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Associate Professor (coordinator for AI and Data Analytics research) 
Division of Information and Computing Technologies
College of Science and Engineering
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar.

Contact

  • Emails: yyang AT hbku.edu.qa, yin AT yang.net
  • Tel: +974-445-HKUST

Research

Grants

Current projects:
  • Lead PI: QNRF RRC project on Predicting and Visualizing COVID-19 Patients’ Future Chest X-Ray Images with Deep Learning. $27k, 2020.
  • Lead PI: QNRF NPRP Project on Detecting Fraudulent Messages with Strong Privacy Protection. $595k, 2018-2021.
  • Lead PI (blockchain infrastructure): QNRF NPRP Cluster Project on A Secure End-to-End Blockchain-Based Solution to Finance Trade: The Legal, Technological, and Economic Framework, $3 million, 2020-2023.
  • PI: QNRF-MME Project on Developing National Food Security Intelligence, $746k, 2020-2023.
Completed projects:
  • Lead PI: QNRF NPRP Project on Real-Time Analytics for Sports Video Streams. $717k, 2017-2020.
  • PI: Samsung GRO Project on Building and Enhancing AI Models on Smart Devices with Differential Privacy. $100k, 2018-2019.
  • Co-PI: A*STAR HCCS Project on Scalable, Real-Time Analytics on Challenging Data. $1.2 million, 2014-2016.
  • Co-PI: Samsung GRO Project on Collecting and Analyzing Data from Smart Device Users with Strong Privacy Protection. $100k, 2015-2016.
  • Co-PI: Samsung GRO Project on Discovering Patterns from Smart Device Users with Strong Privacy Protection. $100k, 2016-2017.
  • Mentor: QNRF UREP project on Line-Tracking Smart Car with Edge-based Path Recognition and Dual-PID Control Strategy, 2018-2019.

Student Achievements

  • Shehel Yoosuf. 2nd place in Artificial Intelligence National Competition, Level 1: Concept and Design. 2020.
  • Shehel Yoosuf. 1st place in EMNLP/NLP4IF fragment-level propaganda classification competition, Task FLC, 2019.
  • Mohammed Amro. 8th place solution (5th place participant), ISIC Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection, Task 3, 2018.
  • Alanood Alkuwari. 3rd place, Qatar Development Bank Startup Week, 2017.
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