Yao-Yi Chiang

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Data Science

Contact

5-191 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
200 Union Street Se
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Yao-Yi Chiang

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Data Science

Research

Chiang’s research lies at the intersection of computer science and spatial sciences. He builds algorithms and intelligent systems for discovering, collecting, fusing, and analyzing data from heterogeneous sources to solve real-world problems. Recently, the work has focused on developing machine learning frameworks that exploit unique spatial data properties and prior structural knowledge to tackle problems in natural language processing, computer vision, and spatiotemporal data prediction and forecasting.

Research Division
Data Science and Machine Learning

Current Research
Google Scholar
Knowledge Computing Lab

Ph.D. Graduates
Lois Park (2022, University of Southern California); Johanna Avelar Portillo (2021, University of Southern California).

Recent News

Yao-Yi Chiang, Chang Ge Support NSF Convergence Accelerator Phase 1 Project at UMN
CS&E’s Yao-Yi Chiang and Jina Kim Named to First DEI Committee for ACM SIGSPATIAL
Meet the Faculty - Yao-Yi Chiang
Yao-Yi Chiang Receives $3.2M in Funding to Leverage AI in Predicting Mineral Deposits
AI-CLIMATE Institute: Curbing Climate Change with Artificial Intelligence
CS&E makes big showing at IEEE BigData 2021
Spatial AI expert to join CS&E faculty this fall
University of Minnesota’s Knowledge Computing Lab turns location data into time-saving tools
USC Wins DARPA Map Feature Extraction Challenge

Biography

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Southern California (2010)
M.A. in Computer Science, University of Southern California (2004)
B.B.A. in Information Management, National Taiwan University (2000)

Professional Background

Yao-Yi Chiang joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2021 as an associate professor. He received his M.S. (2004) and Ph.D. (2010) degrees in computer science from the University of Southern California. Chiang also currently serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Information Science and Engineering and as an Editorial Board Member for Transactions in Geographic Information Systems. Prior to joining the University, he served as a senior software engineer for Fetch Technologies and Geosemble Technologies, a visiting researcher for Google AI, and as a machine learning consultant for Facebook.

Teaching