Qiang Yang qyang (at) cse (dot) ust (dot) hk Phone: (00852) 2358-8768 Fax: (00852) 2358-1477 Address: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clearwater Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Room 3563 (Lift 27/28)

Online Publication List | A Survey on Transfer Learning  | 2010 ACM Hong Kong Bioinformatics Symposium (HKUST)
Datasets: 2009 IEEE ICDM Data Mining Contest, 2007 IEEE ICDM Data Mining Contest

Research Interests:

• Artificial Intelligence: Automated Planning, Machine Learning and Case Based Reasoning
• Data Mining and Machine Learning with Applications to Web, Wireless Sensor Networks and Bioinformatics
• Activity Recognition (Wiki), Web Query Classification (Wiki)

Position and Education:
Professor at CSE Dept., HKUST
Co-director of HKUST Risk Management and Business Intelligence Program (RMBI Program)

B.Sc.  (1982) Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing, China (Alumnus of the CUSPEA program in 1982)
M.Sc  (1985) Astrophysics, University of Maryland, USA
M.Sc  (1987) Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA
PhD    (1989) Computer Science, University of Maryland, USA
IEEE Fellow: for contributions to understanding and application of intelligent planning, learning and data mining.

Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada (2001 - 2004)
Associate Professor and NSERC Industry Research Chair at Simon Fraser University, Canada (1995 -- 2001)
Assistant/Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada (1989-1995)
Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research China (1999 to 2000) and University of Washington, USA (2000)

Laboratory Affiliations:
AI and Databases

Honors:

• Champion (Team Coach) of the 2005 ACM KDDCUP Competition on all three performance metrics.  See related news item at the university and at KDnuggets.   (Also see: our system demonstration: http://q2c.cs.ust.hk/q2c/ )
• Co-Champion for the System ARMS (with Kangheng Wu and Yunfei Jiang) for learning planning models, 
     First International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2005, Monterey CA USA
• Champion (Team Coach, Tied for #1 Overall) of the 2004 ACM KDDCUP Competition
• Co-winner of the 1996 Automated Software Engineering Conference best paper award
• Co-winner of the 1994 Canadian AI Conference best paper award

Current Professional Activities:

• Founding Editor in Chief, ACM TIST (ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Manuscript Central now open for submissions.)
• ACM KDD 2010: PC Co-Chair, 2010 (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/KDD2010/.  Abstracts are due Feb 2,
  2010 at 11:59 PM Pacific time.  Papers are due Feb 5, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Pacific time.)
• ACM IUI 2010 (ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference, Feb 2010, Hong Kong, China), General Co-Chair
• 2010 ACM Hong Kong Bioinformatics Symposium (HKUST), PC Co-chair
• Co-guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Social Learning
• AAAI 2010 AI-Web Senior PC
• WSDM 2011 (Hong Kong,  February 7-10, 2011), Publicity Chair.

Advisory Committee Membership:

• Advisory Committee Member: IJCAI'11
• Steering Committee Member of Asia Conference on Machine Learning (ACML): 2009 - present
• Steering Committee Member of Advanced Data Mining and Application Conference (ADMA): 2008 - present
• Advisory Board of Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL): 2009 - present

Editorship:

• Editor in Chief, ACM TIST, 2009 --
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2005 --
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2005 -- 2009
• Editorial Board Member of the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Journal 2003 --
• Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2007 --
• Editorial Board Member of the Frontiers of Computer Science in China 2010 --

Research  Online Publication List

  Invited Talks

• IJCAI 2009 Invited Talk: Activity Recognition: Linking Low-level Sensors to High-level Intelligence,  Pasadena CA USA. July 17 2009. (Video&Slides @ Videolectures.net; and invited paper in PDF format)
• ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Invited Talk: Heterogeneous Transfer Learning with Real-world Applications, Singapore, August 2009 (Slides in PDF Format (2.5MB), and invited paper in PDF format)
• ACML 2009 Invited Talk: Transfer Learning Beyond Text Classification. Nanjing, China, November 2009
• Invited Talk: Enjoy Life Through Research.  2009 Hong Kong Baptist University, Graduate Research Symposium.
• Keynote Speech: Recent Advances on Transfer Learning, at 3^rd ISKE Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Xiamen, China, Nov 2008.
• Keynote Speech: An Introduction to Transfer Learning.  at Advanced Data Mining and Applications Conference (ADMA'08, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Oct 2008)
• Invited Talk: Chinese Machine Learning Workshop MLA'07, Nanjing, China, Nov 2007 (program and slides)
• Keynote Speech: Mining the Web for Query Classification at NCIRCS'2007
• Invited talk at Sixth International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2007), HKUST, Hong Kong. Title: Data Mining for Bioinformatics: Some Challenging Problems (ppt)
• 10 Challenging Problems for Data Mining -- A Position Presentation at ICDM 2005 Conference
  (also see http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~icdm/10Problems/index.shtml for a companion paper)
• Invited Talk Speaker for EWCBR2000, PRICAI2000 and Canadian AI Conference 2001

  Books

·         Intelligent Planning --- A Decomposition and Abstraction Based Approach  Qiang Yang,  Springer-Verlag, 1997  
- See a book review by Fausto Giunchiglia and Luca Spalazzi in the Artificial Intelligence Journal

·         Constraint-based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments , Steven Woods, Alex Quilici and Qiang Yang. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dec. 1997.

Publications:     By Year      |    By Area     |  A Survey on Transfer Learning

Teaching

• Fall 2009: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (MSC-IT 521)
• Fall 2009: COMP 337: Introduction to Data Mining
• Fall 2007/08: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (MSC-IT 521)
• Fall 2007: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence  (COMP 221)
• Fall 2006:  Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (COMP 221)  and  Introduction to Data Structures (COMP 171)
• Spring 2006:  Knowledge Discovery in Databases (COMP 537) and Introduction to Data Structures (COMP 171)
• Spring 2004:  COMP 537:  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in Databases
• Summer 2003: COMP 111: Software Tools
• Spring 2003: COMP221: Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
• Fall 2002: COMP 111: Software Tools with Unix Shell Programming and Perl Programming
• Spring 2002 (Postgraduate Students) COMP 537: Knowledge Discovery in Databases. 
• Fall 2001:  COMP 111: Software Tools with Unix Shell Programming and Perl Programming
• Teaching at Simon Fraser University and the University of Waterloo
• Dragon-star Lectures on Data Mining (龙星计划, 川大龙星计划首页, 2007

Past Professional Organization, Memberships and Services

• IEEE Fellow, AAAI Member, ACM Member, AAAS Member
• Organizing committee member: NIPS 2009 Workshop on Transfer Learning for Structured Data (TLSD-09)
• Co-chair: The First International Workshop on Transfer Mining (IEEE ICDM 2009 Workshop)
• Co-guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Mobile Information Retrieval (2009)
• 2009 Advanced Data Mining and Applications Conference (ADMA'09), General Co-Chair, Beijing China. August 2009 (Conference Photo 5MB)
• Chair: 2009 IEEE ICDM Data Mining Contest, and 2007 IEEE ICDM Data Mining Contest
• The 7th Chinese Workshop on Machine Learning and Applications MLA '09: Co-organizer.
• 2009 ACM CIKM Conference (Vice Chair in Knowledge Management Track)
• Area Chair for the First Asian Machine Learning Conference  ACML 2009.  Nov 2-4, 2009
• Associate Editor for International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer 2003 -- 2008
• Co-chair of the 2nd IEEE Pervasive Computing Conference, Workshop on Intelligent Pervasive Devices (PerDev2009)
• PC Member: NIPS 2009, ICDM 2009, IJCAI 2009, IJCAI 2009 Workshop on Grand Challenges for Reasoning from Experiences and Workshop on Learning Structural Knowledge From Observations, etc.
• PC member of the Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), ICCBR 2009
• 2009 ACM-Hong Kong Student Research and Career Day (Porgram Chair)
• Guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent System, Special Issue on Data Mining and Bioinformatics (2005)
• Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Special Issue on Data Preparation (2006)
• Guest Editor: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Special Issue on Machine Learning and Bioinformatics (2005)
• Co-guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Data and Information Cleaning and Preprocessing (2004)
• Co-guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Mining the Web for Actionable Knowledge (2004)
• Co-guest Editor: Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Data Cleaning and Preparation for Data Mining (2003)
• Co-guest editor for Computational Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Case-Base Maintenance (2001)
• Program Co-chair, The Ninth Biennial Pacific Rim Artificial Intelligence Conference (PRICAI 2006), Guilin, Guangxi, China.  2006
• Program Co-chair 2007 Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2007), Nanjing, China, 2007
• Tutorial Co-Chair, The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005, and AAAI 2006) (Call for Tutorials)
• IEEE ICDM 2007 Data Mining Contest Co-Chair (Aug to Oct 2007): Link to 2007 ICDM Data Mining Contest and Data Sets
• AAAI-08 AI on the Web Senior PC, ICML-08 PC, WWW-08 China Track PC, PAKDD 2008 Area Chair, PRICAI 2008 Area Chair, CIKM 2008 PC, WSDM 2008 PC, IEEE Percom Workshop on Power-aware Computing 2008/09, IUI-09 Senior PC, Workshop Chair, ACM SIGKDD Conference 2007.  Workshop CFP,  Workshop List
• Industry Track & Demo-Exhibits Co-Chair,  IEEE Web Intelligence Conference/ACM WI-Intelligent Agent Technology'04, Beijing China
• Co-chair for 2002 AIPS Workshop on Real World Planning, Toulouse, France, 2002
• Conference Committee Member and Reviwer for AAAI 2007, IJCAI 2007, KDD 2007, ICDM 2007, ICAPS 2007, ICCBR 2007, APBC07, AAAI04, ICDM 04, PRICAI04, KCAP03, ICCBR03, ICDM03, WISE03, ICAPS03, APWEB03, AAAI02, AIPS '02, IUI '02, AAMAS 02
• Conference Chair ICCBR 2001 (2001 International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, Vancouver BC, Canada)

Graduate Students

• Sinno Jialin Pan
• Vincent Wenchen Zheng
• Evan Wei Xiang
• Bin Cao
• Derek Hao Hu
• Nathan Nan Liu
• Qian Xu (Bioengineering)
• Simone Marini (Bioengineering)
• Weike Pan (Co-supervisor)
• Yin Zhu

Past PhD Students at HKUST

Other Past Students and Visitors

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