Yuan Fang

Short Biography

• Since July 2018, I have been an Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU). Prior to joining SMU, I was a data scientist at DBS Bank, and a research scientist at A*STAR. I obtained a PhD Degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 on a fully funded scholarship from A*STAR, and Bachelor of Computing with First Class Honors from National University of Singapore in 2009 as the top student in Computer Science.

Research Interests and Projects

• My general interest lies in the broad areas of data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence. More specifically, I am working on the following research topics: (1) Learning on graphs and information networks; (2) Web and social media analytics; (3) Recommendation systems; (4) Application of knowledge graphs on data mining problems. Some of my research projects are summarized below, and you can read my research statement and the full list of publications.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (08.2009--08.2014)
• Bachelor of Computing (First Class Honors), National University of Singapore (08.2005--07.2009)

Employment

• Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University (07.2018--Present)
• Data Scientist, DBS Bank Singapore (11.2017--06.2018)
• Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR (08.2014--11.2017)
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond (05.2013--08.2013)
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond (05.2011--08.2011)
• Research Engineer, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR (08.2009--08.2010)

Honors and Awards

• Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, 2021
• Research featured in VLDB'13 Best Papers Collection, 2015
• A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (Overseas), 2010--2014
• Top Student Medal and Prize in Computer Science, 2009
• Baden-Württemberg International Exchange Scholarship, 2008
• Dean’s List Awards, 2006/2007/2009
• Singapore National Olympiad in Informatics, Gold Award, 2004
• Singapore Mathematical Olympiad (Senior), Gold Award and Individual 7th, 2001

Grants and Funding

• Fellow, Lee Kong Chian Fellowship, SGD 30K, 2021
• Co-PI, Learning with Less Data, A*STAR AME Programmatic Funds, SGD 8.9M (for Co-PI: SGD 960K), 2021
• PI, Few-shot Learning, AI Singapore Research Programme, SGD 500K, 2019
• PI, Semantic Learning on Graphs, Ministry of Education Singapore Tier-1 Fund, SGD 100K, 2018
• Co-PI, Network Functional Blocks, Alibaba Innovation Research Grant, USD 80K, 2018
• Co-PI, Network-based Risk Prediction, DBS Bank Singapore, SGD 400K, 2016
• PI, Branch Predictive Analytics, DBS Bank Singapore, SGD 100K, 2015