2025-2026 IAIER Seed Grant Funding Awardees
Award, NCCU, Durham, NC, USA
Dr. Liu’s proposal, titled “Advancing AI and Data Science for Social Media Mining,” has been funded by the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research (IAIER).
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Outstanding Mentor Award for Science and Research Summer Program (SRSP) 2025
Service, NCCU, Durham, NC, USA
Dr. Liu served as a research advisor, mentoring two students in the Science and Research Summer Program (SRSP) during June–July 2025. He was honored with the Outstanding Mentor Award for SRSP 2025 in July 2025.
IBM HBCU Quantum Center’s Intensive Writing Retreat in partnership with PRISSEM Academic Services
Workshop, Howard University and PRISSEM Academic Services, Alexandria, VA, USA
Dr. Liu has been selected to participate in the IBM HBCU Quantum Center Faculty Writing Retreat hosted by PRISSEM Academic Services, LLC.
IBM-HBCU Quantum Center Faculty Fellow
, Howard University, Washington, D.C., USA
Dr. Liu has been selected as the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center Faculty Fellow.
Duke Power Endowed Professor
, North Carolina Central University, School of Business, Durham, NC, USA
Dr. Yang Liu has been appointed as the Duke Power Endowed Professor at the School of Business, North Carolina Central University.
NCCU Appoints Dr. Yang Liu as Assistant Professor, Computer Information Systems
, North Carolina Central University, School of Business, Durham, NC, USA
North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has appointed Yang Liu, Ph.D., as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems within the School of Business, effective July 1, 2024. In addition to this role, he will serve as the Duke Power Endowed Professor at the School of Business.
An Exploratory Study of Quantum Natural Language Processing for Sentence Classification
Speaker, IBM HBCU Quantum Center Symposium, Howard University, WASHINGTON D.C., USA
IEEE Region 3 Student Professional Activities Service Award
Award, IEEE SoutheastCon, Atlanta, GA, USA
Yang Liu has been selected as the winner of the IEEE Region 3 Student Professional Activities Service Award!
Doctoral Dissertation Defense
Yang Liu successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, titled “Pandemic Surveillance using Social Media data, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning” on March 21, 2024!
Monkeypox At-a-glance from Google Trends and Reddit
Speaker, The IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), WASHINGTON D.C., USA
Yang Liu received the National Science Foundation Student Travel Award.