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 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCLA, working with Mani Srivastava. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Merced, advised by Wan Du
His research focuses on the AI-enabled design and optimization of cyber-physical systems
For additional information, please refer to my CV

05/2026: SoilX received the Best Paper Award at ACM/IEEE SenSys 2026
09/2025: Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025, with one honored as a Spotlight Award
11/2024: Passed my Ph.D. final exam

An asterisk (*) denotes co-first authorship.

Best Paper Award, Inaugural ACM/IEEE International Conference on Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems (SenSys), 2026
FAME Awardee, Future Academics and Mentorship Excellence Workshop, University of California, Riverside, 2026
Oral Award, AI4TS Workshop at AAAI, 2026
Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE), 2025
NeurIPS Spotlight Award, 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

Program Committee:

Journal Reviewer:

ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (Distinguished Reviewer Board)
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (Distinguished Reviewer Board)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Internet of Things Journal