Hao Yang

VP of AI Research

Research areas: Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Hao Yang, Vice President, AI.

Biography

Dr. Hao Yang joined Visa Research as a Vice President in September 2015, where he is leading a team advanced machine learning research to tackle challenging problems in the payment industry and develop the world’s best commerce intelligence engine. Prior to joining Visa, Hao was a Software Engineer at Google Research, responsible for the research and development of a diverse set of machine learning technologies including social recommendation, knowledge discovery and semantic query understanding. Before joining Google, Hao was the Principal Researcher at Nokia Research Center, leading a team of research scientists and engineers driving innovations in data mining, machine learning and real-time data processing and developing intelligent mobile services. Hao also worked as a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, focusing on distributed system technologies including stream processing, messaging and publish/subscribe systems.

He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. He received his M.S. in Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001, and B.S. in Automatic Control from University of Science and Technology of China in 1998. His research interests are in data analytics, machine learning, deep learning and distributed systems. Dr. Yang holds twelve patents and has published over 40 papers in several international conferences and journals, including International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and many more. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2008 Best Paper Award from the International Conference on Parallel Processing.

Conferences

  • Zhang, Z., Gu, Y., Ye, F., Yang, H., Kim, M., Lei, H., & Liu, Z. (2010). A Hybrid Approach to High Availability in Stream Processing Systems. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
  • He, W., Liu, X., Zheng, L., & Yang, H. (2010). Reliability Calculus: A Theoretical Framework to Analyze Communication Reliability. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems.
  • Luo, G., Tang, C., Yang, H., & Wei, X. (2008). MedSearch: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information Retrieval. ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
  • Yang, H., Ye, F., & Liu, Z. (2008). A Replication Overlay Assisted Resource Discovery Service for Federated Systems. International Conference on Parallel Processing.
  • Liu, Z., Parthasarathy, P., Ranganathan, A., & Hao, Y. (2008). Near Optimal Algorithms for Shared Filter Evaluation in Data Stream Systems. ACM International Conference on Management of Data.
  • Liu, Z., Parthasarathy, P., Ranganathan, A., & Hao, Y. (2008). A Generic Flow Algorithm for Shared Filter Ordering Problems. ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.
  • Wong, S., Yang, H., Lu, S., & Bharghavan, V. (2006). Robust rate adaptation for 802.11 wireless networks. Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.
  • Yang, H., Ye, F., Yuan, Y., Lu, S., & Arbaugh, W. (2005). Toward resilient security in wireless sensor networks. ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing.
  • Yang, H., Luo, H., Yang, Y., Lu, S., & Zhang, L. (2004). HOURS: achieving DoS resilience in an open service hierarchy. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.
  • Lou, J., Yang, H., Hu, W., & Tan, T. (2002). An Illumination Invariant Change Detection Algorithm. Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 23–25.
  • Lou, J., Yang, H., Weiming Hu, & Tieniu Tan. (2002). Visual vehicle tracking using an improved EKF. Asian Conference on Computer Vision.
  • Yang, H., Lou, J., Sun, H., Hu, W., & Tan, T. (2001). Visual vehicle tracking using an improved EKF. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.

Patents

  • Yang, H. & Dong, L. (2015). Estimating the geographical position of an apparatus based on its proximity to other apparatuses. U.S. Patent No. 9,161,162. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Liu, Z., Yang, H., & Ye, F. (2014). Method and system for resilient packet traceback in wireless mesh and senor networks. U.S. Patent No. 8,695,089. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Kim, M., Liu, Z., Parthasarathy, S., Pendarakis, D., & Yang, H. (2014). Method and apparatus for association control in mobile wireless networks. U.S. Patent No. 8,625,538. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Karenos, K., Kim, M., Lei, H., Pendarakis, D., Yang, H., & Ye, F. (2013). System and method for providing quality of service in wide area messaging fabric. U.S. Patent No. 8,489,722. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Hawkins, J. C., Parr, F. N., & Yang, H. (2013). Message brokering in a consuming broker device. U.S. Patent No. 8,423,619. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Bauer, D., Dragicevic, K., Garces-Erice, L., Kim, M., Lei, H., & Yang, H. (2012). Semantic matching of federation intents and services capabilities in a planning system for automatic service federation. U.S. Patent No. 8,250,185. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Liu, Z., Parthasarathy, S., Ranganathan, A., & Yang, H. (2012). Method and system for semantic publish-subscribe services. U.S. Patent No. 8,112,416. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Liu, Z., Parthasarathy, S., Ranganathan, S., & Yang, H. (2011). Processing overlapping continuous queries. U.S. Patent No. 8,055,653. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Liu, Z., Yang, H., & Ye, F. (2010). Method and system for federated resource discovery service in distributed systems. U.S. Patent No. 7,849,069. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Dettori, P., Fu, Z., Nogima, J., Schaffa, F. A., Wu, C. W., Westerink, P. H., & Yang, H. (2010). Resource allocation in peer-to-peer streaming. U.S. Patent No. 7,848,355. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Bharghavan, V., Wong, H. Y. S., Yang, H., & Lu, S. (2010). Wireless rate adaptation. U.S. Patent No. 7,808,908. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  • Liu, Z., Xia, H., Yang, H., & Ye, F. (2009). System and apparatus for optimally trading off the replication overhead and consistency level in distributed applications. U.S. Patent No. 7,506,011. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.