Laurence Tianruo Yang - Biography#

Dr. Yang got his BE in Computer Science and Technology and BSc in Applied Physics both from Tsinghua University, China and Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Victoria, Canada. He is a professor and W.F. James Research Chair at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes parallel, distributed and cloud computing, embedded and ubiquitous/pervasive computing, and big data. He has published around 400+ international journal papers in the above areas, of which half on top IEEE/ACM Transactions/Journals, others mainly on Elsevier, Springer and Wiley Journals with total citations of 26463 and H-index of 80 including 7 and 28 papers as top 0.1% and top 1% highly-cited ESI papers, respectively. He has been designated as the Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science Group) highly cited researcher in 2019 as one of 6 computer scientists from Canada, one of 107 in total in the world; and in 2020 as one of 5 computer scientists from Canada, one of 124 in the world, respectively.

He has been involved actively act as a steering chair for 10+ IEEE international conferences. He is the chair of IEEE CS Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (2008-2011, 2018-), the co-chair of IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cybermatics (2016-), the co-chair of IEEE SC Hype-Intelligence Technical Committee (2021-), and the chair IEEE CIS Cyber-Physical-Social Systems Task Force (2019-) and the vice-chair of IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Smart World (2016-2019). In addition, he is an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of more than 25 books from well-known publishers, invited to give around 50 keynote talks at various international conferences and symposia. He has been serving/served as an editor for 10+ reputable journals such as IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Access, Information Science (Elsevier), Information Fusion (Elsevier), Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier), Big Data Research (Elsevier) and a guest editor of 50+ special issues on reputable international journals.

The research has been supported by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Foundation for Innovations, National Science Foundations of China and National Key Research and Development Program of China with 10+ research projects in total CAD$5 millions.