Qiang Yang

Qiang Yang was born in Beijing, China. He is the son of Haishou Yang ({{zh|c=杨海寿}}), an Astronomer in China.

Qiang Yang attended Tsinghua University High School in 1975 and then Peking University in 1978. He graduated from Peking University with a degree in astrophysics and went to the US through the CUSPEA exams in 1982. He obtained his master's degree in astrophysics from the University of Maryland in 1985, and another master's degree in computer science at the same university in 1987. He obtained his doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Maryland in 1989{{cite web | url=http://www.isr.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=3520 | publisher=University of Maryland | title=Alumnus Qiang Yang named IEEE Fellow}} (supervisor: Dana S. Nau).

Qiang Yang had taught at the University of Waterloo (1989–1995, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor) and Simon Fraser University (1995–2001, Associate Professor, Full Professor). He worked in Microsoft Research Asia from 1999 to 2000. He is now a professor of CSE at HKUST in Hong Kong.{{cite web | url=http://www.ust.hk/eng/news/press_20081128-654.html | publisher=HKUST | title=Press Release}}

• Qiang Yang is an ACM Fellow{{citation | url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2017/december/fellows-2017 | title=ACM Recognizes 2017 Fellows for Making Transformative Contributions and Advancing Technology in the Digital Age | publisher=Association for Computing Machinery | date=December 11, 2017 | access-date=2017-11-13}} (2017–).
• He was elevated to AAAI fellow in 2013.{{cite web | url=http://livenews.co.nz/2013/09/27/dr-qiang-yang-honoured-the-1st-aaai-fellowship-among-chinese-scientists-worldwide/ | title=Dr. Qiang YANG Honoured the 1st AAAI Fellowship among Chinese Scientists Worldwide | date=2013-09-27 | website=livenews.co.nz | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225153141/http://livenews.co.nz/2013/09/27/dr-qiang-yang-honoured-the-1st-aaai-fellowship-among-chinese-scientists-worldwide/ | archive-date=2016-02-25}}
• He was elevated to IEEE Fellow{{cite web | url=http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2009.html | publisher=IEEE | title=IEEE - Fellow Class of 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629151655/http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2009.html | archive-date=June 29, 2011}}

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(2009–).

• He was elevated to IAPR Fellow{{cite web | url=http://www.iapr.org/fellowsandawards/index.php?ar=1#y | publisher=IAPR | title=IAPR Fellow List}} (2012–).
• He was elevated to AAAS Fellow{{cite web | url=http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/2012.shtml | publisher=AAAS | title=AAAS Fellow List | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323142745/http://www.aaas.org/aboutaaas/fellows/2012.shtml | url-status=dead | archive-date=2013-03-23}} (2012–).
• He was elected chairman of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (2017–).

He is the head of Noah's Ark Lab which was founded by Huawei and headquartered in Hong Kong in June 2012.{{cite web | url=http://www.noahlab.com.hk | publisher=Huawei | title=NOAH'S ARK LAB - Home}} He was invited to serve as the chief technology advisor of Weixin in 2015.{{cite web | url=http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MjM5NzIwODcyMQ==&mid=363211960&idx=1&sn=135891bdc26669c38b29ff6157c41921 | title=【独家报道】 探戈IJCAI-15——专访大会主席杨强教授 | author1=腾讯高校合作 | date=3 August 2005 | access-date=20 September 2015 | trans-title=Interview YANG Qiang, the Program Chair of IJCAI-15 | language=zh}} He is also the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) from 2010.{{cite web | url=http://tist.acm.org/editors.html | publisher=Association for Computing Machinery | title=TIST Editorial Board | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016060626/http://tist.acm.org/editors.html | archive-date=October 16, 2013 }} 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.

• "Digital Watermarking for Machine Learning Model"{{cite book

| first1 = Lixin | last1 = Fan

| first2 = Chee Seng | last2 = Chan

| first3 = Qiang | last3 = Yang

| title = Digital Watermarking for Machine Learning Model

| year = 2023

| publisher = Springer Singapore

| isbn = 9789811975530}}

• "Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Master's and PhD Degrees in Science & Engineering"{{cite book

| first1 = Charles | last1 = Ling | first2 = Qiang | last2 = Yang

| title = Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Master's and PH.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering

| year = 2012

| publisher = Morgan & Claypool

| isbn = 9781608458103}} (Chinese:《学术研究你的成功之道{{cite book

| author1 = 凌晓峰

| author2 = 杨强

| title = 学术研究你的成功之道

| year = 2012

| publisher = 清华大学出版社

| location = 北京

| isbn = 9787302304319}})

• "Intelligent Planning: A Decomposition and Abstraction Based Approach"{{cite book

| last = Yang

| first = Qiang

| title = Intelligent Planning: A Decomposition and Abstraction Based Approach

| date = 6 October 1997

| publisher = Springer

| isbn = 9783540619017}}

• "Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments (International Series in Software Engineering)"{{cite book

| first1 = Steven G. | last1 = Woods

| first2 = Alexander E. | last2 = Quilici

| first3 = Qiang | last3 = Yang

| title = Constraint-Based Design Recovery for Software Reengineering: Theory and Experiments (International Series in Software Engineering)

| year = 1997

| publisher = Springer

| isbn = 9780792380672}}

• Zhang Hongjiang
• Hui Xiong
• Yong Rui
• Harry Shum
• Hsiao-Wuen Hon
• Ya-Qin Zhang
• Xing Xie

{{Reflist}}

• [http://www.cse.ust.hk/~qyang/ Qiang Yang Home Page].
• {{google scholar id|1LxWZLQAAAAJ}}
• [http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81372591186&CFID=369738661&CFTOKEN=19900191 Qiang Yang - The ACM Digital Library].

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Category:1964 births

Category:Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Category:Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition

Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Category:2017 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery