Yu Yang

Dr. Yu Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. His research focuses on graph representation learning, spatiotemporal data analysis, urban computing, and learning analytics.

• Recent Contributions: Co-authored two papers at the 2024 Australasian Database Conference during a three-week visit to the CIRES Centre, applying graph-based methods to computer vision and recommendation systems.
• Collaboration: Scheduled for a longer return visit to the CIRES Centre in 2025 to advance ongoing research partnerships.

The papers presented at the conference reflect his expertise in graph neural networks, multi-modal learning, and spatiotemporal modeling, with applications in person re-identification and cold-start recommendation challenges.