Yang Shi
Ph.D. Student, North Carolina State University
Education:
PhD student in CS, North Carolina State University, 2019 - present.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas W. Price.
PhD student in CS, University of Georgia, 2017 - 2019.
MS in CS, University of Georgia, 2015 - 2017.
Advisor: Dr. WenZhan Song
Committee: Dr. Hamid Arabnia, Dr. Tianming Liu.
BEng in Automation, Central South University, 2011 - 2015.
Research Interests:
Computer Science Education
Educational Data Mining
Unstructured Data Analysis
Github, Google Scholar, Google Calendar, LinkedIn
Teaching:
CSC 116: Introduction to Programming -- Java (Summer 2021).
Office hours: Please book an appointment here (My slots are Wednesday 8 AM and Thursday 8 PM).
News
05/10/2021: I was awarded a Summer Graduate Merit Award by College of Engineering, NC State. Thank you!
04/15/2021: I will give a presentation about our LAK paper in Department of Computer Science, NC State.
04/09/2021: Three papers about student bug detection, performance prediction, and progress detection are accepted as full (2) / short (1) papers in the 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021).
02/25/2021: I will be serving as a Summer Instructor for Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.
02/12/2021: I will be co-organizing the 5th CSEDM Workshop during the EDM 2021.
01/14/2021: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
01/13/2021: One paper: "Toward Semi-Automatic Misconception Discovery Using Code Embeddings" is accepted in The 11th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 21).
11/10/2020: 4th CSEDM Workshop Proceedings now published available at CEUR-WS.
11/04/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
10/03/2020: One paper: "TEST_POSITIVE at W-NUT 2020 Shared Task-3: Joint Event Multi-task Learning for Slot Filling in Noisy Text" is accepted in The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text at EMNLP 2020.
08/21/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society.
08/10/2020: I served as a Reviewer for IEEE Sensors 2020 conference.
07/10/2020: I served as a co-organizer of 4th CSEDM Workshop. Thanks for joining us!
07/06/2020: One paper: "Comparing Feature Engineering Approaches to Predict Complex Programming Behaviors" is accepted in 4th CSEDM Workshop.
04/20/2020: I will be co-organizing the 4th CSEDM Workshop during the EDM 2020.
04/01/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Network Magazine.
02/23/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. (IEEE TSIPN)
02/06/2020: I will be serving as a Summer Instructor for Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.
01/31/2020: I was awarded $6,000 Research Credits from Amazon Web Services for the proposal of CS Educational Data Representation Research. Thank you Amazon!
01/07/2020: I attended the Natural Language Processing Winter School hosted by Duke University.
11/18/2019: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Access Journal.
08/13/2019: I transferred to NC State University starting Fall 2019. I appreciate all help that I received from my Alma Mater, University of Georgia.
06/28/2019: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Sensors 2019 conference.
05/19/2019: One paper: "Energy Audition based Cyber-Physical Attack Detection System in IoT" has been orally presented in ACM TURC SIGMOBILE CHINA.
05/13/2019: I joined Stratifyd Inc. as a Research Scientist Intern from May 2019 to August 2019.
03/22/2019: One paper: "Energy Audition based Cyber-Physical Attack Detection System in IoT" is accepted in ACM TURC SIGMOBILE CHINA. (37% acceptance rate; 103/278 full papers, oral presentation)
02/12/2019: One paper: "Enhanced Cyber-physical Security in Internet of Things through Energy Auditing" is accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. (IEEE IOTJ)
02/01/2019: One paper: "System Statistics Learning-Based IoT Security: Feasibility and Suitability" is accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. (IEEE IOTJ, 2019 Impact factor: 9.515)
07/18/2018: I attended IEEE/EMBS EMBC 2018 and made an oral presentation (Slides).
06/29/2018: I received the Graduate School Travel Award for IEEE/EMBS EMBC 2018 from UGA.
04/08/2018: One paper: "Dynamic Time-frequency Feature Extraction for Brain Activity Recognition" is accepted by IEEE/EMBS EMBC 2018 for oral presentation.
02/13/2018: One WIP paper "PoTrojan: powerful neural-level trojan designs in deep learning models" received media coverage from The Register.
Awards
AWS Credits for Research, Amazon Inc., $6,000, Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Graduate School Traveling Award, University of Georgia, $600, Jul 2018
Motto
Success = Self-discipline + Confidence + Motivation
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