Kang Yang

Kang Yang Postdoctoral Scholar Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UCLA Email: kyang73 [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu

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Kang Yang Postdoc, UCLA

Email: kyang73 [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu

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ABOUT ME

Biography: Kang Yang is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Networked and Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL), Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UCLA, working with Professor Mani Srivastava. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department from UC Merced, advised by Associate Professor Wan Du.
His research focuses on the AI-enabled design and optimization of cyber-physical systems.
For additional information, please refer to my CV.

09/2025: Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025, with one honored as a Spotlight Award.
11/2024: Passed my Ph.D. final exam.

Note: * marks co-primary authors

AAAI AI4TS Oral Award, 2026.
Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), 2025.
NeurIPS Spotlight Award (Top 3.2 % of 21K submissions), 2025.
Rising Stars in EECS Workshop at MIT, 2025.
Rising Stars, 23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2025.
Best Demo Award, 23rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2025.
Farms Food Future Innovation Initiative (F3) R&D GSR Award, 2024-2025.
Farms Food Future Innovation Initiative (F3) R&D GSR Award, 2023-2024.
UC Merced Professional Development Award, 2024.
UC Merced GSA Conference Travel Award, 2022.
Best Paper Runner-up Award, 17th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2021.

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