YANG LIU received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering and Automation from Henan Polytechnic University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) in 2018. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from NC A&T in 2020 and 2024, respectively. He is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), where he also holds the title of Duke Power Endowed Professor at the School of Business. Additionally, He serves as the Associate Director of the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research (LAIER).

His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), information systems (IS), and socially consequential applications. He develops human-centered, trustworthy, and reproducible AI methods for analyzing and governing digital information environments, with applications in social media–based public health surveillance, misinformation and digital information governance, generative AI platforms, and autonomous research systems. His work draws on AI, ML, NLP, and computational social science to study online information-seeking behavior, emerging public health concerns, and platform-mediated information flows.

As an IBM-HBCU Quantum Center Faculty Fellow, he is exploring the potential applications of quantum computing and actively contributes to workforce development in Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE). He has served on the program committees of multiple conferences and as a reviewer for more than 25 journals and conferences in these areas.

News

[Publication] A journal article has been accepted in Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Cancer (May 2026)

[Publication] One journal article has been published in the Journal of Database Management (JDM) (Jan. 2026)

[Service] Program Committee Member for IEEE IRI 2026, Canadian AI 2026, IEEE AIxSET 2026, IEEE AIxB 2026

[Honor] National HBCU Fellowship at the Center for HBCU Research, Leadership, and Policy (Sep. 2025).

[Award] HCRN Fellowship, PI, Awarded ($5,000), 2025-2026

[Publication] One conference paper has been accepted in EMNLP 2025, Findings (Aug. 2025)

[Award] Outstanding Mentor Award for SRSP 2025 (Jul. 2025)

[Funding] Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research (IAIER) and Faculty Research Award Program (FRAP), PI, Awarded ($10,000), 2025-2026

[Service] Member of Technical Committees of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (IEEE CTSoc) for the theme: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI in Consumer Electronics (MDA) (Mar. 2025)

[Service] Area Chair for the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Rolling Review (ARR) 2025 (Feb. 2025)

[Funding] Department of Homeland Security (DHS), 2024 Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE) Hackathon Grants, Awarded ($17,500), 2024-2025

[Funding] IBM-HBCU Quantum Center Faculty Fellowship, PI, Awarded ($100,000), 2024-2026

[Honor] Dr. Liu has been appointed as the Duke Power Endowed Professor (Aug. 2024).

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