My name is Yang Yang. I am currently a second year PhD student at the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway, supervised by Prof. Edward Curry. Previously, I received my Master’s degree from the Computer Science department at Nankai University, supervised by Prof. Wei Shen.

My research interests lie in Open Knowledge Base. You can find my CV here: Yang Yang’s Curriculum Vitae. If you are interested in my work, please feel free to drop me an email.

🔥 News

• 2024.04: 🎉 Ono paper is accepted by TEXT2KG Workshop 2024, co-located with ESWC
• 2023.05: 🎉 Two papers are accepted by IEEE BigData 2023
• 2023.09: I join Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics as a PhD student in Ireland!
• 2022.08: 🎉 One paper is accepted by ACM SIGKDD
• 2021.03: 🎉 One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

📝 Publications

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Open Knowledge Base

• TEXT2KG 2024 Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization: Techniques and Challenges, Yang Yang*, Edward Curry
• ACM-SIGKDD 2022 Multi-View Clustering for Open Knowledge Base Canonicalization, Wei Shen, Yang Yang*, Yinan Liu

Data Space

• IEEE-BigData 2023 Enabling Dataspaces Using Foundation Models: Technical, Legal and Ethical Considerations and Future Trends, Mohan Timilsina, Samuele Buosi, Ping Song, Yang Yang, Rafiqul Haque, Edward Curry
• IEEE-BigData 2023 Foundation Data Space Models: Bridging the Artificial Intelligence and Data Ecosystems (Vision Paper), Edward Curry, Tarek Zaarour, Yang Yang, Mohan Timilsina, Majjed Al-Qatf, Rafiqul Haque

Entity Linking

• IEEE-TKDE 2021 Toward Tweet Entity Linking with Heterogeneous Information Networks, Wei Shen, Yuwei Yin, Yang Yang, Jiawei Han, Jianyong Wang, Xiaojie Yuan

📖 Educations

• 2023.09 - Now, PhD student, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at University of Galway, with supervisor: Prof. Edward Curry.
• 2019.09 - 2022.06, Master, Nankai University, with supervisor: Prof. Wei Shen.
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, Undergraduate, Dalian University of Technology.

💻 Experience

• 2024.06, International Semantic Web Research Summer School (ISWS), Bertinoro, Italy.

📞 Contact

• Email: yang.yang@insight-centre.org
• Address: Insight SFI Research Center for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Lower Dangan, Galway, H91 AEX4, Ireland.