Yu Yang

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Lehigh University

Email:
yuyang AT lehigh.edu

Address:
Room 313, Building C
113 Research Drive
Lehigh Mountaintop Campus
Bethlehem, PA 18015

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University. My research focuses on the interaction between humans and real-world systems, particularly Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things (IoT). I develop machine learning models to understand human behavior from multisensory data and use these insights to inform the design and optimization of such systems. My work has been evaluated and deployed in domains such as intelligent transportation systems, logistics, the on-demand gig economy, last-mile mobility, and smart cities.

I am actively looking for motivated graduate/undergraduate/visiting students to work in my lab. Please email me your CV and all the transcripts if you are interested.

Recent News

• Jun. 2025 We are excited to host The First Workshop on Spatial Intelligence for Smart and Connected Communities (SpatialConnect 2025), colocated with SIGSPATIAL 2025. We welcome your submissions!
• May 2025 One paper accepted by IJCAI'25.
• Apr. 2025 One demo paper accepted to SenSys'25. We will showcase how a generative agent-based simulation platform can help reshape research on human–smart assistant interactions.
• Feb. 2025 Invited to join ACM IMWUT Editorial Board as Associate Editor (AE).
• Dec. 2024 1 paper about logistics service capacity prediction accepted by AAAI'25 (AI for Social Impact Track).
• Nov. 2024 1 paper about abnormal address correction in logistics systems accepted by KDD'25 (Applied Data Science Track).
• Aug. 2024 Grant: Project about human mobility modeling funded by NSF ATD (as PI).
• Jul. 2024 7 papers accepted by CIKM'24 (3 Full Research Papers + 4 Applied Research Papers).
• May 2024 1 paper accepted by KDD'24.
• Mar. 2024 Former REU student Benjamin won the Third Place Award at the 2024 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM based on the project we worked on in the summer.
• Mar. 2024 Introduced our work at the Micromobility 2.0 Workshop held at Rutgers University.
• Jan. 2024 1 paper accepted by ICRA'24.
• Jan. 2024 1 paper accepted by WWW'24.
• Dec. 2023 Invited Talk at NSF IoT Workshop.
• Oct. 2023 Award: Best Paper Award of CIKM'23.
• Aug. 2023 Grant: Project about traffic signal control funded by NSF CISE-MSI (as PI), in collaboration with Kean University.
• Aug. 2023 5 papers accepted by CIKM'23.
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