Yang Liu
Professor, Physics and Computer Science
yangliu@wlu.ca
548-889-3912
Waterloo, Ontario
Faculty of Science
Yang Liu is an expert in data analysis, deep learning, machine learning and recommender system.
Areas of Expertise
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Data Science, Analytics and Statistics
Biography
I completed my Ph.D. at York University in 2008. Following that, I was at Shandong University, holding positions as an Associate Professor and Full Professor from 2009 to 2017, prior to my role at Laurier.
My research interests generally include machine learning, data analysis, deep learning, and recommender system, with an emphasis on designing new algorithms and models for managing and mining social and urban spatio-temporal data.
Recently, I am focusing on the following research directions:
- Data analytics and machine learning (e.g., deep learning and AI, recommender and filtering systems, interpretability of deep models, Web personalization)
- Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, text mining, image processing)
- Efficient data processing (e.g., database systems, indexing and query optimization)
- Applications (e.g., urban computing systems, social media)