Email: liyangnpu AT nwpu dot edu dot cn

Bio highlights:

• Key Laboratory of Information Fusion Technology of the Ministry of Education
• Xi'an Key Laboratory of UAV Information Security
• Shaanxi Intelligent Equipment System Security Control Engineering Center
• Automation Society Member
• IEEE Member
• Postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2019)
• Joint research fellow at Singapore's A*STAR High Performance Computing Research Center (2020)

Full Bio

Yang Li is an associate professor with the School of Automation at Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China. After receiving his bachelor's and doctoral degrees from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2014 and 2018 respectively, he worked as a research fellow in SenticTeam under Professor Erik Cambria at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Also, he was an adjunct research fellow at the A *STAR High-Performance Computing Institute (IHPC). His research interests are Adversarial Attacks and Defense in AI, UAV Security, NLP, Recommender Systems, Explainable Artificial Intelligence, etc. He has led multiple national-level projects and actively reviews several journals, e.g., INFORM FUSION, IEEE TAFF, NEUCOM, KBS, KAIS, etc. He is also an advisory board member of Socio-Affective Computing and the guest editor of Future Generation Computer Systems and Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety.

Research Interests

• Artificial Intelligence Security
• UAV Security
• Recommender Systems
• Natural Language Processing

Multiple Master Positions Available

I have several master student positions in the area of adversarial artificial intelligence, UAV security and natural language processing. Students with strong backgrounds in artificial intelligence, information security, mathematics, statistics and programming are encouraged to apply. If interested in the position, please send me a resume with your transcript.

Professional Service

Guest Editor:

• (Finished) Future-Generation Attack and Defense in Neural Networks @ Future Generation Computer Systems
• (Ongoing) Explicable Artificial Intelligence for Affective Computing @ IEEE Intelligent Systems
• (Ongoing) Cybersecurity of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles @ Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety
• (Ongoing) Artificial Intelligence Security @ Mathematics
• (Ongoing) 分布式无人系统协同感知和规划 @ 海军航空大学学报

Associate Editor:

• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
• Progress in Artificial Intelligence

Orginizer:

• PC of Computation and Written Language (CAWL) @ COLING 2024
• SENTIRE @ ICDM 2021-2023
• PC of International Workshop on Private, Secure, and Trustworthy AI (PriST-AI) @ ESORICS 2023
• 对抗性人工智能前沿分论坛 @ 中国无人机安全高峰论坛 2023
• Session Chair of 3rd Asia Conference on Computers and Communications 2022
• Area Chair of IJCNLP @ ACL 2021

Reviewer:

• TNNLS, TIP, TIFS, KBS, Neurocomputing, Information Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, TAI, TKDD, etc.

News

• 10/2024 One paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
• 06/2024 One paper accepted by IEEE Sensors Journal.
• 02/2024 One paper accepted by Computational Intelligence Magazine.
• 12/2023 Orginized the workshop of SENTIRE at ICDM 2023 in Shanghai.
• 11/2023 Congrats to Xiangjuan and Zhaoxuan Won the National Scholarship.
• 10/2023 One paper accepted by TGARS.
• 09/2023 The student guided won the Gold Award in China International "Internet plus" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Shaanxi Division.
• 09/2023 One paper accepted by Pattern Recognition.