Yan Huang is a Regents Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the University of North Texas , Denton, TX, USA. She is a ACM Distinguished Member and a UNT Decker Scholar.
She served as the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies of College of Engineering 2016-2019 with a break in between to serve as the Interim Dean of the College July 2018- Dec. 2018. She was Senior Associate Dean 2019-2021 concurrently with the role of Director of Graduate Studies 2019-2020 and Interim Chair of Computer Science and Engineering 2020-2021 .
Her research interests include spatio-temporal databases and mining,
geo-stream data processing, smart transportation, and location-based social networks.
She has been a visiting scholar of Microsoft Research Asia May - Aug. 2011. During Fall 2011, she visited Fudan University , Shanghai, China.
Her research is supported by Texas Advanced Research Program (ARP), Oak Ridge National Lab, NSF, Texas Department of Transportation, and DoD. Click for her Google Scholar page.
She received her B.S. degree in Computer Science from
Peking University, Beijing, China, in July 1997 and Ph.D. degree in, Computer Science from
University of Minnesota , Twin-cities, MN, USA,
in July 2003.
Recent News:
- Sep. 04, 2024: Two papers have been accepted by ACM SIGSPatial 2024.
- Feb. 26, 2024: Our work has been accepted by CVPR 2024.
- Feb. 20, 2024: Ph.D. student Xiaomin Zhao's work has been accepted by COLING 2024.
- Jan. 31, 2024: Ph.D. student Thanh Le's work has been accepted by PAKDD 2024.
- Sep. 01, 2023: Tomas Trebat has joined our lab as a Ph.D. student.
- Sep. 22, 2023: Check out the news release on our $3.76M grant from Army Research Lab.
- Sep. 22, 2023: Our paper has been accepted by SIGSPATIAL 2023.
- Sep. 13, 2023: Ph.D. student Xiaomin Zhao's work has been accepted by Findings of AACL 2023.
- Sep. 01, 2023: Tomas Trebat has joined our lab as a Ph.D. student.
- Aug. 09, 2023: Chenyang Yu has joined our lab as a Ph.D. student.
- Aug. 07, 2023: Ph.D. student Somayeh Ghanbarzade's work has received the Best Paper Award at IEEE IRI 2023.
- Jul. 22, 2023: Our paper has been accepted by ICCV 2023.
- Jun. 28, 2023: Mengxuan Zhang has joined us as a postdoc research scholar.
- Jun. 14, 2023: The work by students William Locke and Nikita Lokhmachev has been accepted by IEEE PIMRC 2023.
- Jun. 12, 2023: Ph.D. student Somayeh Ghanbarzade's work has been accepted by IEEE IRI 2023.
- May. 02, 2023: Ph.D. student Somayeh Ghanbarzade's work has been accepted by the Findings of ACL 2023.
- Mar. 28, 2023: Thanh Leh has joined our lab as a Ph.D. student.
- Feb. 02, 2022: Ph.D. student Constant Marks has been selected for the SMART Scholarship.
- Apr. 01, 2021: Dr. Huang is named Regents Professor of UNT.