Professor of Computer Science Western Michigan University
Li Yang is a professor of computer science at Western Michigan University. He earned his Ph.D. degree at the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992 and completed his postdoctoral training at research institutions of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995. He was a member of technical staff at the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore before he joined WMU faculty in 2000 as an assistant professor. He has become a professor of computer science at WMU since 2007.
His research work began with image database and information systems, semantic data models, semantic pattern recognition, and has migrated to include knowledge discovery, visualization and mining of large data sets, exploration of data mining results, and manifold learning.
He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.