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Author IDs
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8209-2898
Scopus Author ID: 57002156200
ResearcherID: S-7081-2018
Google Scholar Profile: EMG6cL0AAAAJ
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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
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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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
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Collaborations from the last five years
Research output
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Spatio-temporal traffic accidents detection via graph based generative adversarial network
Zhu, L., Zhang, Q., Jian, X., Yang, Y. & Li, L., 1 Feb 2026, In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 165, Part B, 16 p., 113488.Research output: Journal Publications and Reviews › RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal › peer-review
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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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GLINT-RU: Gated Lightweight Intelligent Recurrent Units for Sequential Recommender Systems
Zhang, S. (Co-first Author), Wang, M. (Co-first Author), Wang, W., Gao, J., Zhao, X., Yang, Y., Wei, X., Liu, Z. & Xu, T., 20 Jul 2025, KDD '25: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.1. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1948 - 1959Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › 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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Lossless Set Compression by Binary Tree Coding
Tang, L., Zhou, Y. & Yang, Y., 3 Aug 2025, KDD '25: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 2801-2812 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining; vol. 2).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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DON_RMG: Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Deep Learning Limitations in Combinatorial Tabular Data - RMGS
YANG, Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)
1/08/25 → …
Project: Research
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DON: Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Deep Learning Limitations in Combinatorial Tabular Data
YANG, Y. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator)
1/08/25 → …
Project: Research
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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
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Mr. Yifan YANG, 楊一帆
- Department of Data Science - Research Assistant
Person: Doctor of Philosophy (Student), Research Assistant