General Information

Full Name Zhiyong Yang
Languages Chinese, English

Education

  • 2018-2021
    Ph.D.
    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IIE, CAS)
    • Ph.D. in Cybersecurity
    • Sep 2017 – Present Beijing, China
  • 2014-2017
    Msc.
    University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB)
    • Msc. in Computer Science
    • Sep 2014 – Jan 2017 Bejing, China

Open Source Projects

  • 2022-now
    XCurve
    • XCurve: Machine Learning with X-Curve Metrics

Honors and Awards

  • 2014-2017
    • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. (国家奖学金), 2015
    • Academic Star, School of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学计算机与通信学院学术之星称号), 2016
    • Outstanding Graduate of University of Science and Technology Beijing. (北京科技大学优秀毕业生), 2016
    • Outstanding graduate thesis Award of University of Science and Technology Beijing (北京科技大学优秀硕士学位论文), 2017
  • 2018-2021
    • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. (国家奖学金), 2018
    • Director Special Scholarship Award, IIE, CAS. (中科院信息工程研究所所长特别奖), 2018
    • Top-20 Nomination of Baidu Scholarship (only awarded for 20 candidates over the Chinese students over the world ). (百度全球20强), 2019
    • Director Special Scholarship Award, IIE, CAS. (中科院信息工程研究所所长特别奖), 2019
    • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. (国家奖学金), 2019
    • Top-10% NeurIPS Reviwer. (Top-10% NeurIPS审稿人), 2020
    • CAS Presidential Scholarship (Special Prize) (中科院院长特别奖) 62/5000, 2020
    • Top 100 Baidu AI Chinese Rising Stars. (百度AI华人新星百强榜单), 2021
    • Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program（博士后创新人才支持计划）, 2021
    • Distinguished Dissertation Award of Chinese Academy of Sciences (recognizing 100 papers) (中科院百篇优博论文), 2022

Academic Interests

  • Machine learning.
    • AUC Optimization.
    • Learning Theory.
    • Meta-Learning / Multi-task Learning.
    • Subspace Learning.