Lingnan Fellow

Professor Qiang YANG

Professor Qiang Yang is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Director of Hong Kong PolyU Academy for AI (PAAI) & Research Institute for Federated Learning (RIFL), and Vice President of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). He is also a Fellow of CAAI, AAAI, ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He was the founding EiC of top international journals ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. His research focuses are the study and application of Transfer Learning, Federated Learning and AI Planning. His latest books are 《Transfer Learning》, 《Federated Learning》, 《Privacy-preserving Computing》,《AI Model Watermarks》,etc. Professor Yang is a Professor Emeritus of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Chief AI Officer Emeritus of WeBank. He has also been conference or program chairs for IJCAI and AAAI. He has been honoured with the 2017 ACM SIGKDD Distinguished Service Award and the 2023 IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.