Biography
Professor Lanyu Shang earned her Ph.D. in information sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to this, she received an M.S. in Data Science from New York University and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interest lies in human-centric AI, human-AI collaboration, social media analysis, AI for social good, and applied AI. Her work has been published in top venues in data mining and machine learning/AI, such as The WebConf, ICWSM, AAAI, IJCAI, and IEEE Big Data. She is also the recipient of the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE ASONAM 2022, the Best Paper Honorable Mention at IEEE SmartComp 2022, the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award from the University of Notre Dame, and the N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship.