I'm

Jessica YANG

Machine Learning, Large-Scale Data Mining,
Medical Image Analysis, Augmented Reality,
Healthcare
zq-cs.yang@polyu.edu.hk

About

About Me

Jessica YANG

Project Fellow, COMP, PolyU, Hong Kong

Dr. YANG is a project fellow with the Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China and has been a postdoctoral fellow with the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include Machine Learning, Large-Scale Data Mining, Medical Image Analysis and Augmented Reality. Her publications appear in top-notch conferences (MM) and journals (TMI, TIP, BIB).

She has been involved a lot in AR rehabilitation in recent years. During the COVID-19, the systems she built with her team in CUHK have made it possible for 300+ post-stroke patients (including those from 35 rehabilitation centres and 60+ home users) to continue their trials when most of the centres have suspended their rehabilitation services due to the pandemics. The work has been reported by TVB in March 2021, has won the Best Rehabilitation Programme in the 9th Eldercare Innovation Awards 2021 which held in Singapore in December 2021 and “Certificate of Merit” in Smart Living (Smart Healthcare) in ‘Hong Kong ICT Awards 2021’ in December 2021.

Research Interest: Machine Learning, Large-Scale Data Mining, Medical Image Analysis, Augmented Reality, Healthcare

Name: Zhen-Qun Yang (Jessica YANG)
Degree: PhD
Experience: 10 Years
Email: zq-cs.yang@polyu.edu.hk
Address: PQ702, Mong Man Wai Building

Publications

Publications

Zhen-Qun Yang, Jiannong Cao, Xiaoyin Li, Kaile Wang, Xinzhe Zheng, Kai Cheung Franky Poon, Daniel Lai. DMP_AI: An AI-Aided K-12 System for Teaching and Learning in Diverse Schools. The 17th International Conference on Blended Learning (ICBL 2024), LNCS 14797, 2024.

Ju Chengyi, Jiannong Cao, Yu Yang, Zhen-Qun Yang, Ho Man Lee. Heterogeneity-aware Cross-school Electives Recommendation: a Hybrid Federated Approach. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW), IEEE, 2023.

Zhen-Qun Yang, Xiaoy-Yong Wei, and Yi Zhang*, Gerald Friedland. Contextual Noise Reduction for Domain Adaptive Near-Duplicate Retrieval on Merchandize Images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 26, no. 8, pp.3896–3910, 2017.

Xu-Lu Zhang1, Zhen-Qun Yang1, Dong-Mei Jiang, Ga Liao, Qing Li, Ramesh Jain, Xiao-Yong Wei*. Cardiac Evidence Mining for Eating Monitoring using Collocative Electrocardiogram Imagining. TechRxiv. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.36227/techrxiv.18093275.v2, 2022.

Zhen-Qun Yang, Dan Du, Xiao-Yong Wei, Raymond Kai-Yu Tong*. Augmented reality for stroke rehabilitation during COVID-19. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 19(1):136, Dec 8, 2022.

Cao, Yi1, Zhen-Qun Yang1, Xu-Lu Zhang, Wenqi Fan, Yaowei Wang, Jiajun Shen, Dong-Qing Wei, Qing Li, and Xiao-Yong Wei. Identifying the kind behind SMILES—anatomical therapeutic chemical classification using structure-only representations. Briefings in Bioinformatics 23, no. 5 (2022): bbac346.

Xiao-Yong Wei1, Zhen-Qun Yang1, Zhang-Xu Lu, et al.. Deep Collocative Learning for Immunofixation Electrophoresis Image Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 40(7):1898-1910, July 2021.

Xiao-Yong Wei, Zhen-Qun Yang*, Chong-Wah Ngo, Zhang Wei. Visual Typo Correction by Collocative Optimization - A Case Study on Merchandize Images. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.23, no.2, pp.527–540, 2014.

Xiao-Yong Wei, Zhen-Qun Yang*. Coaching the Exploration and Exploitation in Active Learning for Interactive Video Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.22, no.3, pp.955–968, 2013.

Ling-Fung Yeung1, Zhen-Qun Yang1, Kenneth Chik-Chi Cheng, Dan Du, Raymond Kai-Yu Tong*. Effects of camera viewing angles on tracking kinematic gait patterns using Azure Kinect, Kinect v2 and Orbbec Astra Pro v2. Gait & Posture, vol.87, pp. 19–26, June 2021.

Lee, John SY, Chak Yan Yeung, and Zhenqun Yang. Personalized and adaptive text recommendation for learners of Chinese. Interactive Learning Environments, (2022): 1-14.

Xiao-Yong Wei, Zhen-Qun Yang*. Mining In-Class Social Networks for Large-Scale Pedagogical Analysis. ACM Multimedia 2012 (MM’12), Nara, Japan, October 29-November 2, 2012. (Long Paper, Oral, Acceptance Rate: 18%, recommended as a candidate for Brave New Ideas)

Xiao-Yong Wei, Zhen-Qun Yang*. Coached Active Learning for Interactive Video Search. ACM Multimedia 2011 (MM’11), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November 28-December 1, 2011. (Long Paper, Oral, Acceptance Rate: 17%, recommended as a High Risk/Reward Theories (i.e., Contributions that explore innovative and paradigm shifts in conventional theory and practice of multimedia techniques and applications. In this paper, the ideas differ from the state of art in theory and demonstrate the potential for changing ways of thinking))

Skills

My Skills

• 2 Years’ Project Fellow at PolyU. 3.5 Years’ Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Manager/Coordinator at CUHK. PhD in Computer Science and Technology.
• 9+ Years’ Research Experience in AI (Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Computer Vision, and Computational Linguistics).
• Publications in Top-notch Conference (MM) and Journals (TMI, TIP, BIB, ...) with First/Corresponding Authorship.
• Applied Research Validated in Real World (e.g., rehabilitation systems for stroke and people with chronic decease running in 35+ centres in Hong Kong and 50+ homes; system for Immunofixation Electrophoresis analysis running successfully for 30+ months in the West China Hospital).
• 6+ Years’ Experience of Research Grant Application and Execution (i.e., Co-Investigator of 3 national level projects, Project Manager/Coordinator of 1 ITF project and 2 Hong Kong Jockey Club Charity Fund project).
• 7+ Years’ Experience in Industry (i.e., 2 years of AI-aided educational systems at PolyU; 3.5 years on 2 AR rehabilitation projects at CUHK; and over 2 years on 3 e-learning systems at CityU.).
• Years’ Professional Experience with Java/J2EE, C, C#, Python, .NET, Matlab, HTML, JSP, ASP, PHP, SQL Server, and MySQL.

Service

My Services

Teaching & Learning in Education

ML, AI and big-data technologies to support primary and secondary schools' teaching and learning in Hong Kong.

Computer-aided teaching and learning of existing bilingual writing and translating in/between English and Chinese, the final data analysis platform has been contacted for trial with Peking University, Beijing Foreign Studies University and Yuan Ze University in Taiwan.

Healthycare

Rehabilitation systems for stroke and people with chronic decease running in 35+ centres and 50+ homes in Hong Kong during the COVID-19. The work has been reported by TVB in March 2021, has won the Best Rehabilitation Programme in the "9th Eldercare Innovation Awards 2021" and Certificate of Merit in Smart Living (Smart Healthcare) in "Hong Kong ICT Awards 2021" in December 2021.

System for Immunofixation Electrophoresis analysis running successfully for 30+ months in the West China Hospital.

Web & Windows Design, Development

On-line platform for computer-aided teaching and learning of bilingual writing and translating in English and Chinese.

Windows platform of nature seen through poetry: From Lexis to Cognition and from Text to Imagery Network with Wang Wei and Meng Haoran as Case Examples.

Web-based learning system that was used in over 40 local primary schools in Hong Kong.

Apps Design, Development

Models for neural network grammatical error detection and correction models in English learner writing.

Models for automatic difficulty assessment and learning content recommendation for Chinese learning. The work has been published in Interactive Learning Environments.

Image Retrieval

Contextual Noise Reduction for Domain Adaptive Near-Duplicate Retrieval on Merchandize Images. Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2017.

Visual Typo Correction by Collocative Optimization - A Case Study on Merchandize Images. Published in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), 2013.

Video Retrieval

Coached Active Learning for Interactive Video Search. Published in ACM Multimedia as a long paper.

The model has been proposed and been recommended as a High Risk/Reward Theories (i.e., Contributions that explore innovative and paradigm shifts in conventional theory and practice of multimedia techniques and applications. In this paper, the ideas differ from the state of art in theory and demonstrate the potential for changing ways of thinking).

Awards

My Awards

-- Nov.,2021 HONG KONG ICT Awards 2021, Smart Living (Smart Healthcare), Certificate of Merits, Hong Kong, AR-Home and AR-Centre Rehab, Project Manager and Software Architect.
-- Dec.,2021 "The Best Rehabilitation Programme" in the 9th Eldercare Innovation Awards 2021, Singapore, HOPE4Care programme, Project Coordinator and Software Architect.
-- Mar.,2021 The AI related projects I’ve managed/coordinated have played important roles in addressing the COVID situation and reported by TVB News.

Contact

Contact Me

Email: zq-cs.yang@polyu.edu.hk
Address: PQ702, Mong Man Wai Building, Dept. of Computing, The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong

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