Jing Yuan
University of North Texas
Computer Science and Engineering
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Education

PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, 2018.
Major: Computer Science

Professional Memberships

Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. (January 1, 2020 – Present).

Member, Association for Computing Machinery. (January 1, 2015 – Present).

Member, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. (January 1, 2015 – Present).

Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. (January 1, 2015 – Present).

Development Activities Attended

Workshop,"Crucial Conversations Workshop," UNT, United States of America. (March 6, 2024 – March 8, 2024).

Workshop,"Microsoft Research Forum," Microsoft, United States of America. (March 5, 2024 – March 5, 2024).

Seminar,"Overview of Institutional Grant Opportunities," UNT, United States of America. (February 28, 2024 – February 28, 2024).

Workshop,"HSI/MSI/Broader Impacts Workshop 2.0," UNT, United States of America. (February 6, 2024 – February 6, 2024).

Seminar,"EPSCoR Office Hour," NSF, United States of America. (January 25, 2024 – January 25, 2024).

Seminar,"Research BREAKS - Program Officer Proximity: Establishing Meaningful Connections," University of North Texas, United States of America. (January 24, 2024 – January 24, 2024).

Seminar,"All About the Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence with White House OSTP," NSF, United States of America. (December 14, 2023 – December 14, 2023).

Seminar,"Research Breaks - Foundation Relation Grant Opportunities," University of North Texas, United States of America. (November 29, 2023 – November 29, 2023).

Seminar,"ExpandAI Virtual Office Hours," NSF, United States of America. (November 20, 2023 – November 20, 2023).

Workshop,"International Affiliations and Research Security," University of North Texas, United States of America. (October 17, 2023 – October 17, 2023).

Seminar,"ExpandAI Virtual Office Hours," NSF, United States of America. (October 16, 2023 – October 16, 2023).

Seminar,"Research Breaks - Grant Management 101," University of North Texas, United States of America. (September 27, 2023 – September 27, 2023).

Seminar,"CISE CIRC program Webinar," NSF, United States of America. (July 19, 2023 – July 19, 2023).

Workshop,"NSF CISE CAREER Workshop," NSF, United States of America. (April 2023 – April 2023).

Workshop,"Developing Broader Impacts for HSI Universities," University of North Texas, United States of America. (April 13, 2023 – April 13, 2023).

Workshop,"Faculty Grantsmanship Workshop," University of North Texas, United States of America. (March 29, 2023 – March 29, 2023).

Seminar,"ExpandAI Program Webinars," NSF, United States of America. (March 16, 2023 – March 16, 2023).

Seminar,"Research Breaks - Corporate Foundation & Relation Opportunities," University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (January 25, 2023 – January 25, 2023).

Workshop,"CPRIT Academic Research Program Overview," University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (January 23, 2023 – January 23, 2023).

Workshop,"NSF Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Equity and Diversity (GRANTED) Initiative Conference and Workshops," National Science Foundation, United States of America. (January 18, 2023 – January 18, 2023).

Seminar,"ImageNet: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?," ACM, United States of America. (January 2, 2023 – January 2, 2023).

Seminar,"Research Breaks - New Sponsored Project Handbook," University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (December 19, 2022 – December 19, 2022).

Seminar,"The Decision-Making Side of Machine Learning," ACM, United States of America. (December 16, 2022 – December 16, 2022).

Seminar,"NSF IIS Office Hours," National Science Foundation, United States of America. (December 15, 2022 – December 15, 2022).

Seminar,"How to Create Generalizable AI," ACM, United States of America. (December 9, 2022 – December 9, 2022).

Seminar,"An AI-first Approach to Accelerating Autonomous Trucking," ACM, United States of America. (December 7, 2022 – December 7, 2022).

Seminar,"International Affiliations in Research," University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 29, 2022 – November 29, 2022).

Seminar,"NSF ExpandAI Office Hours," National Science Foundation, United States of America. (November 15, 2022 – November 15, 2022).

Seminar,"NSF virtual Grant conference," National Science Foundation, United States of America. (November 14, 2022 – November 14, 2022).

Seminar,"Research Breaks - Limited Submission Program Overview," University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (November 3, 2022 – November 3, 2022).

Seminar,"Identifying Funding Opportunities- Pivot Overview," University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (October 20, 2022 – October 20, 2022).

Seminar,"Research Breaks - Kickoff Meeting," University of North Texas, Denton, TX, United States of America. (September 1, 2022 – September 1, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas
CSCE 5215, Machine Learning, 4 courses.
CSCE 5900, Special Problems, 1 course.
CSCE 6940, Individual Research, 2 courses.

Directed Student Learning

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 16, 2024 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 16, 2024 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (December 1, 2023 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (December 1, 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (September 25, 2023 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (August 21, 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (May 9, 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Member, Computer Science and Engineering. (February 12, 2023 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 17, 2023 – Present).

Dissertation Committee Chair, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 17, 2023 – Present).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science. (February 2023 – May 2023).

Directed Individual/Independent Study, Computer Science and Engineering. (January 17, 2023 – May 10, 2023).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter
Yuan, J., Wu, W., Varanasi, S. (2018). Approximation and Heuristics for Community Detection. Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition: Contemporary and Emerging Applications, Volume 2, Chapter 37.
Yuan, J., Wu, W., Xu, W. (2018). Approximation for Influence Maximization. Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Second Edition: Contemporary and Emerging Applications, Volume 2, Chapter 36.
Li, C., Yuan, J., Du, D. (2018). Social Influence-Based Optimization Problems. Open Problems in Optimization and Data Analysis, Chapter 2.
Conference Proceeding
Yuan, J., Tang, S. (2023). Approximating Decision Trees with Priority Hypotheses. The 29th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2023.
Tang, S., Yuan, J., Mensah-Boateng, T. (2023). Achieving Long-term Fairness in Submodular Maximization through Randomization. The 19th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization, CTW 2023.
Yuan, J., Tang, S. (2023). Worst-Case Adaptive Submodular Cover. The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2022). Optimal Sampling Gaps for Adaptive Submodular Maximization. The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2022.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2022). Streaming Adaptive Submodular Maximization. The 16th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2021). Adaptive Cascade Submodular Maximization. The 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2021.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2020). Adaptive Robust Submodular Optimization and Beyond. The 14th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2020.
Tang, S., Yuan, J., Mookerjee, V. (2020). Optimizing Ad Allocation in Mobile Advertising. The 21st ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing, ACM Mobihoc 2020.
Yuan, J., Wu, W., Li, Y., Du, D. (2017). Active Friending in Online Social Networks. The 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies, IEEE/ACM BDCAT 2017.
Yuan, J., Tang, S. (2017). Adaptive Discount Allocation in Social Networks. The 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, ACM Mobihoc 2017.
Tang, S., Zhou, Y., Han, K., Zhang, Z., Yuan, J., Wu, W. (2017). Networked Stochastic Multi-armed Bandits with Combinatorial Strategies. The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE ICDCS 2017.
Yuan, J., Tang, S. (2017). No Time to Observe: Adaptive Influence Maximization with Partial Feedback. The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2016). Optimizing Ad Allocation in Social Advertising. The 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM CIKM 2016.
Journal Article
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2023). Group Equality in Adaptive Submodular Maximization. INFORMS Journal on Computing. INFORMS.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2023). Partial-Adaptive Submodular Maximization. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 13889, . Springer.
Yuan, J., Tang, S. (2023). Group fairness in non-monotone submodular maximization. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 45(3), 88. Springer.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2023). Streaming Adaptive Submodular Maximization. Theoretical Computer Science. 944, 113644. Elsevier.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2022). Assortment Optimization with Repeated Exposures and Product-dependent Patience Cost. Operations Research Letters. 50(1), 8-15.
Tang, S., Yuan, J. (2022). Partial-monotone adaptive submodular maximization. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 45(1), 35. Springer.
Yang, W., Ma, J., Li, Y., Yan, R., Yuan, J., Wu, W., Li, D. (2019). Marginal Gains to Maximize Content Spread in Social Networks. 6(3), 479-490. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
Yang, W., Yuan, J., Wu, W., Ma, J., Du, D. (2019). Maximizing Activity Profit in Social Networks. 6(1), 117-126. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
Zhang, Z., Wu, W., Yuan, J., Du, D. (2018). Breach-free Sleep-Wakeup Scheduling for Barrier Coverage with Heterogeneous Wireless Sensors. 26(5), 2404-2413. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Zhu, J., Zhu, J., Ghosh, S., Wu, W., Yuan, J. (2018). Social Influence Maximization in Hypergraph in Social Networks. 6(4), 801-811. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.
Tu, J., Wu, L., Yuan, J., Cui, L. (2017). On the Vertex Cover P3 Problem Parameterized by Treewidth. 34(2), 414-425. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.
Yuan, J., He, L., Dragut, E., Meng, W., Yu, C. (2017). Result Merging for Structured Queries on the Deep Web with Active Relevance Weight Estimation. 64, 93-103. Information Systems.

Presentations Given

Oral Presentation

Yuan, J. (Presenter), CSE Research Seminar, Submodular Optimization in Social Computing, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Yuan, J. (Presenter), CSE Research Project Open House, Responsible Interactive Learning System, United States of America. (2022).

Paper

Yuan, J. (Author & Presenter), The 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2024, Submodular Optimization Beyond Nonnegativity: Adaptive Seed Selection in Incentivized Social Advertising, United States of America. (2024 – 2024).

Yuan, J. (Author & Presenter), The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2024, Non-monotone Sequential Submodular Maximization, Canada. (2024 – 2024).

Yuan, J. (Author & Presenter), The 29th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, COCOON 2023, Approximating Decision Trees with Priority Hypotheses, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Yuan, J. (Author & Presenter), The 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2023, Worst-Case Adaptive Submodular Cover, United Kingdom. (2023 – 2023).

Scholarly Meeting Contribution

Yuan, J. (Presenter), CENG-COS Meet and Greet, Submodular Optimization in Social Computing, UNT, United States of America. (2023 – 2023).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Yuan, J. (Principal), Wang, J. (Co-Principal), "Fundamental Trade-offs and Algorithms in Fairness-aware Adaptive Learning Systems," Sponsored by CAHSI-Google, National, $80000 Funded. (September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024).
Yuan, J. (Principal), "Conference Travel Support Award," Sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $1000 Funded. (June 2024 – June 2024).

Awards and Honors

Best Paper Award, International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management. (August 14, 2022 – August 14, 2022).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, PhD admission Committee. (September 27, 2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Diversity, Inclusion and Retention Committee. (November 21, 2022 – December 1, 2023).

Professional Service

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation. (April 2024 – Present).

Committee Member, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). (February 26, 2024 – Present).

Mentor, CAHSI LREU. (February 7, 2024 – Present).

Committee Member, International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON). (January 18, 2024 – Present).

Committee Member, The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS). (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA). (August 15, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). (July 15, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM). (February 14, 2023 – Present).

Reviewer, Journal Article, Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier. (November 28, 2022 – Present).

Editor, Associate Editor, Machine Learning with Applications, Elsevier. (September 9, 2022 – Present).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation. (January 2024 – January 2024).

Program Organizer, Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA). (December 15, 2023 – December 17, 2023).

Program Organizer, International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON). (December 15, 2023 – December 17, 2023).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation. (November 2023 – November 2023).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation. (October 2023 – October 2023).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation. (September 2023 – September 2023).

Reviewer, Grant Proposal, National Science Foundation. (June 2023 – June 2023).

Program Organizer, The 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management. (2021).

Program Organizer, The 14th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. (2020).

Committee Member, The 16th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking. (2020).

Program Organizer, The IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Dallas, Texas. (2019).

Committee Member, International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communication. (2017).

Program Organizer, The 21st International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications. (2016).