Guangya Yang completed his PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2008 before joining the Technical University of Denmark. From 2020 to 2021, he worked full-time as a specialist in electrical design and simulation of large offshore wind farms at Ørsted. He is a senior member of IEEE and previously served as an expert member of the European Technology & Innovation Platform for solar PV.

His expertise lies in the stability, control and protection of low-inertia power systems and electromagnetic transient simulation of power systems, particularly in offshore wind applications. His team has made early efforts to validate the value of synchronous condensers for low-inertia systems. He provides industry training programs on various topics related to offshore wind power systems, including control strategies, design principles, grid code compliance, system stability, protection, and electromagnetic transient simulation.

Dr. Yang is the convenor for IEC61400-21-5 titled "Wind Energy Generation Systems - Part 21-5: Configuration, Functional Specification, and Validation of Hardware-in-the-Loop Test Bench for Wind Power Plants." The working group focuses on developing technical specifications for industrial-level test benches based on control replicas and real-time simulation.

He has secured numerous research grants worth over €12 million. He coordinates the Innovative Training Network project InnoCyPES (innocypes.eu, 2021-2025), funded under the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska Curie Action program (grant no. 956433). In this role, he oversees training 15 early-stage researchers in the cyber-physical energy system field.

He is currently the lead editor for the IEEE Access PES section. He has also been an editorial board member for several journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (2015-2021), IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery (2018-2020), and the Journal of Modern Power System and Clean Energy (2017-).

Guangya Yang is recognised on the career-long impact list and single-year impact list (2022, 2023, 2024) of the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier/Stanford).