Yang, Jack

Overview

Dr. Jie (Jack) Yang has extensive experience in big data analysis and machine learning.

Until recently his major research interest has been machine learning, big data mining, and numerical optimization etc. His current working areas include Spark-based platform for big data analysis with text mining, user network, and behavior modelling.

Teaching Subjects:
ISIT219 Knowledge and Information Engineering
ISIT306 Strategic eBusiness Solutions

Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=LcTT0YQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Research Areas

Member Of

IEEE Member 2018 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	An alternating least square based algorithm for predicting patient survivability Published In Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 996 Pages 305 - 317 Altmetric
2019	Characteristics of Chinese Online Movie Reviews and Opinion Leadership Identification Published In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Volume Online First Pages 1 - 16 ISSN 1044-7318 Altmetric
2019	Compressive sensing-enhanced feature selection and its application in travel mode choice prediction Published In Applied Soft Computing Volume 75 Pages 537 - 547 ISSN 1568-4946 Altmetric
2019	Feed-forward neural network training using sparse representation Published In Expert Systems with Applications Volume 116 Pages 255 - 264 ISSN 0957-4174 Altmetric
2019	Privacy and app use in Australian primary schools: insights into school-based Internet governance Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources Volume Online First Pages 1 - 12 ISSN 1329-878X Altmetric
2019	Working the system: Development of a system model of technology integration to inform learning task design Published In British Journal of Educational Technology Volume 50 Pages 326 - 341 ISSN 0007-1013 Altmetric
2018	App clusters: Exploring patterns of multiple app use in primary learning contexts Published In Computers and Education Volume 127 Pages 154 - 164 ISSN 0360-1315 Altmetric
2018	Breast cancer data analysis for survivability studies and prediction Published In Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Volume 155 Pages 199 - 208 ISSN 0169-2607 Altmetric
2018	Comparison study on development path for small and medium-sized enterprises E-commerce using complex fuzzy sets Published In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems Volume 11 Pages 716 - 724 ISSN 1875-6883 Altmetric
2018	Development and evaluation of an MRE-based absorber with two individually controllable natural frequencies Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 27 Pages 095002-1 - 095002-9 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2017	Data mining in educational technology classroom research: Can it make a contribution? Published In Computers and Education Volume 113 Pages 226 - 242 ISSN 0360-1315 Altmetric
2017	Development of an MR seat suspension with self-powered generation capability Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 26 Pages 085025-1 - 085025-15 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2017	Examining the Effects of Transport Policy on Modal Shift from Private Car to Public Bus Published In Procedia Engineering Volume 180 Pages 1413 - 1422 Altmetric
2017	Supply chain downstream strategic cost evaluation using L-COPRAS method in cross-border E-commerce Published In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems Volume 10 Pages 815 - 823 ISSN 1875-6883 Altmetric
2016	A hybrid gene expression programming algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems Volume 9 Pages 778 - 787 ISSN 1875-6883 Altmetric
2016	A structure optimization framework for feed-forward neural networks using sparse representation Published In Knowledge-Based Systems Volume 109 Pages 61 - 70 ISSN 0950-7051 Altmetric
2016	Mining Chinese social media UGC: a big‑data framework for analyzing Douban movie reviews Published In Journal of Big Data Volume 3 Pages 1 - 23 Altmetric
2016	Student rules: exploring patterns of students' computer-efficacy and engagement with digital technologies in learning Published In Computers and Education Volume 101 Pages 29 - 42 ISSN 0360-1315 Altmetric
2016	The Douban online social media barometer and the Chinese reception of Korean popular culture flows Published In Participations: journal of audience and reception studies Volume 13 Pages 114 - 138 ISSN 1749-8716
2016	The impact of electronic health records on risk management of information systems in Australian residential aged care homes Published In Journal of Medical Systems Volume 40 Pages 204-1 - 204-7 ISSN 0148-5598 Altmetric

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Chinese Transcreators, Webtoons and the Korean Digital Wave Published In Digital Transactions in Asia: Economic, Informational, and Social Exchanges Publisher London: Routledge Pages 224 - 241 ISBN 9781138353961
2019	The paradox of opinion leadership and recommendation culture in Chinese online movie reviews Published In Big data recommender systems: Recent trends and advances Publisher London: Institution of Engineering and Technology Pages 293 - 315 ISBN 9781785615016
2016	A structure optimization algorithm of neural networks for pattern learning from educational data Published In Artificial Neural Network Modelling Publisher Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Pages 67 - 82 ISBN 9783319284934 Altmetric
2015	Marketing bait (2012) using SMART data to identify e-guanxi among china’s ‘Internet Aborigines’ Published In Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century Publisher London United Kingdom: British Film Institute - Palgrave Pages 132 - 146
2014	Compressive sensing for multipolarization through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar Publisher CRC Press Pages 231 - 250 Altmetric
2009	A new approach to sparse image representation using MMV and K-SVD Published In Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems : ACIVS 2009 Publisher Berlin, Germany: Springer Pages 200 - 209 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	Using Data Mining and Machine Learning Approaches to Observe Technology-Enhanced Learning Published In Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018 Pages 788 - 793 Altmetric
2018	Online opinion leadership in China's digital army: Proposals for an empirical study of Douban Published In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2017	A big data analytic framework for investigating streaming educational data Published In Australasian Computer Science Week 2017 Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2017	Investigating live streaming data for student behaviour modelling Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) Pages 434 - 439 Altmetric
2017	Using complex fuzzy sets for strategic cost evaluation in supply chain downstream Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) Pages 440 - 445 Altmetric
2016	A conceptual model for clustering local government areas using complex fuzzy sets Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2016 Pages 2020 - 2026 Altmetric
2016	Big Data, Big Theory: Moving beyond new empiricism to generate powerful explanations Published In 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology: Book of Abstracts Page p. 316
2016	Exploring technology integration in education using fuzzy representation and feature selection Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2016 Pages 1288 - 1293 Altmetric
2016	Social media analysis on evaluating organizational performance: a railway service management Published In 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom 2016) Pages 835 - 841 Altmetric
2015	A big-data processing framework for uncertainties in transportation data Published In IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FuzzIEEEE 2015) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2015	Mining a system: The use of data mining and system dynamics to explore technology integration Published In EARLI 2015 Book of Abstracts Pages 380 - 381
2014	A sparsity-based training algorithm for least squares SVM Published In IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2014) Pages 345 - 350 Altmetric
2014	A structure optimization algorithm of neural networks for large-scale data sets Published In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) Pages 956 - 961 Altmetric
2011	Multiple-measurement vector model and its application to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Pages 2672 - 2675 Altmetric
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 593 - 599 Altmetric
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 2054 - 2057 Altmetric
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 1607 - 1614 Altmetric
2010	Multi-view through-the-wall radar imaging using compressed sensing Published In 18th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2010 Pages 1429 - 1433
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009 Pages 3428 - 3435 Altmetric
2009	Dynamic supplying desired web service for e-business Published In Second International Symposium on Electronic Commerce and Security, 2009. ISECS '09 Pages 369 - 373 Altmetric

Investigator On

Year	Title
2018 - 2020	Mobile Webtoons: Creative Innovation in a New Digital Economy Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

Global Challenges Program - Keystone Funding, People with dementia can be Included & Enabled through social Connections, Environments & Services (PIECES) Chief Investigator 2019 - 2020
Educational Strategies Development Fund (ESDF) Grants, 2018, University of Wollongong Chief Investigator 2018 - 2019
ARC-Discover Project (DP170102176) Senior research fellow 2017 - 2019
ARC-Linkage Project (LP150100681) Senior research fellow 2015 - 2018

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Prediction on Cancer: An approach on data analysis	Hu, Minot

Keywords

Big data analysis; Machine Learning; Text Mining; Social Network analysis;

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1317-8142 (pending confirmation)

Research Areas

Member Of

IEEE Member 2018 -

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	An alternating least square based algorithm for predicting patient survivability Published In Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 996 Pages 305 - 317 Altmetric
2019	Characteristics of Chinese Online Movie Reviews and Opinion Leadership Identification Published In International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction Volume Online First Pages 1 - 16 ISSN 1044-7318 Altmetric
2019	Compressive sensing-enhanced feature selection and its application in travel mode choice prediction Published In Applied Soft Computing Volume 75 Pages 537 - 547 ISSN 1568-4946 Altmetric
2019	Feed-forward neural network training using sparse representation Published In Expert Systems with Applications Volume 116 Pages 255 - 264 ISSN 0957-4174 Altmetric
2019	Privacy and app use in Australian primary schools: insights into school-based Internet governance Published In Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: quarterly journal of media research and resources Volume Online First Pages 1 - 12 ISSN 1329-878X Altmetric
2019	Working the system: Development of a system model of technology integration to inform learning task design Published In British Journal of Educational Technology Volume 50 Pages 326 - 341 ISSN 0007-1013 Altmetric
2018	App clusters: Exploring patterns of multiple app use in primary learning contexts Published In Computers and Education Volume 127 Pages 154 - 164 ISSN 0360-1315 Altmetric
2018	Breast cancer data analysis for survivability studies and prediction Published In Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Volume 155 Pages 199 - 208 ISSN 0169-2607 Altmetric
2018	Comparison study on development path for small and medium-sized enterprises E-commerce using complex fuzzy sets Published In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems Volume 11 Pages 716 - 724 ISSN 1875-6883 Altmetric
2018	Development and evaluation of an MRE-based absorber with two individually controllable natural frequencies Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 27 Pages 095002-1 - 095002-9 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2017	Data mining in educational technology classroom research: Can it make a contribution? Published In Computers and Education Volume 113 Pages 226 - 242 ISSN 0360-1315 Altmetric
2017	Development of an MR seat suspension with self-powered generation capability Published In Smart Materials and Structures Volume 26 Pages 085025-1 - 085025-15 ISSN 1361-665X Altmetric
2017	Examining the Effects of Transport Policy on Modal Shift from Private Car to Public Bus Published In Procedia Engineering Volume 180 Pages 1413 - 1422 Altmetric
2017	Supply chain downstream strategic cost evaluation using L-COPRAS method in cross-border E-commerce Published In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems Volume 10 Pages 815 - 823 ISSN 1875-6883 Altmetric
2016	A hybrid gene expression programming algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems Volume 9 Pages 778 - 787 ISSN 1875-6883 Altmetric
2016	A structure optimization framework for feed-forward neural networks using sparse representation Published In Knowledge-Based Systems Volume 109 Pages 61 - 70 ISSN 0950-7051 Altmetric
2016	Mining Chinese social media UGC: a big‑data framework for analyzing Douban movie reviews Published In Journal of Big Data Volume 3 Pages 1 - 23 Altmetric
2016	Student rules: exploring patterns of students' computer-efficacy and engagement with digital technologies in learning Published In Computers and Education Volume 101 Pages 29 - 42 ISSN 0360-1315 Altmetric
2016	The Douban online social media barometer and the Chinese reception of Korean popular culture flows Published In Participations: journal of audience and reception studies Volume 13 Pages 114 - 138 ISSN 1749-8716
2016	The impact of electronic health records on risk management of information systems in Australian residential aged care homes Published In Journal of Medical Systems Volume 40 Pages 204-1 - 204-7 ISSN 0148-5598 Altmetric

Chapter

Year	Title
2019	Chinese Transcreators, Webtoons and the Korean Digital Wave Published In Digital Transactions in Asia: Economic, Informational, and Social Exchanges Publisher London: Routledge Pages 224 - 241 ISBN 9781138353961
2019	The paradox of opinion leadership and recommendation culture in Chinese online movie reviews Published In Big data recommender systems: Recent trends and advances Publisher London: Institution of Engineering and Technology Pages 293 - 315 ISBN 9781785615016
2016	A structure optimization algorithm of neural networks for pattern learning from educational data Published In Artificial Neural Network Modelling Publisher Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Pages 67 - 82 ISBN 9783319284934 Altmetric
2015	Marketing bait (2012) using SMART data to identify e-guanxi among china’s ‘Internet Aborigines’ Published In Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century Publisher London United Kingdom: British Film Institute - Palgrave Pages 132 - 146
2014	Compressive sensing for multipolarization through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Compressive Sensing for Urban Radar Publisher CRC Press Pages 231 - 250 Altmetric
2009	A new approach to sparse image representation using MMV and K-SVD Published In Advanced concepts for intelligent vision systems : ACIVS 2009 Publisher Berlin, Germany: Springer Pages 200 - 209 Altmetric

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2019	Using Data Mining and Machine Learning Approaches to Observe Technology-Enhanced Learning Published In Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering, TALE 2018 Pages 788 - 793 Altmetric
2018	Online opinion leadership in China's digital army: Proposals for an empirical study of Douban Published In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2017	A big data analytic framework for investigating streaming educational data Published In Australasian Computer Science Week 2017 Pages 1 - 4 Altmetric
2017	Investigating live streaming data for student behaviour modelling Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) Pages 434 - 439 Altmetric
2017	Using complex fuzzy sets for strategic cost evaluation in supply chain downstream Published In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) Pages 440 - 445 Altmetric
2016	A conceptual model for clustering local government areas using complex fuzzy sets Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2016 Pages 2020 - 2026 Altmetric
2016	Big Data, Big Theory: Moving beyond new empiricism to generate powerful explanations Published In 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology: Book of Abstracts Page p. 316
2016	Exploring technology integration in education using fuzzy representation and feature selection Published In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZ-IEEE 2016 Pages 1288 - 1293 Altmetric
2016	Social media analysis on evaluating organizational performance: a railway service management Published In 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom 2016) Pages 835 - 841 Altmetric
2015	A big-data processing framework for uncertainties in transportation data Published In IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FuzzIEEEE 2015) Pages 1 - 6 Altmetric
2015	Mining a system: The use of data mining and system dynamics to explore technology integration Published In EARLI 2015 Book of Abstracts Pages 380 - 381
2014	A sparsity-based training algorithm for least squares SVM Published In IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2014) Pages 345 - 350 Altmetric
2014	A structure optimization algorithm of neural networks for large-scale data sets Published In 2014 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) Pages 956 - 961 Altmetric
2011	Multiple-measurement vector model and its application to through-the-wall radar imaging Published In Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Pages 2672 - 2675 Altmetric
2010	A particle swarm optimization algorithm based on orthogonal design Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 593 - 599 Altmetric
2010	A training algorithm for sparse LS-SVM using compressive sampling Published In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Pages 2054 - 2057 Altmetric
2010	Dimensionality reduction using compressed sensing and its application to a large-scale visual recognition task Published In IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Pages 1607 - 1614 Altmetric
2010	Multi-view through-the-wall radar imaging using compressed sensing Published In 18th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2010 Pages 1429 - 1433
2009	A neural network pruning approach based on compressive sampling Published In International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2009 Pages 3428 - 3435 Altmetric
2009	Dynamic supplying desired web service for e-business Published In Second International Symposium on Electronic Commerce and Security, 2009. ISECS '09 Pages 369 - 373 Altmetric

Investigator On

Year	Title
2018 - 2020	Mobile Webtoons: Creative Innovation in a New Digital Economy Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

Global Challenges Program - Keystone Funding, People with dementia can be Included & Enabled through social Connections, Environments & Services (PIECES) Chief Investigator 2019 - 2020
Educational Strategies Development Fund (ESDF) Grants, 2018, University of Wollongong Chief Investigator 2018 - 2019
ARC-Discover Project (DP170102176) Senior research fellow 2017 - 2019
ARC-Linkage Project (LP150100681) Senior research fellow 2015 - 2018

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy (Integrated)	Prediction on Cancer: An approach on data analysis	Hu, Minot

Keywords

Big data analysis; Machine Learning; Text Mining; Social Network analysis;

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1317-8142 (pending confirmation)

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Selected Publications

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Selected Publications

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Conference Paper

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Investigator On

Other Research Activities

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Graduate Advising Relationship

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