Ph.D. student
Computer and Information Science and Engineering
College of Engineering,
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Office: E403 CSE Building
Phone: (352)327-2007
Yang Chen is a first-year Ph.D. student at CISE, University of Florida. His research interest lies in large-scale machine learning, probabilistic graphical models and database systems. Yang is currently working on the ProbKB project led by Dr. Daisy Zhe Wang.
Yang received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China (2007-2011).
News
- [New!] Check our new group website!
- [New!] Our paper Automatic Knowledge Base Construction using Probabilistic Extraction, Deductive Reasoning, and Human Feedback was accepted as a poster to AKBC-WEKEX 2012.
Honors and Awards
- University of Florida Graduate School Fellowship Award, 2011
- Chinese National Scholarship, 2010
Research
- ProbKB: Large-scale Probabilistic Reasoning over Uncertain Knowledge Bases
Advisor: Dr. Daisy Zhe Wang
OWL: Web Ontology Language
Publications
Conference Papers
Real-time Large-scale Probabilistic Risk Analysis
(Submitted to VLDB 2012)
Workshops and Short Papers
Automatic Knowledge Base Construction Using Probabilistic Extraction, Deductive Reasoning, and Human Feedback [pdf][poster]
Proceedings of NAACL-HLT, 2012, short paper
Teaching
- COP5725, Database Management Systems, Fall 2012
- COP3275, Computer Programming Using C, Summer 2012
- CIS4301, Information and Database Systems I, Spring 2012
- COP4600, Operating Systems, Fall 2011