PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Chenggang Yan

Also known as Chenggang Clarence Yan, C. Yan, Chengang Yan, Chenggang YAN

Chenggang Yan is an AI researcher at Hangzhou Dianzi University whose work spans computer vision, intelligent information processing, and video coding. He earned computer science degrees at Shandong University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, then held research posts at Microsoft Research Asia and Tsinghua. At Hangzhou Dianzi, he became a professor and lab director, received Changjiang honors in 2017 and 2020, and coauthored 2025 papers on change captioning and hyperspectral super-resolution. As of October 2026, he is a vice president of Hangzhou Dianzi University.

Works
383
Citations
15,437
h-index
56
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2004–2013

    A computer science education

    He earns a B.S. in computer science at Shandong University in 2008 and completes a Ph.D. in computer science at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2013.

  2. 2012–2016

    Microsoft Research Asia and Tsinghua

    He interns at Microsoft Research Asia from 2012 to 2013 and works as a postdoctoral assistant researcher in the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University from 2014 to 2016.

  3. 2016–2018

    Professor and lab director

    He becomes a professor and doctoral supervisor in Hangzhou Dianzi University's School of Artificial Intelligence in 2016, then directs its Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory from 2018. His research spans artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, computer vision, and video coding.

  4. 2017

    Young Changjiang Scholar

    He becomes a Young Changjiang Scholar in 2017.

  5. 2020

    Changjiang Distinguished Professor

    He becomes a Changjiang Distinguished Professor in 2020.

  6. 2021–2024

    Research director and vice president

    He becomes director of Hangzhou Dianzi University's Research Office in 2021. At EAI ADHIP 2024, he delivers “Visual Perception Technology in Open Environments” while serving as vice president of Hangzhou Dianzi University and director of its Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory.

  7. 2025

    Change captioning and super-resolution

    In 2025, he coauthors the AAAI paper Region-aware Difference Distilling with Attribute-guided Contrastive Regularization for Change Captioning, which aims to describe differences between similar images. He also coauthors Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution Based on Spatial-Spectral-Frequency Multidimensional Features with contributors at Hangzhou Dianzi University's School of Communication Engineering and Lishui Institute.

  8. As of October 2026

    Vice president at Hangzhou Dianzi

    As of October 2026, he is a vice president of Hangzhou Dianzi University.

Career

  1. Since 2016Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityProfessor and doctoral supervisor, Director
  2. 2020–2025Shandong University
  3. 2018–2020University of Science and Technology of China
  4. 2014–2016Tsinghua UniversityPostdoctoral Assistant Researcher
  5. 2012–2013Microsoft Research AsiaIntern
  6. 2011–2014University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Education

  1. 2013Chinese Academy of SciencesPh.D. in computer science
  2. 2008Shandong UniversityB.S. in computer science

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

  1. Among employers with 30+ full-time cases, OpenAI leads primary technical role H-1B pay at $310,000, and Amazon, Google and Microsoft file 57% of all casesIncludes Microsoft. Across 440,669 certified US H-1B filings from 44 employers (FY2020–FY2026), OpenAI leads primary technical role base pay at $310,000 and xAI leads overall base pay at $290,000.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Hangzhou Dianzi University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Hangzhou Dianzi University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  4. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Chenggang Yan’s Personal Website cgyan-iipl.github.io. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Keynotes – EAI ADHIP 2024 adhip.eai-conferences.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Region-aware Difference Distilling with Attribute-guided Contrastive Regularization for Change Captioning ojs.aaai.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution Based on Spatial-Spectral-Frequency Multidimensional Features journal.bit.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Leadership & Administration en.hdu.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.