Dr. Yang Zhang

Yang Zhang

Faculty Member, Dept. of Computational Finance
PhD from Kyoto University, Japan
School of Management Science and Engineering, SWUFE

Dr. Yang Zhang is a faculty member at the School of Management Science and Engineering, SWUFE. He holds a PhD in Informatics from Kyoto University. He has an interdisciplinary background in Finance and Computer Science, along with industry experience in Fintech R&D.

His research focuses on the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, and Financial Market Prediction. He is the PI of projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

PhD Kyoto University
NSFC Principal Investigator
PC COLING/ECIR Member
Fintech Industry Experience

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text Mining, Time-series Prediction, Recommendation Systems, and Investment Algorithms.

Selected Publications

2022
Yang Zhang, and Qiang Ma. Dual Attention Model for Citation Recommendation with Analyses on Explainability. Computational Linguistics, 48(2).
2020
Yang Zhang, and Qiang Ma. Dual Attention Model for Citation Recommendation. COLING 2020.
2022
Yang Zhang, and Qiang Ma. MP-BERT4REC: Recommending Multiple Positive Citations for Manuscripts. IEICE Transactions.
2021
Yang Zhang, and Qiang Ma. Recommending Multiple Positive Citations via Content-Dependent Modeling. WI-IAT 2021.
2020
Yang Zhang, and Qiang Ma. DocCit2Vec: Citation Recommendation via Embedding of Content. IEEE Access, 8.

Grants & Services

NSFC
Young Scientist Fund: Theory and Key Technologies of Large Event Prediction Models for Joint Time-Series Semantic Representation, 2025-2027 (PI).
Central
Fundamental Research Funds: Research on Key Algorithms for Intelligent Reasoning of Financial Reports based on Multi-modal Large Models (PI).
Service
Program Committee Member for ECIR, COLING, ECAI (2023-2025). Best Recognized Reviewer at ECIR 2023.

Academic Background

Education

● PhD in Informatics, Kyoto University (2022)

● MA in Finance & Economics, University of Sydney (2016)

● BE in Mechanical Engineering, UNSW (2014)

Professional History

● 2023-Pres: School of Management Science and Engineering, SWUFE

● 2022-2023: Fintech Innovation Center, CCB Group