2007年9月—2011年2月，就讀於美國加州理工學院（California Institute of Technology）航空專業，導師為Dale I. Pullin教授，畢業並獲得博士學位，博士論文《Lagrangian and Vortex-Surface Fields in Turbulence》獲得流體力學傑出研究獎。
2011年3月—2013年7月，在普林斯頓大學（Princeton University）燃燒能源研究中心，康奈爾大學（Cornell University）機械與航天工程系擔任博士後研究員，主要合作者為Stephen B. Pope教授，Jacqueline H. Chen研究員。
根據2023年7月北京大學工學院網站數據，楊越先後在《流體力學雜誌（Journal of Fluid Mechanics）》《流體物理學（Physics of Fluids）》等學術期刊發表論文50多篇，發表會議論文10多篇，代表論文如下：
W. Tong, S. Wang, and Y. Yang*, Estimating forces from cross-sectional data in the wake of flows past a plate using theoretical and data-driven models, Physics of Fluids, 34, 111905, 2022
S. Zhang, Z. Lu, and Y. Yang*, Modeling the displacement speed in the flame surface density method for turbulent premixed flames at high pressures, Physics of Fluids, 33, 045118, 2021
W. Tong, Y. Yang*, and S. Wang, Characterizing three-dimensional features of vortex surfaces in the flow past a finite plate, Physics of Fluids, 32, 011903, 2020
Y. Yang*, Theory and applications of the vortex-surface field, Chinese Science Bulletin, 65, 483-495, 2020 (In Chinese)
S. Xiong and Y. Yang*, Identifying the tangle of vortex tubes in homogeneous isotropic turbulence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 874, 952-978, 2019
S. Xiong and Y. Yang*, Construction of knotted vortex tubes with the writhe-dependent helicity, Physics of Fluids, 31, 047101, 2019
Y. Yang*, J. You, and M. Sun, Modeling of turbulence-chemistry interactions in numerical simulations of supersonic turbulent combustion, Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica, 36, 261-273, 2015 (In Chinese)
Y. Yang*, S. B. Pope, and J. H. Chen, Empirical low-dimensional manifolds in composition space, Combustion and Flame, 160, 1967-1980, 2013
Y. Yang*, H. Wang, S. B. Pope, and J. H. Chen, Large-eddy simulation/PDF modeling of a non-premixed CO/H2 temporally evolving jet flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 34, 1241-1249, 2013
Y. Yang* and D. I. Pullin, Evolution of vortex-surface fields in viscous Taylor-Green and Kida-Pelz flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 685, 146-164, 2011
Y. Yang* and D. I. Pullin, Geometric study of Lagrangian and Eulerian structures in turbulent channel flow, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 674, 67-92, 2011
Y. Yang* and D. I. Pullin, On Lagrangian and vortex-surface fields in flows with Taylor-Green and Kida-Pelz initial conditions, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 661, 446-481, 2010
Y. Yang*, D. I. Pullin, and I. Bermejo-Moreno, Multi-scale geometric analysis of Lagrangian structures in isotropic turbulence, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 654, 230-277, 2010
Y. Yang, G.-W. He*, and L.-P. Wang, Effects of subgrid scale modeling on Lagrangian statistics in large-eddy simulation, Journal of Turbulence, 9, 8, 2008
