Qiang Yang
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering
(00852) 2358-8768 Fax: (00852) 2358-1477
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Learning Survey, Software and Data Resources Transfer
Learning in Social Recommendations | MIT Technology
Review Article (ViCAD System )
Link )
| Book: Crafting Your Research
Future , Morgan&Claypool Publishers ( link ) |
Huawei Noah's Ark Research
Lab Eng ,
Chn | Bio
New Publications:
"Bird Flu Outbreak Prediction via Satellite
Tracking IEEE Intelligent Systems ,
26 April 2013. By Zhou, Y.; Tang, M.; Pan, W.; Li, J. ; Wang, W.; Shao,
J.; Wu, L.; Li, J.; Yang, Q. and Yan, B. IEEE computer Society
Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society. "Transfer
learning in heterogeneous collaborative filtering domains ." by
Weike Pan, Qiang Yang. Artificial Intelligence
Journal . 197: 39-55 (2013)Papers published in 2013
Research Interests:
Data Mining : Transfer Learning, Social Media and Web
Mining, Mobile Data Mining.Artificial Intelligence : Automated Planning, Machine
Learning, Activity Recognition, and Case-based Reasoning
Positions and Education: Head of Huawei Noah Ark
Research Lab (2012 - present)
B.Sc. (1982) Astrophysics
at Peking University , Beijing,
China (Alumnus of the CUSPEA
program in 1982)Astrophysics , University of Maryland , USAUniversity
of Maryland , USAUniversity
of Maryland , USA
Simon Fraser
University , Canada (2001)Simon Fraser University ,
Canada (1995 - 2001)University of Waterloo ,
Canada (1989-1995) Microsoft
Research China (1999 to 2000) and University of Washington , USA
(2000)
RMBI Program at HKUST (2007-2011)AI and Databases
Awards:
Two champions out of three dedicated tasks in Nokia
Mobile Data Challenge (Nokia MDC), 2012: see Announcement .
ACM
CIKM-2011
Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award : Ou Jin, Nathan Nan Liu, Yong Yu
and Qiang Yang. Transferring
Topical Knowledge from Auxiliary Long Text for Short Text Understanding.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management (ACM CIKM 2011 ). Glasgow, UK. Oct 2011.Third place in the rating prediction of ACM KDDCUP 2011 , Yahoo! Music
Recommendation Challenge (Team Coach of
Inner Peace team) (more info )
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 modelsFirst 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 Conference and Society Activities:
General co-chair: ACM RecSys 2013 ,
Hong Kong, China, Oct 2013.
Program co-chair: IEEE
Big Data Conference , 2013. CA USA Oct 2013.
General Chair, ACM
KDD 2012 ,
Beijing, China, Aug 12-16, 2012. Interviewing
Chinese KDD Scholars
for KDD 2012 : A Conversation with the Chinese KDD Leaders (link ).
IJCAI Trustee (2011 -
2017),
IJCAI 2013
Publicity Chair and Area Chair, IJCAI 2015 Program Chair.Vice Chair of ACM SIGART
(ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence). July 2010.
More Conference Activities
Advisory Committee Membership: Editorship: Datasets:
Invited Talks:
Keynote Speaker: PAKDD 2013, Brisbane, Australia, April
2013. Title: Big Data,
Lifelong Machine Learning and Transfer Learning .
Keynote Speaker: ACM
WSDM 2013 , Rome Italy, Feb 2013. Title: Big
Data, Lifelong Machine Learning and Transfer Learning .
Keynote Speaker at ADMA
2012 Conference , Nanjing, China, Dec 2012. Title: Transfer Learning
with Applications.
Invited
Speaker at ACM KDD-2012 Workshop on
Cross-domain Knowledge Discovery on
Web and Social Networks . Title: Heterogeneous and Source-Free
Transfer
Learning in Data Mining. Beijing, China Aug 12, 2012.
Keynote speaker at the 7th IFIP International Conference
on Intelligent Information Processing (IIP2012 ), 12-15 October,
2012 in Guilin, China. Title: Transfer Learning and Applications.
Invited Talk at Taiwan AI Society Annual Conference (TAAI-2012 ),
Tainan, Taiwan, Nov 2012.
Invited Speaker at SIAM
International Conference on Data Mining (SDM-12) , Title: Cross-Domain
Knowledge Transfer in Data Mining Anaheim, CA USA,
April 26-28, 2012. (PDF )
Keynote Talk at PCC
(Chinese Pervasive Computing Conference, 2011) , Title:
"Collaborative, Cross-Domain Activity Recognition For Ambient Living
(协作及跨域环境下的动作识别 )", Sept 17, 2011, Tsinghua
University, China.
Invited Talk at IJCAI Workshop on Social Web Mining: Transfer
Learning in Social Recommendations . July 25, 2011. Barcelona,
Spain.
Keynote at 2011 Chinese Conference on Data Mining (CCDM 2011, 中国数据挖掘年会 ):
"From
Learning by Analogy to Transfer Learning ", May 2011, Guangzhou,
China.
Distinguished
Lecture Series , Academia Sinica, Institute of Information Science,
Taipei Taiwan. May 2011 (link )
2010
Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Keynote
Speech: Data Mining for Sensor-based Activity Recognition. Dec 2010.IJCAI 2009 Invited Talk: Activity
Recognition: Linking Low-level Sensors to High-level Intelligence, Pasadena CA USA . July 17 2009. (Video&Slides @ Videolectures.net invited paper in PDF format )
ACL 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 ) More invited talks...
Books:
Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful
Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering
Teaching: Hong Kong Services: Selected Magazine and Newspaper
Articles:
Current Graduate Students: Past PhD Students at HKUST:
Dr. Derek Hao Hu ,
graduated in Dec 2012. Thesis: Learning
based Activity Recognition . Now: Microsoft (Bing) at Redmond,
Washington, USA.
Dr. Weizhu
Chen , graduated in Aug 2012. Thesis:
An Associative Characterization of Click Models in Web Search .
Now: Microsoft (Bing) at Redmond, Washington, USA.
Dr. Simone Marini, graduated in Aug 2012. Thesis: Qualitative
and Quantitative Protein Interaction Prediction with Machine Learning .
Now: Postdoc in Italy.
Dr. Evan Wei
Xiang , graduated in June 2012. Thesis:
Transfer Learning with Open Web Data . Now: Baidu.com
Dr. Weike Pan ,
graduated in June, 2012. Thesis: Transfer
Learning in Collaborative Filtering . Now: Baidu.com
Dr. Nathan Nan Liu ,
graduated in December, 2011. Thesis:
Ranking Oriented Approach to Context Aware Recommendation .
Current:
Yahoo! Labs .
Dr. Bin Cao ,
graduated in August, 2011. Thesis: Collaborative
and Transfer Learning in Recommendations . Current:
Microsoft Research Asia.
Dr. Vincent
Wenchen
Zheng , graduated in August, 2011. Thesis:
Learning with Limited Data in Sensor-based Human Behavior Recognition .
Current: Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Dr. Can Yang ,
graduated in May,
2011. Co-supervised with Weichuan
Yu . Thesis: SNP data
analysis in genome-wide association studies . Now: Yale
University, USA.
Dr. Qian Xu, graduated in Nov 2010. Co-supervised
with H. Xue. Thesis: Knowledge
Transfer for Solving the Data Scarcity Problem for Machine
Learning in Boinformatics . Now: Baidu.com
Dr. Sinno
Jialin Pan .
Graduated in September 2010. Thesis:
Feature-based Transfer Learning with Real-world Applications .
Current: Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore.
Dr. Jeffrey Junfeng Pan .
Graduated in December 2007. Thesis:
Learning-based Localization in Wireless and Sensor Networks .
Current: Facebook
Dr. Dou Shen . Graduated
in June
2007. Thesis: Learning
Based Web Query Understanding , co-founder: BuzzLabs , and 2011-2012: Senior
Director, CityGrid Media .
2012-present: Director of Advertisement Union, Baidu Inc.
Dr. Jie
Yin .
Graduated in June 2006. Thesis:
Probabilistic Activity Recognition from Low-Level Sensors .
Research Scientist, CSIRO,
Australia .
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