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Yang Zhang
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Data Science

The Anuradha and Vikas Sinha Department of Data Science, College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics
University of North Texas, USA

We are currently inviting applications from highly motivated PhD students for fully funded positions in our research team under my supervision.

Our Lab: https://www.idealab-coi.com/people

News!

[08/2026] Our Research Paper, Lexical Perturbations Disrupt LLM Reasoning: An Empirical Study of Attention Diversion, has been accepted for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Main Conference. (CSRankings, CORE A*, CCF-B).

[08/2026] Our Research Paper, MetaGAI: A Large-Scale and High-Quality Benchmark for Generative AI Model and Data Card Generation, has been accepted for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Findings. (CSRankings, CORE A*, CCF-B).

[08/2026] Our Survey Paper, Puzzles to Paradigms: A Survey of Human--Agent Collaboration in Scientific Innovation, has been accepted for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026), Findings. (CSRankings, CORE A*, CCF-B).

[06/2026] Our Research Paper, Artificial intelligence-driven early screening and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer: technical innovations, clinical applications, and precision medicine strategies, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Advanced Research. (Q1, Impact Factor = 13.0, Acceptance Rate = 6.0%).

[03/2026] Serve as the Program Committee member for the 24th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2026).

[05/2026] Our Research Paper, Learning Coupled Continuous-Time Latent Dynamics from Irregular Events, has been accepted for the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026, Spotlight, Top 2.2%), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[05/2026] Our Research Paper, GLAD: Bidirectional Structure-Attribute Alignment via Latent Graph Diffusion Models, has been accepted for the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[05/2026] Our Research Paper, Joint Multi-Modal Multi-Interest Profiling and Preference-Grounded Reasoning for Explainable Recommendation, has been accepted for presentation at IJCAI-ECAI 2026 (the 35th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), (IJCAI 2026), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-B).

[03/2026] Our Research Paper, OCR-Memory: Optical Context Retrieval for Long-Horizon Agent Memory, has been accepted for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[03/2026] Our Research Paper, FedSLLM: LLM-Derived Semantic Prototypes for Sample Selection in Federated Recommendation, has been accepted for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026), Findings. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[04/2026] Serve as the Program Committee member for the IEEE International Conference on Web Services 2026 (ICWS 2026).

[03/2026] Serve as the Program Committee member for the 34th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2026 (ACM MM 2026).

[02/2026] Our Research Paper, VividFace: Real-Time and Realistic Facial Expression Shadowing for Humanoid Robots, has been accepted for the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2026), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-B).

[02/2026] Serve as the reviewer for the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2026).

[02/2026] Serve as the Program Committee member for the 32nd SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2026 (KDD2026).

[01/2026] Our Research Paper, Joint Similar User Exploration and Informative Behavior Guidance for Multi-Modal New Item Recommendation, has been accepted for The Web Conference 2026 (WWW 2026), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[01/2026] Our Research Paper, AdaQE-CG: Adaptive Query Expansion for Web-Scale Generative AI Model and Data Card Generation, has been accepted for The Web Conference 2026 (WWW 2026), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[11/2025] Our Research Paper, Plug-and-Play Parameter-Efficient Tuning of Embeddings for Federated Recommendation, has been accepted for the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), Main Technical Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[11/2025] Our Research Paper, Subspace-Aware Graph Construction and Contrastive Alignment for Multimodal Recommendation with Large Language Models, has been accepted for the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), Research Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[11/2025] Our Research Paper, Hyperbolic-Enhanced Mixture-of-Experts Mamba for Sequential Recommendation, has been accepted in the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), Research Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[11/2025] Our Research Paper, Bi-objective Optimization for Task Offloading in Vehicular Edge Metaverse, has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. (Q1, Impact Factor = 5.8, CCF-B).

[11/2025] Our Research Paper, Workflow Offloading for Energy Minimization under Deep Reinforcement Learning, has been accepted by Computing. (Springer, Q1, Impact Factor = 3.4).

[10/2025] Our Research Paper, SAFE: Harnessing LLM for Scenario-Driven ADS Testing from Multimodal Crash Data, has been accepted for the 48th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026), Research Track. (CSranking, CORE A*, CCF-A).

[09/2025] Our Research Paper, Relational Diversification-based Anti-Mapping for Concealing User Preference., has been accepted in TSINGHUA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. (Q1, Impact Factor = 3.5).

[08/2025] Our Research Paper, HRCformer: Hierarchical Recursive Convolution-Transformer with Multi-Scale Adaptive Recalibration for Time Series Forecasting., has been accepted in the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2025) (CORE A, CCF-B).

[08/2025] Our Research Paper, PKGRec: Personal Knowledge Graph Construction and Mining for Federated Recommendation Enhancement., has been accepted in the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM2025) (CORE A, CCF-B).

[07/2025] Our Research Paper, From Dispersed Records to Structured Knowledge: A Graph-based Knowledge Modeling Framework for Archival Resources, has been accepted in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS2025) (CORE A, CCF-B).

[07/2025] Our Research Paper, USFCF: Unified State-Space Feedback Control Framework for Robust Privacy-Conscious Federated Learning in Vehicular Service Networks, has been accepted in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS2025) (CORE A, CCF-B).

[06/2025] Our Research Paper, Beyond pairwise relationships: a transformer-based hypergraph learning approach for fraud detection, has been accepted in the Knowledge and Information Systems. (Impact Factor = 2.9).

[06/2025] Our Research Paper, A Systematic Review of Large Language Models in Medical Specialties: Applications, Challenges and Future Directions, has been accepted in the Information. (Impact Factor = 3.1).

[04/2025] Serve as a PC member of the 2025 ACM Multimedia.

[04/2025] Call for Papers: we are currently co-organizing a special issue "Advances in Generative AI and Computational Linguistics" on Electronics (CiteScore = 5.30, Impact Factor = 2.6)), which is a highly prestigious journal in computer science and information systems. Please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/F099JQB7H4.

[04/2025] Call for Papers: we are pleased to announce the workshop DMAIL 2025: The First International Workshop on Data Mining and AI for Law. It is a workshop of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining. Accepted research papers will be published in the ICDM 2025 proceedings. For more details, please visit: https://dmail-workshop.github.io/DMAIL2025.

[04/2025] Call for Papers: we are pleased to announce the workshop "Challenges and Innovations in Large Language Models: Reasoning, Architecture, and Beyond" at AITest 2025. Accepted research papers will be published in the AITest 2025 proceedings. For more details, please visit: https://conf.researchr.org/track/cisose-2025/ai-test2025#Workshopa

[03/2025] Call for Papers: we are currently co-organizing a special issue "Advances in Text Mining and Analytics" on Electronics (CiteScore = 5.30, Impact Factor = 2.6)), which is a highly prestigious journal in computer science and information systems. Please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/8JFY9241M8.

[03/2025] Call for Papers: we are pleased to announce the special session PSTDA2025 at ADMA 2025. Accepted research papers will be published in the ADMA 2025 proceedings. For more details, please visit: https://pstda2025.github.io/.

[02/2025] Our Research Paper, Deep Learning Meets Bibliometrics: A Survey of Citation Function Classification. , has been accepted in the Journal of Informetrics. (Q1, IF = 3.4).

[02/2025] Call for Papers: we are currently co-organizing a special issue "AI-Driven Intrusion Detection & Threat Analysis in Cybersecurity" on Computers, Materials & Continua (CiteScore = 5.30, Impact Factor = 2.1)), which is a highly prestigious journal in computer science and information systems.

[02/2025] Yang has been appointed as an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia.

[01/2025] Our Research Paper, LGL-BCI: A Motor Imagery-Based Brain-Computer Interface with Geometric Learning. , has been accepted in the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2025). (CORE A*, CCF-A, CS Ranking).

[01/2025] Our Research Paper, ExClique: An Express Consensus Algorithm for High-Speed Transaction Process in Blockchains., has been accepted in IEEE INFOCOM 2025 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM2025). (CORE A*, CCF-A).

[12/2024] Serve as a PC member of WWW2025 and WWW25 - Companion

[09/2024] Our Research Paper, TROPICAL: Transformer-based Hypergraph Learning for Camouflaged Fraudsters Detection. , has been accepted in the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2024). (CORE A*, CCF-B).

[08/2024] Serve as a Senior PC member of ADMA2024

[08/2024] Our Research Paper, Accurate and Efficient Daily Carbon Emission Forecasting based on Improved ARIMA. , has been accepted in Applied Energy, 2024. (Q1, IF = 10.1).

[07/2024] Our Research Paper, GLFNet: Global and Local Frequency-domain Network for Long-term Time Series Forecasting. , has been accepted in the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2024 (CIKM2024). (CORE A, CCF-B).

About Me

Dr. Yang Zhang is currently a Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Data Science within the Department of Data Science at the University of North Texas, USA.

Yang Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 2023. He is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Data Science within the Department of Data Science at the University of North Texas, USA. His research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), with a particular focus on Natural Language processing, Recommender Systems, Human-Computer Interaction and Robotics. Dr. Zhang's research works explore the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for advanced data mining and the development of intelligent IoT systems. His research has been published in several recognized venues e.g., ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, ICSE, UBICOMP, ICRA, INFOCOM, WWW, ACL, EMNLP, CIKM, ICDM, ICSOC, ICWS, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Journal of Advanced Research, Journal of Big Data, Scientometrics, and Journal of Informetrics.

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