主要从事近岸环境水动力模拟研究。负责了国家自然科学基金、教育部博士点基金、英国Leverhulme Trust Visiting Fellow基金等10多项纵向基金研究。在Coastal Engineering、Ocean Engineering、Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering、Applied Ocean Research等期刊发表学术论文50余篇；获教育部自然科学奖一等奖(2010)等奖励。

部分代表性学术论文：

[1] Tang J.*, Zhao C.Y., Shen Y.M., 2019. Numerical investigation of the effects of coastal vegetation zone width on wave run-up attenuation. Ocean Engineering 189, 106395

[2] Tang J.*, Li Q.S., Meng X.Y., et al., 2018. Numerical modeling of coastal waves and nearshore currents on adaptive quadtree grids. Journal of Waterway Port Coastal and Ocean Engineering 144, 5: 04018011

[3] Yang Z.Y., Tang J.^*, Shen Y.M., 2018. Numerical study for vegetation effects on coastal wave propagation by using nonlinear Boussinesq model. Applied Ocean Research 70, 32–40. 

[4] Tang J.*, Shen Y.M., Causon D., et al., 2017. Numerical study of periodic long wave run-up on a rigid vegetation sloping beach. Coastal Engineering 121, 158-166.

[5] Tang J.*, Lyu Y.G., Shen Y.M., et al., 2017. Numerical study on influences of breakwater layout on coastal waves, wave induced currents, sediment transport and beach morphological evolution. Ocean Engineering 141, 375-387.

[6] Tang J.*, Shen S.D., Wang H., 2015. Numerical model for coastal wave propagation through mild slope zone in the presence of rigid vegetation. Coastal Engineering 97, 53-59.

[7] Tang J.*, Causon D., Mingham C., et al., 2013. Numerical study of vegetation damping effects on solitary wave run-up using the nonlinear shallow water equations. Coastal Engineering 75, 21-28.

[8] Tang J.*, Shen Y.M., Zheng Y.H., et al., 2004. An efficient computational model for solving the mild slope equation. Coastal Engineering 51, 2:143-154.