Funding for New Century Excellent Talents in University (2011); the "Kun-Xue-Shou-Wang" Award for Excellence in Teaching (2012); Operations Research & Application Award by Operations Research Society of China in 2016; Youth Innovation Award by China Society for Computational Mathematics in 2017. Published several papers such as 'An algorithm for ordinal classification based on pairwise comparison', 'Function representation based slicer for 3D printing', etc.
Research Experience
Worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Seoul National University from December 2006 to November 2007; Visiting scholar at School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at Georgia Institute of Technology during August 2010 - August 2011.
Education
Received Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from USTC in 1997; Master's degree in Mathematics from USTC in 2000; PhD in Mathematics from USTC in 2005.
Background
Research Interests: Geometric Modeling and Processing, Sparse Modeling and Sparse Optimization, Data Science (Medical Image Analysis, Intelligent Video Analysis, etc.). Professional Field: Applied Mathematics. Biography: Prof. Yang has been working on geometric modeling and processing, optimization methods and their applications in sparse recovery. He also has a particular interest in the integration of optimization, machine learning, and statistics for solving big data problems.