We would like to extend a warm welcome to Professor YANG Xingyi, who has joined the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) as an Assistant Professor under the Presidential Young Scholar Scheme, effective 2 July 2025.
Professor YANG received his PhD from the National University of Singapore; Master’s from the University of California San Diego, U.S., and Bachelor’s from Southeast University, China. During his PhD, he was also a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford.
Professor YANG’s research interests include artificial intelligence, generative AI, and multi-modal learning. He has published extensively in leading journals and conferences in these fields and has been recognized with numerous honors. He received a Best Paper Honorable Mention at NeurIPS 2022, a nomination for the WAIC Outstanding Youth Paper Award in 2024, and the 2023 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
