Yang Song, Professor, PhD Supervisor (Leeds College & School of Electrical Engineering). Selected for the National High-Level Young Talent Program, the Sichuan Province "Tianfu Emei Plan" Youth Program, IEEE Senior Member, and Chengdu "Rongpiao Plan" Distinguished Expert. He has held positions as a Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Researcher at the University of Huddersfield, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and Oslo Metropolitan University. He has published more than 100 papers in SCI/EI journals, with over 50 academic papers as the first/corresponding author in major industry journals such as IEEE Trans., Mech. Syst. Signal Process., Veh. Syst. Dyn.; 6 papers selected as ESI 1% Highly Cited Papers. His total citations exceed 3,200, with an H-index of 30, and he is listed among the global top 2% scientists for lifetime impact.
He is the principal investigator of three National Natural Science Foundation projects (Overseas Excellent Young Scholar, Joint Fund Key Project, General Project), one sub-project of the National Key R&D Program CZ Railway Special Topic, and three provincial and ministerial scientific research projects (Sichuan Province Natural Science Foundation, Sichuan Province International Exchange Cooperation Project, China Railway Group Scientific Research Project). He has led multiple funded research projects from organizations such as the China Railway Electrification Bureau Group, China Academy of Railway Sciences, National Engineering Research Center for Railway Electrification and Automation, National Key Laboratory of Traction Power, and the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Maglev Technology and Maglev Train. While abroad, he participated in research projects funded by organizations such as Network Rail (UK), Norwegian Railway Directorate, RSSB (UK), EU Shift2Rail, Norwegian Railway Directorate, and Hitachi Rail.
He serves on the editorial boards of four major industry SCI journals: IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. (IF: 5.6, JCR Q1, CAS Q2 TOP), as Associate Editor-in-Chief; IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol. (IF: 6.8, JCR Q1, CAS Q2 TOP), as Associate Editor; Prot. Control Mod. Power Syst. (IF: 11.0, CAS Q1 TOP), as Editorial Board Member; and Transportation Safety and Environment (IF: 2.7), as Editorial Board Member. He also serves as a Youth Editorial Board Member for several SCI/EI journals and as a Session Chair for major academic conferences, such as China. J. Mech. Eng. (IF: 4.2, CAS Q2) and journals like Complex Eng. Syst., J. Rail Sci. Eng., and Power Syst. Prot. Control. He is the Chair of the Pantograph-Catenary Subcommittee for the World Transport Convention and the Railways Conference (2022, 2024, 2026), and a Co-Chair of the International Academic Conference on Electrical and Information Technology in Rail Transport (EITRT2021). He also serves as Consulting Editor for Infrastructures and Vehicles, and as Guest Editor for Sensors, Sustainability, Lubricants, and Shock. Vib.
He has been awarded the IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. Outstanding Associate Editor twice (2023-2024), ranked in the top 2% of global scientists for three consecutive years (2023-2025), and selected for the top 2% of global scientists' lifetime impact list in 2025. He has also received multiple prestigious awards, including the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award (2nd Class) in 2022 (Ranked 5/15), the Science and Technology Progress Award of Tibet Autonomous Region (2nd Class) in 2022 (Ranked 4/15), and the Science and Technology Award of the China Railway Society (1st Class) in 2024 (Ranked 14/25).