杨强教授现任香港科技大学计算机学系教授、系主任。

杨强教授于1982年毕业于北京大学，获得天体物理学学士学位。分别于1985年、1987年，在马里兰大学获得计算机科学和天体物理学硕士学位，并于1989年在马里兰大学帕克学院获得计算机科学博士学位。

杨强教授是人工智能领域学术界的领军人物，华人界唯一的国际人工智能协会 (AAAI)councilor，IEEE 大数据期刊主编，ACM 杰出科学家。两次获得国际数据挖掘领域最高级别竞赛 KDD Cup 世界冠军。杨强教授发表论文 400 多篇，被引用超过 20000 次。

研究领域包括：

·                     Transfer Learning

·                     Machine Learning,

·                     Planning,

·                     Data Mining

所获奖项及荣誉：

·         AAAI Fellow (2013 - ) Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intellignecefor significant contributions to AI Planning, Data Mining and Case-based Reasoning

·         AAAS Fellow (2012 - ) American Association for the Advancement of Sciencefor significant contributions to Data Mining, Learning and Planning: theory, applications, and services

·         IAPR Fellow (2012 -) International Association of Pattern Recognitionfor significant contributions to Data Mining and Transfer Learning

·         IEEE Fellow (2009 - ) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineersfor Significant Contributions to the Understanding and Application of Intelligent Planning, Learning and Data Mining

·         ACM Distinguished Scientist (2011 - ) Association of Computing Machinery, Link to ACM

·         Two champions out of three dedicated tasks in Nokia Mobile Data Challenge (Nokia MDC), 2012: seeAnnouncement.

·         ACM CIKM-2011 Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award: Ou Jin, Nathan Nan Liu, Yong Yu and Qiang Yang.Transferring Topical Knowledge from Auxiliary Long Text for Short Text Understanding. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (ACM CIKM 2011). Glasgow, UK. Oct 2011.

·         Third place in the rating prediction of ACM KDDCUP 2011, Yahoo! Music Recommendation Challenge (Team Coach of Inner Peace team) (more info)

·         Champion (Team Coach) of the 2005 ACM KDDCUP Competition on all three performance metrics. See related news item at the university and at KDNuggets. (Also see: our system demonstration:http://q2c.cs.ust.hk/q2c/)

·         Co-Champion for the System ARMS (with Kangheng Wu and Yunfei Jiang) for learning planning models

·         First International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, ICAPS 2005, Monterey, CA, USA

·         Champion (Team Coach, Tied for #1 Overall) of the 2004 ACM KDDCUP Competition

·         Co-winner of the 1996 Automated Software Engineering Conference best paper award

·         Co-winner of the 1994 Canadian AI Conference, best paper award

    杨强教授 邮箱：qyang@ust.hk