Yan Wang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing at Macquarie University, Australia. He obtained his PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China, and has been at Macquarie since 2003 following a postdoctoral fellowship at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on trust management, recommender systems, social networks, and services computing, with a strong emphasis on applications in cyber security and data analytics. Wang has published extensively in top-tier venues like AAAI, IJCAI, and IEEE Transactions, and has led over 25 research projects, including current initiatives like Trust-Oriented Data Analytics in Online Social Networks (DP230100676) and Combating Fake News on Social Media (2020–2023). He has received prestigious awards such as the IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Service Award (2017) and the Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence in Research Supervision Award (2014). He serves on editorial boards of journals like IEEE Transactions on Services Computing and has organized major conferences including IEEE ATC2013 and IEEE CLOUD2017. His work bridges theoretical advancements in machine learning and practical challenges in social computing, edge computing, and federated learning. Affiliations: School of Computing, Data Horizons Research Centre, Frontier AI Research Centre Key Projects: Trust-Oriented Data Analytics in Online Social Networks (2023–2026) Combating Fake News on Social Media (2020–2023) Research Themes: Recommender systems, graph learning, fake news detection, and trust management in distributed systems. Wang’s recent work explores causal representation learning, cross-domain recommendations, and privacy-preserving techniques in edge computing environments.







