Scholar
Yao Qiang
Google Scholar ID: 8ADcg38AAAAJ
Oakland University
Citations & Impact
Citations
374
H-index
12
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
14
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications at top conferences/journals including NeurIPS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, EACL, MICCAI, IJCNN, ECCV, WACV, The Web Conference, and ECAI
- 2025: Papers accepted at ECAI 2025, Medical Physics, MSLD 2025 (3 posters + 1 oral), IJCNN 2025; awarded Faculty Research Fellowship from Oakland University
- 2024: Papers accepted at ECCV 2024, WACV 2025, EACL 2024, The Web Conference 2024; multiple arXiv preprints on LLM applications and safety
- 2023: Papers accepted at MICCAI 2023, IJCA 2023; several arXiv preprints on Trustworthy AI and LLM Safety
- 2022: Papers accepted at NeurIPS 2023, AAAI 2023, IJCA 2022; presented at NeurIPS 2022, AAAI 2023, IJCAI 2022, IJCNN 2022
- Awards: Michael E. Conrad Award (2022–2023, sole recipient among CS PhD graduates at Wayne State), AAAI-23 Student Scholarship, NeurIPS 2022 Scholar Award, multiple travel grants (IEEE CIS, IJCAI, departmental, and graduate school)
Research Experience
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Oakland University since August 2024
- Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (May 2023 onward), working on LLM Safety
- Recruited first full-time Ph.D. student, Aswini Sivakumar (December 2024)
- Mentor for NSF REU program in summer 2025
- Invited speaker at Wayne State University CS Graduate Seminar (September 2024) on reliability in Vision Transformers
- Presented on Trustworthy AI at UNC Charlotte AI Reading Group Seminar (April 2024)
