Awards
Awards
Research Awards
Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals, IEEE Computing Society, 2025
- Dr. Yang has been named by the IEEE Computer Society as one of the recipients of Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2025! This esteemed group of rising stars earned this honor for their exceptional early-career achievements and role in driving advancements across the computing landscape. Their contributions span diverse areas, including AI, software engineering, security, and hardware, fundamentally shaping the future of technology. (News link)
World's Top 2% Scientists, Canada, 2024 and 2025
- Dr. Yang has been named by Stanford University on the World's Top 2% Scientists List for 2025! He's ranked 752nd (Top 0.3%) among more than 200,000 researchers globally (and 27th in Canada) in the 'Networking & Telecommunications' field. (His personal page)
Top Scholar (Top 0.5%), ScholarGPS, 2024 and 2025
- Named in ScholarGPS Top 0.5% Scholar List for 2024 and 2025. Top Scholars: Those whose scholarly contributions rank them within the top 0.5% of all scholars (over 30 million) worldwide, according to the most recent 2024 ScholarGPS rankings.
ESI 1% Highly Cited Papers, Web of Science, 2025
- Two papers have been recognized as ESI Top 1% Highly Cited Papers in 2025.
- On hyperparameter optimization of machine learning algorithms: Theory and practice
- MTH-IDS: A Multitiered Hybrid Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Vehicles
- ESI Highly Cited Papers are research articles that rank in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, based on data from the Web of Science Core Collection.
Best Paper Award, Autonomous Cyber Workshop, ACM CCS 2024
- The paper "Towards Autonomous Cybersecurity: An Intelligent AutoML Framework for Autonomous Intrusion Detection" won the Best Paper Award in the Workshop on AutonomousCyber, ACM CCS 2024 (a Top-3 Cybersecurity Conference Internationally).
Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research, London, Canada, 2022
- Recognized as one of the top three most outstanding graduate students with excellent research achievement among hundreds of graduate students in the ECE Department at Western University.
Graduate Symposium Award for Best Presentation, London, Canada, 2022
- Recognized for delivering the best presentation at the ECE Annual Graduate Symposium (Software Engineering Sessions) at Western University among approximately 50 presentations given by graduate students.
Top 10 Most Popular AI Research Aug 2022
- The 1st-author paper "LCCDE: A Decision-Based Ensemble Framework for Intrusion Detection in The Internet of Vehicle" was selected by the Reddit-Machine Learning Community as one of the Top-10 Most Popular AI Research in the world in Aug 2022. [Link]
The OC2 Lab Industrial Research Excellence Award, London, Canada, 2020
The OC2 Lab Research Excellence Award, London, Canada, 2020
Undergraduate Scholarships, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 2013 and 2014
Service Awards
Outstanding Volunteer Award, IEEE London, 2023. [PDF]
- Outstanding Volunteer Award For the role in organizing the Computer and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Societies chapter activities as the Chapter Vice Chair in the IEEE London Section.