Laurence T. Yang got his BE in Computer Science and Technology and BSc in Applied Physics both from Tsinghua University, China and Ph.D in Computer Science from University of Victoria, Canada. He is the Academic Vice-President and Dean of School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Zhengzhou University, China. His research includes Cyber-Physical-Social Intelligence. He has published 400+ papers in the above area on top IEEE/ACM Transactions with total citations of 44000+ and H-index of 105 including 8 and 44 papers as top 0.1% and top 1% highly cited ESI papers, respectively.
His recent honors and awards include the member of US National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (2025), a foreign member of Russian Academy of Engineering (2024) and a member of Academia Europaea, the Academy of Europe (2021), the John B. Stirling Medal (2021) from Engineering Institute of Canada, IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award (2020), IEEE Canada C. C. Gotlieb Computer Medal (2020), Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science Group) Highly Cited Researcher (2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024), Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology (2020), Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2020), Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada (2019), Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering (2017), etc.