Yan Yang received her B. Eng. and M.Eng. degree from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (formerly Huazhong Institute of Technology) in 1984 and 1987 respectively. She received her Ph.D degree in 2007 from Southwest Jiaotong University. In 2002-2003 and 2004-2005 she worked as a visiting scholar at the Center of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI) in Waterloo University, Canada. She was also a visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA in 2018. She is currently Professor of School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence and holds an Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province. She is responsible for national first-class undergraduate major "Computer Science and Technology", and one excellent course of Sichuan Province. She has taught courses such as Data Structures, Operating Systems, Introduction to the Frontiers of Computer Science, Pattern Recognition, and Advanced Artificial Intelligence. Her main research areas include artificial intelligence, big data analysis and mining, ensemble learning and multi-view learning, cloud computing and cloud services, etc.

   Prof. Yang has participated in more than 10 high-level projects recently. And has taken charge of three programs supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one Project of National Science and Technology Support Program, etc. She has authored and co-authored 1 book, 1 special issue of international journal, 1 proceeding, and received more than 10 Chinese invention patents and published over 260 papers (e.g., IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Trans. on Cybernetics, IEEE Trans. on Cloud Computing) in journals and international conferences (e.g., IJCAI, ACM MM, ICDM, EMNLP). 2 papers were ESI Hot Papers and 5 papers was ESI Highly Cited Papers (including 1 selected as one of the 100 most influential international academic papers in China in 2021).

    She has served as conference chair, program chair, or organizing chair of many international conferences, and serves as an editorial board member of International Journal of Big Data Mining and Analytics. And was invited to give more than 20 keynote speeches at international or domestic conferences. Prof. Yang is a distinguished member of CCF, a senior member of CAAI, a member of IEEE, ACM, CCF Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition, CCF Theoretical Computer Science, CCF Big Data Expert Committee, CAAI Machine Learning, CAAI Grain Calculation and Knowledge Discovery Committee, Vice Chair of ACM Chengdu Chapter, Director of ACM SIGCSE China Chapter, Vice president of Sichuan Computer Society, and Director of Sichuan Artificial Intelligence Society. She has served as an engineering education professional certification expert of the Ministry of Education and a member of the Sichuan Computer Professional Teaching Steering Committee.

    She won the second prize for national excellent teaching achievements, the special prize for science and technology of the China Highway Society, the special award of Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award, the first prize of computer science and technology of Sichuan Province, the second and third prizes for excellent teaching achievements in Sichuan Province, the first prize for excellent teaching achievements in SWJTU, the Cao Jianyou Education Award, and the "SiGuo" Award.