Prof. Yang is a professor at Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) since 2008. She is currently the vice director of CAS-Key laboratory of Synthetic Biology. She earned B.S. from Zhejiang University, China, in 1994, and Ph.D. in Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2001. From 2001 to 2008 she was a postdoctoral fellow in Keio University, Japan, and then in Burnham Institute for Medical Research, USA. She is the author of over 70 scientific articles published in prestigious journals including Nat. Chem. Biol. and Energ. Environ. Sci. Her publications have been cited over 2,000 times by experts in the field.