Bio:

Dr. Yang is a Research Scientist at Twitter, working on machine learning infrastructure and social targeting. He earned his Ph.D in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012.

He published extensively at leading academic conferences and journals. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGIR 2011 Best Student Paper award, the UAI 2010 Best Student Paper award (nominated) and the PAKDD 2008 Best Student Paper award.