1995年毕业于东北大学采矿工程专业获工学学士学位；1998年毕业于东北大学矿山岩体力学专业获工学硕士学位；2001年３月毕业于东北大学工程力学专业获工学博士学位；后留校从事教学科研工作，2010年晋升教授。2001年12—2002年2月应邀赴香港大学土木系进行合作研究；2005年8月—2006年7月赴澳大利亚柯廷理工大学进行访问交流和合作科研。教育部“新世纪优秀人才支持计划”（2009年度），辽宁省百千万人才计划（2009年度）人选。兼任国际岩石力学学会中国小组成员，辽宁省力学学会秘书长，“Rock Mechanics & Rock Engineering”编委。

直从事岩石力学与工程智能分析方法、灾害环境下岩石工程安全性方面的理论与工程应用研究。在岩石力学模型智能识别，岩体力学参数智能反分析，岩石工程长期稳定性正反馈综合集成智能分析等方面进行了创新性研究，目前正开展深部开挖高应力环境下岩体力学行为及岩石工程稳定性研究

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Geotechnical parameter identification of a no-tension elastic-plastic model using extented Kalman filter. Materials Research Innovations. 2011, 15(s1): s613-s616. (SCI检索) Cheng Xiang Yang, Yong Hong Wu, Tung Hon. A no-tension elastic-plastic model and optimized back-analysis technique for modeling nonlinear mechanical behavior of rock mass in tunneling. Tunneling and Underground Space Technology. 2010, 25(3): 279-289. (SCI检索) Xia-Ting Feng, Bingrui Chen, Chengxiang Yang, Hui zhou, Xiuli Ding. Identification of visco-elastic constitutive models of rock materials using coupling genetic programming with particle swarm optimization algorithm. Int J. Rock Mech. And Min. Sci. 2006, 43(5): 789~801(SCI检索) C. X. Yang, L. G. Tham, X. T. Feng, Y. J. Wang, and P. K. K. Lee. Two-Stepped Evolutionary Algorithm and Its Application to Stability Analysis of Slopes. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 2004. 18(2): 145~153. (SCI检索) Yang Chengxiang, Feng Xiating. Evolutionary Identification of Deformation Dynamics of Geotechnical Structures. Key Engineering Materials, 2004, 274-276: 949~954. (SCI检索) Feng Xiating, Yang Chengxiang. Coupling recognition of the structure and parameters of nonlinear constitutive material models using hybrid evolutionary algorithms. Int J. for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 2004; 59:1227~1250. (SCI检索) Feng Xia-Ting, Li Shaojun, Liao Hongjian, Yang Chengxiang. Identification of nonlinear rock-like material constitutive models using genetic algorithm. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2002, 26(8): 815~830. (SCI检索) Feng Xiating, Yang Chengxiang. Genetic evolution of nonlinear material constitutive models. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 2001.190(45): 5957~5973(SCI检索) Dongfang Chen, Xiating Feng, Chengxiang Yang. Neural network estimation of rockburst damage severity based on engineering cases . 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Modeling of Nonlinear Deformation Considering Temperature and Hydrostatic pressure Using Genetic-Neural Networks. 2009 WASE International Conference on Information Engineering, 10-11 July, 2009, Taiyuan, China(EI检索) Bing-Rui Chen, Xia-Ting Feng, Cheng-Xiang Yang. A Self-adapting Algorithm for Identifying Rheology Model and Its Parameters of Rock Mass, 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing, 6-7, June, 2009, Wuhan, China(EI检索) YANG Chengxiang, FENG Xiating and CHEN Bingrui. Modeling creep behavior of soft rock using an evolutionary neural computing method. International Conference on Heterogeneous Material Mechanics (ICHMM2008), Huangshan, CHINA. 2008, 456-459. (EI检索) ZHU Yifei, YANG Chengxiang, CHEN Bingrui, FENG Xiating. Evolutionary identification of rheological behavior of claystone. International Conference on Heterogeneous Material Mechanics (ICHMM2008), Huangshan, CHINA. 2008, 1397(EI检索) Cheng-Xiang Yang and Yi-Fei Zhu. Time Series Analysis Using GA Optimized Neural Networks. In: the 3rd International Conference on Natural Computation Vol. 4, IEEE Computer Society, 2007, 270-274(EI检索) YANG Chengxiang, FENG Xiating. Prediction of mining-induced ground subsidence using support vector regression. In: Progress in Mining Science and Safety Technology Part A, Science Press, 2007, 242-247 Cheng-Xiang Yang and Xia-Ting Feng. Prediction of Mining-induced Seismic Events Using an Evolutionary-neural Computing Approach. In: Progress in Intelligent Computation and Application, China University of Geosciences Press, 2007, 632-636 Xia-Ting Feng, Bing-rui Chen, Chengxiang Yang，Hui Zhou. Intelligent analysis of rheological characteristic of rock materials. Multiphysics coupling and long term behaviour in rock mechanics, Liège, Belgium, 2006, 5, 275-280(EI检索) C. X. Yang, Y. H. Wu, T. Hon, D. M. Chen. Optimized back-analysis technique for determination of boundary stress conditions in deep tunneling. 4th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium, Singapore, 2006, 148 Yang Cheng-xiang, Feng Xia-ting, Chen Bin-rui. Prediction of Mining Induced Land Subsidence Using Support Vector Machines. SISOLS2005, 799~806, 2005 Yang Chengxiang, Feng Xiating. Estimation of structural response to mining-induced blast vibration using support vector machines. Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry, Dessureault, Ganguli, Kecojevic & Dwyer (eds), A.A. Balkema Publishers, Taylor & Francis Group, London, , 2005, 587-594 Yang Chengxiang, Feng Xiating. Assessment of blast vibration response of structures around the stope using evolutionary-neural approach. In: Progress in Safety Science and Technology V: Part A, ISSST’2004, Shanghai, 2004, 797~802(EI检索) Feng Xiating, Yang Chengxiang, Ma Pingbo. Discovering rock mechanical knowledge using auto-extracting methods. 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