.

He has published over 80 papers in SCI/EI-indexed journals, including over 40 as the first or corresponding author in flagship SCI journals such as IEEE Transactions and Vehicle System Dynamics. Six of his papers have been selected as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers. His work has been cited more than 2,900 times, with an H-index of 30.

He has led three National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects (including the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas), a Key Joint Fund Project, and a General Project), one sub-project under the National Key R&D Program (China Railway Special Project), and two provincial/ministerial-level projects (including the Sichuan Provincial Natural Science Foundation and a research project from China State Railway Group).

He has also led six industry-funded projects supported by organizations such as China Railway Electrification Bureau Group Co., Ltd., China Academy of Railway Sciences Group Co., Ltd., the National Engineering Research Center for Rail Transit Electrification and Automation, the State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, and the Key Laboratory of Maglev Technology and Maglev Train of the Ministry of Education.
While overseas, he participated in research projects funded by Network Rail (UK), the Norwegian Railway Directorate, the UK Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), the EU Shift2Rail program, Hitachi Rail, and others.

He serves as an editorial board member for four key SCI journals:

• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (Impact Factor: 5.6, JCR Q1, CAS Q2 TOP);

• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Impact Factor: 6.8, JCR Q1, CAS Q2 TOP);

• Editorial Board Member of Protection and Control of Modern Power Systems (Impact Factor: 11.0, CAS Q1 TOP);

• Editorial Board Member in the field of Transportation Safety and Environment (Impact Factor: 2.7).

He is also a young editorial board member or session chair for various journals and conferences:

• Young Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering (Impact Factor: 4.2, CAS Q2);

• Young Editorial Board Member of several EI-indexed journals such as Journal of Engineering Science, Journal of Railway Science and Engineering, and Power System Protection and Control, as well as the international journal Complex Engineering Systems;

• Chair of the Subcommittee on Pantograph-Catenary Interaction of the Rail Transit Power Traction System, World Transport Convention;

• Committee member and chair of the traction power subforum at Railways 2022;

• Co-chair of sub-forums at the 5th and 6th International Conference on Electrical and Information Technologies for Rail Transportation (EITRT 2021);

• Consulting Editor for the themes of Infrastructures and Vehicles;

• Guest Editor for journals such as Sensors, Sustainability, Lubricants, and Shock and Vibration.

He received the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement in both 2023 and 2024, and the Outstanding Reviewer Award in both 2021 and 2022.
He was awarded the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Second Prize (ranked 5/15), the Second Prize of the Tibet Autonomous Region Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked 4/15), and the First Prize of the China Railway Society Science and Technology Award in 2024 (ranked 14/25).