Dr Yang Kuang is a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Central South University. He worked as a Postdoc Associate Research Fellow (2014-2017), Research Fellow (2017-2019) and Senior Research Fellow (2019-2022) at the University of Exeter, UK, following his PhD study at University of Dundee (2010-2014). Before joining Central South University, he briefly worked as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Dundee (2022.8-2023.3).

His current research interests are in the area of self-powered monitoring of industrial assets and civil infrastructure (particularly railway infrastructure). His research in the past nine years has been solely focused on the development of high-performance energy harvesting devices and their integration with low-power wireless sensing for self-powered monitoring systems. His core expertise lies in the design, modelling and characterisation of smart devices to convert ambient vibration/magnetic energy to usable electricity. He was the Researcher-co investigator/investigator of 5 UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grants. He has authored more than 30 journal articles with more than 1000 citations.