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Dr. Yin Yang
Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Computer Science
Entity
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Information & Computing Technology
Biography
Dr. Yin "David" Yang is an associate professor of ICT in the College of Science and Engineering at HBKU. He also holds adjunct positions at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), and Singapore's Advanced Digital Sciences Center (a branch lab of UIUC). He has published extensively in leading publications, with a strong focus on data management and data privacy protection.
Dr. Yang is the Lead Principal Investigator (PI) of two projects from the Qatar National Research Fund’s main funding program, the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), focusing on big data and artificial intelligence. He is also the Lead PI of a subproject as part of a large NPRP cluster project on blockchain-based FinTech.
Along with several local projects, he has also completed three Samsung-funded GRO projects.
PhD in Computer Science
HKUST, Hong Kong
2009
- Big Data Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Privacy
- Blockchain Infrastructure
Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering, HBKU
2019 - present
Assistant Professor
College of Science and Engineering, HBKU
2014 - 2019
Research Scientist
Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore
2011 - 2014
- Differentially private histogram publication. The VLDB Journal 22 (6), 797-822, 2013.
- Functional mechanism: regression analysis under differential privacy. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 5 (11), 1364-1375, 2012
- Authenticated join processing in outsourced databases. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2009.
- Heavy Hitter Estimation over Set-Valued Data with Local Differential Privacy. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications, 2016.
- Query by document. Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, 2009.
- 2013: Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering.