From 2018 to 2020, Zhang Yang mainly participated in the formulation of an international standard: IEEE Std-P1451.9. He is an important member of the project team. In addition, he was the deputy secretary-general of the Tsingtao Laboratory Experts Association of the Wind Power Committee of the China Electric Power Equipment Management Association. During this period, his main research focused on the use of aeroacoustics noise to monitor the health conditions of WTs blades and design signal processing algorithms. The purpose of these work is to achieve the goal of "Unattended, smart operation and maintenance".

In addition, Zhang Yang has also been engaged in sensor design for 4 years, mainly designing smart sensors: including high-precision temperature measurement, integrated multi-parameter sensors, etc., he is good at PCB, EMI and other hardware design, and the main software algorithms including Kalman filter, wavelet transform, HHT, etc.

Zhang Yang has published 5 academic papers on fault/damage detection and smart sensor design, applied for 5 invention patents, and won 1 item National scholarship. He is currently funded by the Scholarship Council of the People's Republic of China to pursue a doctorate degree.