PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Bin Yang

Also known as 杨彬

Bin Yang is a computer scientist whose current research focuses on data-driven decision intelligence for time-series and spatio-temporal data. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Northwestern Polytechnical University and a doctorate at Fudan, then worked at Max Planck and Aarhus before becoming a professor at Aalborg. With collaborators, he coauthored EcoTour, which used vehicle GPS and CAN bus data to compare routes, and AutoCTS for correlated time-series forecasting. As of October 2026, he is a Chair Professor at East China Normal University.

Works
291
Citations
6,863
h-index
51
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2004–2010

    Degrees at two universities

    He earns bachelor's and master's degrees at Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2004 and 2007, then completes a PhD at Fudan University in 2010.

  2. August 2010–July 2014

    German and Danish research groups

    At Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, he works in the Databases and Information Systems department headed by Gerhard Weikum from August 2010 to August 2011. From September 2011 to July 2014, he works at Aarhus University in the Data-Intensive Systems group headed by Christian S. Jensen.

  3. 2013

    EcoTour and an MDM award

    EcoTour assigns eco-weights to road segments from vehicle GPS and CAN bus data, then returns eco-friendly, shortest, and fastest routes in Denmark. At IEEE MDM 2013, he shares the best paper award with Manohar Kaul and Christian S. Jensen.

  4. 2014–2018

    Professor at Aalborg

    He joins Aalborg University in August 2014 and becomes a full professor in the Department of Computer Science in 2018.

  5. 2018

    A Sapere Aude award

    He receives the Sapere Aude Research Leader award from Independent Research Fund Denmark in 2018.

  6. 2022

    AutoCTS forecasting method

    He coauthors AutoCTS, an automated method for correlated time-series forecasting, published in PVLDB in 2022.

  7. June 2026

    Predicting crystal properties

    In June 2026, he coauthors a semi-supervised framework for crystal-property prediction with consistency regularization.

  8. As of October 2026

    Chair Professor at ECNU

    As of October 2026, he is Chair Professor at East China Normal University's School of Data Science and Engineering. His research focuses on data-driven decision intelligence for time-series and spatio-temporal data.

Career

  1. Since 2022East China Normal UniversityChair Professor
  2. 2024–2026University of Science and Technology Liaoning
  3. 2022–2025University of Stuttgart
  4. 2019–2023Tsinghua University
  5. 2015–2019Rakuten
  6. 2014–2018Aalborg UniversityFull Professor
  7. 2012–2014Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  8. 2011–2014Aarhus University
  9. 2010–2011Max Planck Institute for Informatics
  10. 2010–2012University of Tokyo

Education

  1. 2010Fudan UniversityPhD
  2. 2007Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 2004Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Outlier Detection for Time Series with Recurrent Autoencoder Ensembles2019 · International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 282 citations
  2. Outlier Detection for Multidimensional Time Series Using Deep Neural Networks2018 · IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management · 208 citations
  3. Personalized route recommendation using big trajectory data2015 · International Conference on Data Engineering · 207 citations
  4. Multivariate Time Series Forecasting With Dynamic Graph Neural ODEs2022 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 182 citations
  5. Bayesian Differential Privacy on Correlated Data2015 · ACM-SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data · 178 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 18 October 2026.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 3% to 32%Includes Aalborg University. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 3% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  2. Stanford University trained or employed 27 of the 111 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Tsinghua University. Stanford University trained or employed 27 of the 111 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and employment links for major-prize and best-paper winners.
  3. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Max Planck Society. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.
  4. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes Max Planck Society. We estimate how 12,774 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.

Colleagues

People named in this biography, and people with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Bin Yang - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Welcome to Bin Yang's Homepage homes.cs.aau.dk. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. EcoTour: Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Vehicles Using Eco-routes vbn.aau.dk. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. 数据科学与工程学院 faculty.ecnu.edu.cn. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Bin Yang's Homepage binyangdk.github.io. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. Bin Yang - Aalborg University's Research Portal vbn.aau.dk. Checked 18 October 2026.
  7. Tutorials | ADC 2026 adc-conference.github.io. Checked 18 October 2026.