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Professor Jian Yang
Program Leader: Social Network and Big Data Analytics
School of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia
Professor Jian Yang is a full professor at the School of Computing, Macquarie University. She received her PhD in Multidatabase Systems area from The Australian National University in 1995. Before she joined MacquarieUniversity, she worked as an associate professor at Tilburg University, Netherlands (2000-2003), a senior research scientist at the Division of Mathematical and Information Science, CSIRO, Australia (1998-2000), and as a lecturer (assistant professor) at Dept of Computer Science, The Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales (1993-1998).
Professor Jian Yang has published papers in international journals and conferences such as IEEE transactions, Information Systems, Data & Knowledge Engineering, CACM, VLDB, ICDCS, CAiSE, CoopIS, CIKM, etc. She has served as a program committee member in various international conferences such as ICDE, CAiSE, ER, CoopIS, ICSOC, BPM, ICWS, SCC, WISE, WAIM, etc. She is also a regular reviewer for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge & Data Engineering, Data & Knowledge Engineering, VLDB Journal, IEEE Internet Computing, etc. She has served as conference/program co-chairs of ICSOC and BPM. Currently, she is on the steering committee of the International Conference on Service Computing (ICSOC).
Her main research interests are: social network, big data analytics, web service technology; business process management; interoperability, trust in social networks, and e-commerce.