Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Author IDs
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8209-2898
Scopus Author ID: 57002156200
ResearcherID: S-7081-2018
Google Scholar Profile: EMG6cL0AAAAJ
Impact
Biography
I am an Associate Professor with the Department of Data Science at City University of Hong Kong. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in Feb. 2019. Before that, I obtained my M.E. from University of Science and Technology of China in 2013, and my B.E. from Hefei University of Technology in 2010, both in Computer Science.
Prizes/Honours
2025 SDM 2025 Best Applied Data Science Paper Award Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2022 Silver Award Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
2019 Governor General's Gold Medal The Governor General of Canada
Position(s) Available
I am looking for highly motivated PhD students and Postdoc fellows. Please send me your CV and transcripts if you are interested. Due to the high volume of emails, I may not be able to reply to each of them. However, I do read every applicant's email. Please do not be offended if I do not reply.
Research Interests/Areas
- Mining data of combinatorial structures, such as graphs, sets, and sequences
- Algorithmic Data Science
- Data-Driven Operations Management
- AI Empowered Digital Medicine
Teaching
- Storing and Retrieving Data (SDSC5003)
- Data Visualization (SDSC2004)
- Big Data: The Arts and Science of Scaling (SDSC3001)
- Data Mining (SDSC3002)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Research output
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An efficient continuous control perspective for reinforcement-learning-based sequential recommendation
Wang, J., Wu, L., Liu, Q. & Yang, Y., 15 Mar 2025, In: Knowledge-Based Systems. 312, 113133.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Graph convolutional network for traffic incidents duration classification
Zhu, L., Zhang, Q., Jian, X. & Yang, Y., 1 Jul 2025, In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 151, 110570.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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NEAR-OPTIMAL ONLINE LEARNING FOR MULTI-AGENT SUBMODULAR COORDINATION: TIGHT APPROXIMATION AND COMMUNICATION EFFICIENCY
Zhang, Q., Wan, Z., Yang, Y., Shen, L. & Tao, D., Apr 2025. 33 p.Research output: Conference Papers › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (without host publication) › peer-review
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Towards proactively improving sleep: machine learning and wearable device data forecast sleep efficiency 4-8 hours before sleep onset
Sakal, C., Chen, T., Xu, W., Zhang, W., Yang, Y. & Li, X., 28 Apr 2025, (Online published) In: Sleep. 16 p.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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Unanticipated Replenishment: Online Policy for Dynamic Service Composition in Manufacturing Cloud
HU, Y., WU, F., LI, X. & YANG, Y., 2025, Proceedings of the 2025 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM). Papalexakis, V., Riondato, M., Zheleva, E., Weninger, T. & Ding, W. (eds.). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, p. 288-296 (Proceedings Series - Data Mining).Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review
Open Access
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CRF-Sub-pj: Trustworthy Large Language Models: A Multifaceted Strategy for Truthfulness, Fairness, and Privacy Preservation
YANG, Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)
30/06/25 → …
Project: Research
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CRF: Trustworthy Large Language Models: A Multifaceted Strategy for Truthfulness, Fairness, and Privacy Preservation
ZHAO, X. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), JIA, X. (Co-Principal Investigator), KING, I. K. C. (Co-Principal Investigator), Li, Q. (Co-Principal Investigator), Xu, J. (Co-Principal Investigator), YANG, Y. (Co-Principal Investigator), TANG, J. (Collaborator), YIN, D. (Collaborator) & ZHENG, Y. (Collaborator)
30/06/25 → …
Project: Research
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ECS: Representation Learning for Subset Generation
YANG, Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)
1/01/21 → 11/03/25
Project: Research
Prizes
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Silver Award Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
QIN, S. J. (Recipient), LAM, H. F. (Recipient), ZHANG, Q. (Recipient), YANG, Y. (Recipient) & LI, L. (Recipient), Mar 2022
Prize: RGC 64B - Prizes and awards
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Best Applied Data Science Paper Award
HU, Y. (Recipient), Wu, F. (Recipient), LI, X. (Recipient) & YANG, Y. (Recipient), 1 May 2025
Prize: RGC 64B - Prizes and awards
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Activities
- 1 Editorial membership and others
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ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (Journal)
YANG, Y. (Associate Editor)
1 Mar 2024Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work (RGC: 61) › Editorial membership and others