• 2022/12 – now Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Special-term Professor
• 2021/05-2022/12 Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Project Researcher
• 2018/01-2021/05 Stanford University, Postdoctoral Fellow
• 2017/06-2017/12 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow
• 2013/09-2017/06 Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD
• 2009/09-2013/06 China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Bachelor

1. Microseismic Monitoring
2. Deep-learning-based Data Mining
3. Wave-equation-based seismic modeling and imaging

1. SEG/Chevron Scholarship 2016
2. SEG Foundation Scholarship 2015
3. SEG/WesternGeco/Carl Savit Memorial Scholarship 2015
4. Michael T. Spradley Memorial Scholarship 2014
5. National Scholarship 2016
6. National Scholarship 2015
7. National Scholarship 2014
8. Dean Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2017
9. Dean Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2016

1. United States Geological Survey (USGS) External Project (Co-Host) 2020 - 2021
   Earthquake Monitoring in an Urban Setting Through Deep-Learning-Based Noise Suppression and Back-Projection: Case Study for the Long Beach Dense Array.
2. Southern California Earthquake Center Project (Host) 2020 – 2021
   Geometric-Mean Back-Projection Method for Dense-Array Imaging of Seismic Sources.
3. Southern California Earthquake Center Project (Co-Host) 2019 - 2020
   Evaluation of Deep, Widespread Seismicity beneath Long Beach through Deep-Learning-based Noise Suppression and Reverse-Time Migration.

【Google Scholar】【ResearchGate】

1. Lei Yang, Xin Liu, Weiqiang Zhu, Liang Zhao, Gregory C. Beroza. 2022. Toward Improved Urban Earthquake Monitoring through Deep-Learning-Based Noise Suppression. Science Advances, 8, eabl3564.
2. Lei Yang, Xin Liu, Gregory C. Beroza. 2021. Revisiting Evidence for Widespread Seismicity in the Upper Mantle under Los Angeles. Science Advances, 7, eabf2862.
3. Xin Liu, Gregory C. Beroza*, Lei Yang*, William Ellsworth. 2021. Ambient noise Love wave attenuation tomography for the LASSIE array across Los Angeles basin. Science Advances, 7, eabe1030.
4. Lei Yang, Hongyong Yan, Hong Liu. 2017. Optimal staggered-grid finite-difference schemes based on the minimax approximation method with the Remez algorithm. Geophysics, 82(1), T27-T42.
5. Lei Yang, Hongyong Yan, Hong Liu. 2017. An optimal implicit staggered-grid finite-difference scheme based on the modified Taylor-series expansion with minimax approximation method for elastic modeling. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 138, 161-171.
6. Lei Yang, Hongyong Yan, Hong Liu. 2016. Optimal implicit staggered-grid finite-difference schemes based on the sampling approximation method for seismic modelling. Geophysical Prospecting, 64, 595-610.
7. Lei Yang, Hongyong Yan, Hong Liu. 2015. Optimal rotated staggered-grid finite-difference schemes for elastic wave modeling in TTI media. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 122, 40-52.
8. Lei Yang, Hongyong Yan, Hong Liu. 2014. Least squares staggered-grid finite-difference for elastic wave modelling. Exploration Geophysics, 45(4), 255-260.
9. Hongyong Yan, Lei Yang, Xiang-Yang Li. 2016. Optimal staggered-grid finite-difference schemes by combining Taylor-series expansion and sampling approximation for wave equation modeling. Journal of Computational Physics, 326, 913-930.
10. Hongyong Yan, Lei Yang, Hengchang Dai, Xiang-Yang Li. 2016. Implementation of elastic prestack reverse-time migration using an efficient finite-difference scheme. Acta Geophysica, 64(5), 1605-1625.
11. Hongyong Yan, Lei Yang, Xiang-Yang Li, Hong Liu. 2016. Acoustic VTI modeling using an optimal time-space domain finite-difference scheme. Journal of Computational Acoustics, 24, 1650016.
12. Hongyong Yan, Lei Yang. 2017. Seismic modeling with an optimal staggered-grid finite-difference scheme based on combining Taylor-series expansion and minimax approximation. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, 61(3), 560-574.
13. Hongyong Yan, Lei Yang, Hong Liu. 2015. Acoustic reverse-time migration using optimal staggered-grid finite-difference operator based on least squares. Acta Geophysica, 63(3), 715-734.