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.
Recent News
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.
Selected Publications
An asterisk (*) denotes co-first authorship
Honors / Awards
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.
