Qiang Yang
Qiang Yang earned his computer science doctorate at Maryland in 1989. He held faculty roles at Waterloo from 1989 to 1995 and Simon Fraser from 1995 to 2001. Yang founded and directed Huawei’s Noah’s Ark research lab from 2012 to 2014 and served as WeBank chief AI officer from 2018 to 2025. He also co-founded the FATE federated AI platform. Yang became an HKUST professor emeritus in 2023. His research interests include federated learning, transfer learning, case-based reasoning and planning, and his publications include Federated Machine Learning: Concept and Applications.
- Works
- 1,071
- Citations
- 106,625
- h-index
- 126
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1989–2001
Training and Canadian faculty roles
Qiang Yang earned his computer science doctorate at Maryland in 1989. He held faculty roles at Waterloo from 1989 to 1995 and Simon Fraser from 1995 to 2001.
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2012–2014; 2018–2025
Industrial AI laboratories
Yang founded and directed Huawei’s Noah’s Ark research lab from 2012 to 2014 and served as WeBank chief AI officer from 2018 to 2025. He also co-founded the FATE federated AI platform.
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2023 onward
Research and emeritus role
Yang became an HKUST professor emeritus in 2023. His research interests include federated learning, transfer learning, case-based reasoning and planning, and his publications include Federated Machine Learning: Concept and Applications.
Sources and credits
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