Qiang Yang

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

• Machine Learning and Planning with Applications to Web and Wireless Problems, Activity Recognition in Sensor Networks
• Artificial Intelligence: Planning, Machine Learning and Case Based Reasoning

• Workshop Chair, ACM SIGKDD Conference 2007.  Workshop CFP (deadline Feb 28th 2007)
• IEEE ICDM 2007 Data Mining Competition Co-Chair. 
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• Associate Editor for IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2005 --
• Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2005 --
• Associate Editor for International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, Springer 2003 --
• Editorial Board Member for Web Intelligence and Agent Systems Journal 2003 --
• Guest Editor: IEEE Intelligent System, Special Issue on Data Mining and Bioinformatics
• Guest Editor: IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Special Issue on Data Preparation
• Guest Editor: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Special Issue on Machine Learning and Bioinformatics
• 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)

·    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)

Xiaochuan Ni, Gui-Rong Xue, Xiao Ling, Yong Yu, Qiang Yang: "Exploring in the Weblog Space by Detecting Informative and Affective Articles", to appear in Proc. of The 16th World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007), May 8-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Jeffrey J. Pan andQiang Yang, Co-Localization from Labeled and Unlabeled Data Using Graph Laplacian. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07). Hyderabad, India. January 6-12, 2007. Regular paper. (PDF)  pp. 2166-2171.

Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Hua Li, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Document Summarization using Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07). Hyderabad, India. January 6-12, 2007. (PDF)  pp. 2862-2867.

Bin Cao, Dou Shen, Jian-Tao Sun, Xuanhui Wang, Qiang Yang and Zheng Chen. Latent Factor Detection and Tracking with Online Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07). Hyderabad, India. January 6-12, 2007. Regular paper (PDF) pp. 2689--2694

Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Qiang Yang, Yiming Yang, Lei Li, Francis Tianyi Li and George Wenmin Li.  Cost-Sensitive-Data Preprocessing for Mining Customer Relationship Management Databases, IEEE Intelligent Systems.   (Vol. 22, No. 1).  Pages 46-51. January/February 2007 (Link)

Qiang Yang, Kangheng Wu and Yunfei Jiang. Learning Action Models from Plan Traces using Weighted MAX-SAT.  Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ).  To appear, 2007. [PDF]

Xiaoyong Chai and Qiang Yang. Reducing the Calibration Effort for Probabilistic Indoor Location Estimation.  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC). to appear 2007. (PDF)

Dou Shen, Qiang Yang, Zheng Chen. Noise Reduction through Summarization for Web-page Classification. Information Processing and Management: an international journal (IPM).To appear 2007. [PDF]

Qiang Yang, Jie Yin, Charles X. Ling and Rong Pan. Extracting Actionable Knowledge from Decision Trees. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), 19(1) January 2007.  Pages 43-56. (PDF)

S. Yan, D. Xu, L. Zhang, Q. Yang, X. Tang and H. Zhang. Multilinear Discriminant Analysis for Face Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE TIP),    Vol. 16,  No. 1 pp. 212-220. Jan. 2007.

S. Yan, D. Xu, B. Zhang, H. Zhang, Q. Yang and S. Lin. Graph Embedding and Extension: A General Framework for Dimensionality Reduction, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE PAMI).  29(1): 40-51 (2007)

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• Spring 2006:  Knowledge Discovery in Databases (COMP 537) and Introduction to Data Structures (COMP 171)
• Fall 2005: FYP Team projects: Intelligent Pervasive Computing in Indoor Environments.
• 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 数据挖掘实验室
  　

Other Conference Organization and Memberships

Fall 2006:  Introduction of Artificial Intelligence (COMP 211)  and  Introduction to Data Structures (COMP 171)

• IEEE Senior Member, AAAI Member, ACM Member
• Co-guest Editor: 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)
• 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 for 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).  
• Co-guest editor for Computational Intelligence Journal, Special Issue on Case-Base Maintenance (2001)
• Invited Speaker for EWCBR2000, PRICAI2000 and Canadian AI Conference 2001

 

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