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Qiang Yang

Artificial-intelligence researcher

Qiang Yang (Chinese: 杨强; pinyin: yáng qiáng) (born 1963) is the Chair Professor, Department Head of CSE, HKUST in Hong Kong and University New Bright Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor from 2015. He was the founding head of Noah's Ark Lab.²

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Born 1961.¹

About

He had taught at the University of Waterloo and Simon Fraser University. His research interests are data mining and artificial intelligence.

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Companies

HuaweiBoard member Jun 1, 2012 to Nov 30, 2014²⁰

Early life and education

Date not recordedPeking University³
Date not recordedUniversity of Maryland^{3 4}

Career

Occupation: engineer, computer scientist, professor.¹⁰

2012 to 2014Director, Huawei^{5 9}
1995 to 2004Professor, Simon Fraser University^{5 8}
1989 to 1995Associate professor, University of Waterloo^{5 7}
Date not recordedWorked at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology^{5 6}

He is the head of Noah's Ark Lab which was founded by Huawei and headquartered in Hong Kong in June 2012. He was invited to serve as the chief technology advisor of Weixin in 2015. He is also the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) from 2010. He had been the vice chair of ACM SIGART between 2010 and 2013, a program co-chair for ACM SIGKDD 2010, and the general chair for ACM SIGKDD 2012. He had also been a general co-chair for ACM IUI (Intelligent User Interface) 2010 and ACM RecSys (Recommender System) Conference in 2013. He is a member of the IJCAI trustee between 2011 and 2017 and the program chair of IJCAI-15 held in Buenos Aires.

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Personal life

Born1961, Beijing¹¹
CitizenshipPeople's Republic of China¹²

Awards

2017ACM Fellow^{13 17}
2013AAAI Fellow^{13 16}
2012Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science^{13 15}
2011ACM Distinguished Member^{13 14}
Date not recordedFellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition¹³
Date not recordedIEEE Fellow^{4 13}

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WikidataQiang Yang on Wikidata
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WikipediaQiang Yang on Wikipedia
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WikidataQiang Yang: education, on Wikidata
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Wikidataeducation, as reported by Mathematics Genealogy Project
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WikidataQiang Yang: Worked at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, on Wikidata
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WikidataWorked at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as reported
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WikidataAssociate professor, University of Waterloo, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataProfessor, Simon Fraser University, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataDirector, Huawei, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2023
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WikidataQiang Yang: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataQiang Yang: place of birth, on Wikidata
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WikidataQiang Yang: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataQiang Yang: award, on Wikidata
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WikidataQiang Yang: Official website, on Wikidata
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WikidataOfficial website, as reported by ORCID Public Data File 2020
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WikidataHuawei, Board member
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Wikimedia CommonsQiang Yang photo by Jessica mywiki, CC0