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Yang Xiang is a Professor Emeritus at the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph, where he has made significant contributions since joining in 2000. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia, awarded in 1992, and has an extensive background in academia. His prior positions include Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, Lecturer at the University of Regina, Assistant Professor also at the University of Regina, and Visiting Professor at both Aalborg University in Denmark and the University of Massachusetts. Xiang's research primarily focuses on representation inference formalism based probabilistic decision theoretical graphical models, including Bayesian networks and Markov decision processes. He has developed the Java-based WebWeavr toolkit for graphical model-based research and training, which is used globally. Xiang's recognition includes a paper award from the 31st Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2017 and praised work as an Associate Editor for Computational Intelligence from 2014 to 2021. He also served on the Editorial Review Boards of various journals.
School of Computer Science, University of Guelph • Guelph, ON, Canada
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