主要从事火成岩石学与大地构造研究，研究方向包括火成岩成因与岩浆系统演化、中亚造山带增生造山过程、祁连造山带深部动力学演化等。

国家自然科学基金面上项目：境外天山南缘吉萨尔构造带构造演化，主持

国家自然科学基金青年科学基金：中祁连乌金峡含榴复式岩体的成因及其地质意义，主持

中国博士后科学基金面上资助：中祁连东段早古生代闪长岩类的成因及其地球动力学意义，主持

中国科学院“西部青年学者”项目：塔吉克斯坦西部古生代岩浆岩的成因及其对成矿作用的制约研究，主持

新疆维吾尔自治区重点实验室开放课题：东天山东段稀有金属成矿的岩石学标志研究，主持

中国科学院青年创新促进会：2021年青促会会员项目，主持

截止2025年，共发表SCI论文55篇，代表性论著如下：

1. Yang He, Xiao Wenjiao, Mao Qigui, An Shaole, Bai Yong, Sang Miao, Cai Hongming, Li Heng. Two episodes of extension induced by slab rollback and root foundering in the Eastern Tianshan, southwestern Altaids: Insights from granites and intermediate dykes. Lithos, 2024, 476-477: 107616.

2. Yang He, Luo Biji, Zhang Hongfei, Xiao Wenjiao, Tao Lu, Gao Zhong, Zhang Liqi, Chen Xi. Generation of multiple low-K granitic magmas in the eastern Qilian orogen, NE Tibetan Plateau: implications for granite genesis and pluton construction. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 2024, 113(4): 1005-1027.

3. Yang He, Xiao Wenjiao, Sang Miao, Mamadjanov Yunus, Zhang Hongfei, Zhang Zhixin, Wang Jinlin, Yogibekov Dzhovid, Gao Zhong, Luo Biji, Zhou Kefa, Khalimov Gufron, Chen Xi. Age and Petrogenesis of the Gabbros from Tajik South Tianshan: Implications for Early Paleozoic Geodynamic Evolution of the Southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Lithosphere, 2020, 2020(1): 7866431.

4. Yang He, Zhang Hongfei, Xiao Wenjiao, Tao Lu, Gao Zhong, Luo Biji, Zhang Liqi. Multiple Early Paleozoic granitoids from the southeastern Qilian orogen, NW China: Magma responses to slab roll-back and break-off. Lithos, 2021, 380-381: 105910.

5. Yang He, Zhang Hongfei, Xiao Wenjiao, Luo Biji, Gao Zhong, Tao Lu, Zhang Liqi, Guo Liang. Petrogenesis of Early Paleozoic high Sr/Y intrusive rocks from the North Qilian orogen: Implication for diachronous continental collision. Lithosphere, 2020, 12(1): 53-73.

6. Yang He, Zhang Hongfei, Luo Biji, Gao Zhong, Tao Lu. Petrogenesis of Early Paleozoic diorites and mafic–intermediate dykes from the eastern Qilian orogen, NE Tibetan Plateau: implication for lithospheric processes. Journal of the Geological Society, 2018, 175(3): 525-542.

7. Yang He, Zhang Hongfei, Luo Biji, Gao Zhong, Guo Liang, Xu Wangchun. Generation of peraluminous granitic magma in a post-collisional setting: A case study from the eastern Qilian orogen, NE Tibetan Plateau. Gondwana Research, 2016, 36: 28-45.

8. Yang He, Zhang Hongfei, Luo Biji, Zhang Jie, Xiong Ziliang, Guo Liang, Pan Fabin. Early Paleozoic intrusive rocks from the eastern Qilian orogen, NE Tibetan Plateau: Petrogenesis and tectonic significance. Lithos, 2015, 224-225: 13-31.