Yanan Wang

I am currently an assistant professor of information systems in the College of Business, The University of Texas at Arlington. My research spans the general areas of Information Systems (IS), Computer Science (CS), and Marketing (MKT). My current research focuses on Trustworthy A(G)I. The following are some specific areas of my current research:

• Security and privacy of (Generative) AI [4]

• Aligning (Generative) AI with humans [1, 2, 5]

• Responsible (Generative) AI application [3, 6]

Across my research, I develop novel AI methods (e.g., Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Deep Learning) to address the business and societal challenges. 

Prior to joining UT Arlington, I received my PhD degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Arizona.

I am open to collaboration, you can reach me by email at first_name + '.' + last_name + '@uta.edu'.

Selected Journal Publications

1. Yanan Wang, Yong Ge. "Align Generative Artificial Intelligence with Human Preferences: A Novel Large Language Model Fine-Tuning Method for Online Review Management". Information Systems Research (ISR), forthcoming. 

2. Yanan Wang, Yong Ge, Zhepeng Li, Li Li, and Rui Chen. "M3Rec: A Context-aware Offline Meta-level Model-based Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cold-Start Recommendation." ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) vol. 42, no. 6, 2024.

3. Yanan Wang, Tong Xu, Xin Niu, Chang Tan, Enhong Chen, and Hui Xiong. "STMARL: A spatio-temporal multi-agent reinforcement learning approach for cooperative traffic light control." IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) vol. 21, no. 06, pp. 2228-2242, 2022.

Selected Working Papers

4. Yanan Wang, Yong Ge. "Security of Recommender System: Adversarial Attack and Vulnerability Estimation". Minor Revision at Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ)

5. Zhaoqi Yang, Yanan Wang and Yong Ge. "Short-Video Recommendation under Immersive Experience: Addressing Length Effect, Dual-Source Uncertainty, and Two-Timescale Preference Dynamics" Major Revision at Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ)

6. Responsible LLM for Mental Health Support (Sole author)