2008年11月，加拿大多伦多大学(University of Toronto)，地质系，沉积盆地分析，博士
1996年7月，中国石油勘探开发科学研究院，研究生部，沉积地质学，硕士
1993年7月，大庆石油学院，勘探系，矿场勘查地球物理，学士
2011年1月－现今，中国科学技术大学，地球和空间科学学院，教授
2008年12月－2010年12月，爱尔兰都柏林大学(University College Dublin)，地质学院，博士后
1996年7月-2003年8月，中国石油勘探开发科学研究院地质所，石油工程师
Guo., Z.-X., Shi, Y.-P., Yang, Y.-T.*, Jiang, S.-Q., Li, L.-B., Zhao, Z.-G., 2018. Inversion of the Erlian Basin (NE China) in the early Late Cretaceous: Implications for the collision of the Okhotomorsk Block with East Asia. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 154, 49-66.
Guo, Z.-X., Zhao, X.-Z., Yang, Y.-T. *, Zhang, R.-F., Han, C.-Y., Shi, Y.-P., Jiang, S.-Q., Tao, M.-H., 2018. Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Erlian Basin, Northeast China: Records of polyphase intracontinental deformation in Northeast Asia. Marine and Petroleum Geology 96, 405-428.
Guo, Z.-X., Yang, Y.-T. *, Zyabrev, S., Hou, Z.-H., 2017. Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Mohe-Upper Amur Basin reflects the final closure of the Mongol-Okhotsk Ocean in the latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 145, 494-511.
Yang, Y.-T., Guo, Z.-X., Luo, Y.-J., 2017. Middle-Late Jurassic tectonostratigraphic evolution of Central Asia, implications for the collision of the Karakoram-Lhasa Block with Asia. Earth-Sci Rev 166, 83-110.
Yang, Y.T., Guo, Z.X., Song, C.C., Li, X.B., He, S., 2015, A short-lived but significant Mongol-Okhotsk collision orogeny in latest Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous: Gondwana Research 28, 1096-1116.
Yang, Y.T., Song, C.C., He, S., 2015, Jurassic tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Junggar basin, NW China: A record of Mesozoic intraplate deformation in Central Asia: Tectonics 34, 86-115,
Yang, Y.T., 2013, An unrecognized major collision of the Okhotomorsk Block with East Asia during the Late Cretaceous, constraints on the plate reorganization of the Northwest Pacific: Earth-Science Reviews 126, 96-115.
Yang, Y., 2012, Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the northern Porcupine Basin, Irish Atlantic margin, during the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, implication for a regional compressional event: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 36, p. 140-153.
Yang, Y., 2011, Tectonically-driven underfilled-overfilled cycle, the middle Cretaceous in northern Cordilleran foreland basin: Sedimentary Geology, v. 233, 15-27.
Yang, Y., and A. Miall, 2010, Migration and stratigraphic fill of an underfilled foreland basin: Middle-Late Cenomanian Belle Fourche Formation in southern Alberta, Canada: Sedimentary Geology, v. 227, p. 51-64.
Yang, Y., and A. Miall, 2009, Evolution of the northern Cordilleran foreland basin during the mid-Cretaceous: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.121, p. 483-501.
Yang, Y., and A. Miall, 2008, Marine transgressions in the mid-Cretaceous of the Cordilleran foreland basin re-interpreted as orogenic unloading deposits: Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v.56, 179-198.
Yang, Y., W. Li, and L. Ma, 2005, Tectonic and stratigraphic controls of hydrocarbon systems in the Ordos basin: A multicycle cratonic basin in central China: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 89, p. 255-270.
Yang, Y., and T. Xu, 2004, Hydrocarbon habitat of the offshore Bohai Basin, China: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 21, p. 691-708.
Yang, Y., B. Zhang, C. Zhao, and T. Xu, 2004, Mesozoic Source Rocks and Petroleum Systems of the northeast Qaidam Basin, NW China: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 88, p. 115-125.
Yang, Y., B. Ritts, C. Zou, T. Xu, B. Zhang, and P. Xi, 2003, Upper Triassic-Middle Jurassic stratigraphy and sedimentology in the NE Qaidam Basin, NW China: petroleum geological relevance of new outcrop and subsurface data: Journal of Petroleum Geology, v. 26, p. 429-450.