教育经历：
2010/09-2015/01 中国科学院大气物理研究所 气象学 硕博连读 博士学位
2006/09-2010/06 南京信息工程大学 大气科学 学士学位
学术兼职：
2018/11-2019/11 国家超级计算无锡中心特聘研究员
荣誉奖励：
2013  中国科学院大学博士生国家奖学金
2014  中国科学院大学博士生国家奖学金
2014  第一届中国大地测量和地球物理学学术大会优秀研究生论
2014  中国科学院院长奖
2015  中国科学院大气物理研究所优秀博士论文
2015  中国气象科学研究院高层次人才
2016  中国气象局青年英才

代表性论文论著：
1.    Zhang, Y., J. Li, R. Yu, S. Zhang, Z. Liu, J. Huang, and Y. Zhou, 2019: A Layer-Averaged Nonhydrostatic Dynamical Framework on an Unstructured Mesh for Global and Regional Atmospheric Modeling: Model Description, Baseline Evaluation, and Sensitivity Exploration. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 1685-1714.
2.    Zhang, Y., H. Chen, and D. Wang, 2019: Robust Nocturnal and Early Morning Summer Rainfall Peaks over Continental East Asia in a Global Multiscale Modeling Framework. Atmosphere, 10.
3.    Yu, R., Y. Zhang, J. Wang, J. Li, H. Chen, J. Gong, and J. Chen, 2019: Recent Progress in Numerical Atmospheric Modeling in China. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 36, 938-960.
4.    Zhou, Y., Y. Zhang*, X. Rong, J. Li, and R. Yu, 2019: Performance of CAMS-CSM in Simulating Shortwave Cloud Radiative Effect over Global Stratus Cloud Regions: Baseline Evaluation and Sensitivity Test. Journal of Meteorological Research, doi: 10.1007/s13351-019-8206-y.
5.    Wang L.,Yi ZHANG*, Jian LI, et al., Understanding the Performance of an Unstructured-Mesh Global Shallow Water Model on Kinetic Energy Spectra and Nonlinear Vorticity Dynamics. J. Meteor. Res., doi: 10.1007/s13351-019-9004-2.
6.    Zhang, Y., 2018: Extending High-Order Flux Operators on Spherical Icosahedral Grids and Their Applications in the Framework of a Shallow Water Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 10, 145-164.
7.    Zhang, Y., R. Yu, and J. Li, 2017: Implementation of a conservative two-step shape-preserving advection scheme on a spherical icosahedral hexagonal geodesic grid. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 34, 411-427.
8.    Zhang, Y., and H. Chen, 2016: Comparing CAM5 and Superparameterized CAM5 Simulations of Summer Precipitation Characteristics over Continental East Asia: Mean State, Frequency–Intensity Relationship, Diurnal Cycle, and Influencing Factors. Journal of Climate, 1067-1089.
9.    Zhang, Y., and J. Li, 2016: Impact of moisture divergence on systematic errors in precipitation around the Tibetan Plateau in a general circulation model. Climate Dynamics, 47, 2923-2934.
10.    Zhang, Y., H. Chen, and R. Yu, 2015: Simulations of Stratus Clouds over Eastern China in CAM5: Sources of Errors. Journal of Climate, 28, 36-55.
11.    Zhang, Y., H. Chen, and R. Yu, 2014: Vertical Structures and Physical Properties of the Cold-Season Stratus Clouds Downstream of the Tibetan Plateau: Differences between Daytime and Nighttime. Journal of Climate, 27, 6857-6876.
12.    Zhang, Y., H. Chen, and R. Yu, 2014: Simulations of Stratus Clouds over Eastern China in CAM5: Sensitivity to Horizontal Resolution. Journal of Climate, 27, 7033-7052.
13.    Zhang, Y., R. Yu, J. Li, W. Yuan, and M. Zhang, 2013: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Relations of Distinctive Stratus Clouds on the Lee Side of the Tibetan Plateau in the Cold Season. Journal of Climate, 26, 8378-8391.
14.    Zhang, Y., and J. Li, 2013: Shortwave cloud radiative forcing on major stratus cloud regions in AMIP-type simulations of CMIP3 and CMIP5 models. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 30(3), 884–907.
15.    Zhang, Y., R. Yu, J. Li, and H. Chen, 2013: An implementation of a leaping-point Two-step Shape-Preserving Advection Scheme in the high-resolution spherical latitude-longitude grid. Acta Meteorologica Sinica  (in Chinese with English Abstract), 71(6), 1089-1102.

承担的科研项目：
1.    201801-202112，基于非结构网格的天气-气候一体化模式动力框架研发，国家重点研发计划，442万
2.    201901-202212，全球准均匀网格数值模式中两类传输问题及其计算策略研究，国家自然科学面上基金，62万
3.    201601-201812，基于高分辨率云解析模式结果评估改进气候模式对云雨过程的模拟，国家自然科学青年基金，21万
4.    201607-202106，基于高分辨率气候系统模式的无缝隙气候预测系统研制与评估，国家重点研发计划，70万

5.    201505-201712，气候模式中云雨过程的评估和改进，中国气象科学研究院一般项目，30万

人才培养：
目前指导在读博士研究生1名，气科院多尺度模式动力框架团队成员2名。