Christopher Yang's
Biography
Christopher C. Yang is an associate professor in the College of Information Science and
Technology at Drexel University.
He has also been an associate professor in the Department of Systems Engineering and
Engineering Management and the director of the Digital Library Laboratory
at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, an
assistant professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Information Systems at the University
of Hong Kong and a research scientist in the Department of Management Information
Systems at the University of Arizona.
His recent research interests include social media analytics, Web 2.0, health
informatics, Web search and mining, cross-lingual information retrieval and
knowledge management, security informatics, information visualization, text
summarization, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and electronic
commerce. He has published over 160 referred journal and conference
papers in Journal of the American Society
for Information Science and Technology (JASIST),
Decision Support Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation,
IEEE Computer, Intelligent Systems, Information
Processing and Management (IPM), Journal of Information Science, Graphical Models and Image Processing, Optical Engineering, Pattern Recognition, International Journal of Electronic Commerce,
Applied Artificial Intelligence, ISI, WWW,
SIGIR, ICIS, CIKM, and
more. He has edited several special issues on multilingual information
systems, knowledge management, Web mining, social media, and electronic
commerce in JASIST, DSS, IPM,
and IEEE Transactions. He
chaired and served in many international conferences and workshops. He
has also frequently served as an invited panelist in the NSF and other
government agencies review panels.
Professional
Services (recent):
Program co-chair, International Conference on Electronic
Commerce 2009 (ICEC 2009)
Track co-chair, International Conference on Information
Systems 2009 (ICIS 2009)
Program vice-chair, ACM 18th Conference on
Information and Knowledge Management 2009 (CIKM 2009)
Workshop co-chair, ACM SIGKDD Workshop on CyberSecurity and
Intelligence Informatics 2009 (CSI-KDD)
Workshop co-chair, Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and
Security Informatics 2009 (PAISI
2009)
Program co-chair, IEEE International Conference on
Intelligence and Security Informatics 2008 (IEEE ISI 2008)
Area Chair, Asia Information Retrieval Symposium 2008
Guest co-editor, IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A, Special
Issues on Social Media Analytics: Understanding the Pulse of the Society
Guest co-editor, IEEE
Transactions on Service Computing, Special Issue on Service-Oriented
Architecture and Electronic Commerce
Guest co-editor, Information
Processing & Management, Special
Issue on Managing and Mining Multilingual Documents