Biographical information

Dr. Jian Yang is a full professor at Department of Computing, Macquarie University. She received her PhD in Multidatabase Systems area  from The Australian National University in 1995. Before she joined Macquarie University, 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).

Dr. Yang has published papers in the international journals and conferences such as IEEE transactions, Information Systems, Data & Knowledge Engineering, CACM, VLDB, ICDCS, CAiSE, CoopIS, CIKM, etc. She has served as 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 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;

Publications

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Selected Recent Publications

• Nugroho, Robertus, Jian Yang, Weiliang Zhao, Cecile Paris, and Surya Nepal, "What and With Whom? Identifying Topics in Twitter Through Both Interactions and Text," in IEEE Transactions on Services Computing , vol.PP, no.99, pp.1-1 doi: 10.1109/TSC.2017.2696531
  keywords: {Australia;Indexes;Real-time systems;Semantics;Sparse matrices;Tagging;Twitter;Joint-NMF;Topic Derivation;Tweets Interactions;Twitter}
• Nugroho, Robertus, Weiliang Zhao, Jian Yang, Cecile Paris, and Surya Nepal., 2017. Using time-sensitive interactions to improve topic derivation in twitter. World Wide Web, 20(1), pp.61-87.
• Zheng, Huiyuan, Jian Yang, and Weiliang Zhao. "Probabilistic QoS aggregations for service composition." ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) 10, no. 2 (2016): 12
• Sun, Yutian, Jianwen Su, and Jian Yang. "Universal artifacts: a new approach to business process management (BPM) systems." ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) 7, no. 1 (2016): 3.
• Nugroho, Robertus, Weiliang Zhao, Jian Yang, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, and Yan Mei. "Time-sensitive topic derivation in twitter." In International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, pp. 138-152. Springer, Cham, 2015 [Best Paper Award]
• Sun, Yutian, Jianwen Su, and Jian Yang. "Separating execution and data management: A key to business-process-as-a-service (BPaaS)." In International Conference on Business Process Management, pp. 374-382. Springer, Cham, 2014.
• Sun, Yutian, Jianwen Su, Budan Wu, and Jian Yang. "Modeling data for business processes." In Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014 IEEE 30th International Conference on, pp. 1048-1059. IEEE, 2014.

Teaching

• Introduction to Business Information Systems (ISYS104)
• Project Management (ISYS302)
• Enterprise System Integration (ISYS301)

Projects

• Security in the Cloud, in collaboration with CSIRO Data61
• Influence analysis in social network, in collaboration with CSIRO Data61
• Federated Cloud Services Configuration and Orchestration, ARC Discovery Project DP140101369
• From Data to Artefact: a Key Ingredient in Service Interoperation, ARC Discovery Project DP140101369
• A Personalized Social Network Based Location Search and Recommender System, ARC Linkage Project LP120200231

Looking for PhD students in the following areas:

• social networks: recommendation, influence analysis, trust
• business process management: process analytics, cognitive BPM
• service management

Available scholarships:

• Government funded main round scholarships such as the Research Training Program (RTP) for domestic candidates and the Research Training Program (iRTP) for international candidates.
• Macquarie University Research Training Program (MQRTP) and International Macquarie University Research Training Program (iMQRTP).
• Co-funded i/MQRTP scholarships which may be available to cotutelle and joint PhD candidates.
• Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC)