
Associate Professor
Division of Information and Computing Technologies
College of Science and Engineering
Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar.
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
- Main interests: big data analytics, data security and privacy.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Google Scholar page
- Selected publications
Awards
- VLDB best paper award, 2021.
- ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award, 2022.
- Winner of the NLP4IF competition at EMNLP 2019.
- Best paper award, IEEE IC2E 2013.
Grants
Current projects:
- Lead PI: QNRF RRC Project on An AI-Based, Socialized Prayer Education App for Children. $49k, 2021-2022 (6 months).
- PI: HMC innovation project on AI-Based Smart Microscope for Histopathology Applications. $55k, 2021-2022 (6 months).
- PI: QNRF-Tübitak project on Intelligent Public Safety Platform for Smart Cities. $449k to the Qatar side, 2021-2023.
- Co-Invesitgator: Facebook Research project (theme: People's Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy) on Privacy Personas in the MENA Region: A Large-Scale Analysis of 21 Countries. 79k, 2020-2021.
- 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 ($603k in my subproject), 2020-2023.
- PI: QNRF-MME Project on Developing National Food Security Intelligence. $746k, 2020-2023.
- PI: HMC project on Towards Developing a Decontamination Mechanism to Re-use N95 Masks. $32k, 2020-2021.
- Lead PI: QNRF NPRP Project on Detecting Fraudulent Messages with Strong Privacy Protection. $595k, 2018-2021.
- Consultant: Analysis and Visualization of Smart Power Grid Communication System at NeoEnergia. $20k, 2020-2021.
- Lead PI: QNRF RRC project on Predicting and Visualizing COVID-19 Patients’ Future Chest X-Ray Images with Deep Learning. $27k, 2020 (three months).
- 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-Investigator: Samsung GRO Project on Collecting and Analyzing Data from Smart Device Users with Strong Privacy Protection. $100k, 2015-2016.
- Co-Investigator: 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.
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