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Qiang Yang's resume
Address: Department of Computer
Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clearwater Bay,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Room 3562 (Lift 25/26)
Research Interests
- Data
Mining with application to Web Mining and Customer Relationship
Management
- Artificial
Intelligence: Planning, Machine Learning and Case Based Reasoning
Position and Education:
Associate Professor at HK-UST
Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada
Adjunct Professor at University of Waterloo, Canada
B.Sc. (1982) Astrophysics, Peking
University, Beijing, China (joined Univ. of
Maryland through the CUSPEA program
in 1982)
M.Sc (1985) Astrophysics,
University of Maryland
M.Sc (1987) Computer Science,
University of Maryland
PhD (1989) Computer
Science, University of Maryland
Professor at Simon
Fraser University (2001 - present)
Associate Professor and NSERC Industry Chair at Simon Fraser University (1995 -- 2001)
Associate
Professor, Computer
Science, Univ. of Waterloo (1989-1995)
Visiting
Researcher at Microsoft
Research China (1999 to 2000) and University
of Washington (2000).
Laboratory Affiliations:
AI and Databases
Honors:
Co-winner of the 1994
Canadian AI Conference best paper award
Co-winner of the 1996 Automated
Software Engineering Conference best paper award
Activities:
- Co-guest
Editor: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics, Special
Issue on Machine Learning and Bioinformatics (Due date: September 1
2004).
- Industry
Track & Demo-Exhibits Chair, IEEE
Web Intelligence Conference/ACM WI-Intelligent Agent Technology'04,
Beijing China
- Co-guest
Eidtor: IEEE
Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Data and Information Cleaning
and Preprocessing (2003)
- Co-guest
Editor: IEEE
Intelligent Systems Special Issue on Mining the Web for Actionable
Knowledge (2003)
- Co-guest
Editor: Applied Artificial Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on
Data Cleaning and Preparation for Data Mining (2003)
- Associate
Editor for International
Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer and
Editorial Board Member for Web Intelligence and Agent
Systems Journal
- Co-chair
for 2002 AIPS
Workshop on Real World Planning, Toulouse, France, 2002.
- Conference
Committee Member for KCAP03, ICCBR03, ICDM03, WISE03,
ICAPS03, APWEB03, AAAI02,
AIPS '02, IUI '02, AAMAS 02
- Invited
Speaker for EWCBR2000, PRICAI2000 and Canadian AI
Conference 2001
- Conference
Chair ICCBR 2001 (2001
International Conference on Case Based Reasoning, Vancouver BC,
Canada).
- Co-guest
editor for Computational
Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Case-Base Maintenance (2001)
Research
Books
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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
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Constraint-based Design
Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments , Steven Woods, Alex Quilici and Qiang
Yang. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dec 1997.
- Qiang Yang, Jie Yin, Charles Ling,
and Tielin Chen, Post-processing Decision Trees to Extract Actionable
Knowledge Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International
Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2003). Florida, USA,
November 2003. IEEE Computer Society.
- Raymond Chan, Qiang Yang, and
Yi-Dong Shen, Mining High Utility Itemsets Proceedings
of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2003).
Florida, USA, November 2003. IEEE Computer Society.
- Qiang Yang and Hong Cheng. Mining
High Utility Plans from Plan Databases. Proceedings of
the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2003).
Florida, USA, November 2003. IEEE Computer Society.
- Qiang Yang and Hong Cheng. Case
Mining from Large Databases. Proceedings of the 5th
International Conference on Case based Reasoning (ICCBR
2003). Trondheim, Norway. June 2003. Pages
691-702
- Yidong Shen, Qiang Yang, Zhong Zhang
and Hongjun Lu. Mining the Customer's Up-to-Moment
Preferences for E-commerce Applications. Pacific
Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD 2003),
Seoul, South Korea, 2003. Pages 166-177
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Spring 2004: COMP 537: Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining in Databases
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Summer 2003: COMP 111: Software
Tools
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Spring 2003: COMP221: Fundamentals
of Artificial Intelligence
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Fall 2002: COMP 111: Software Tools
with Unix Shell Programming and Perl Programming
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Spring 2002 (Postgraduate Students)
COMP 537: Knowledge Discovery in Databases.
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Fall 2001: COMP 111: Software
Tools with Unix Shell Programming and Perl Programming
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Teaching at Simon Fraser
University and the University of Waterloo
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