Dr.Yang is a leader of GIS and computing on geospatial cyberinfrstructure, spatial cloud computing, spatiotemporal computing, and spatial computing. He is PI on over $10M research grants and participated in over $40M projects. Several of his >200 publications have been among the top five cited and read papers of IJDE and CEUS. His PNAS spatial computing definition paper is captured by Nobel Intent Blog in 2011. He placed 25+ professors in the U.S. and China, and served in 10+ leader positions.