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:

Research

  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.

Select Recent Publications (2002/2003)        More Complete Online Publication List

  • 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 DatabasesProceedings 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 LuMining 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

    Recruiting: looking for a postdoctoral fellow (2003 -- 2004)
Teaching

·         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