Research Interests: recommender systems, fake news detection and mitigation, data analytics and prediction, social networks, trust management

Education and Work Experience: Dr. Yan Wang is currently a Full Professor in the School of Computing, Macquarie University, Australia. He received his PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. Prior to joining Macquarie University in 2003, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He has published a number of research papers in international conferences including AAAI, AAMAS, ICDE, IJCAI, KDD, NeurIPS, WWW, and journals including CSUR, TIST, TKDE, TOIS, TSC and TWEB. His research interests cover recommender systems, fake news detection and mitigation, data analytics and prediction, social networks, trust management.

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Dr. Yan Wang has served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) by IEEE, Service-Oriented Computing & Applications (SOCA) by Springer (2011-2018), Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS) by Springer, and Frontiers in Big Data by Frontiers. He also served as a guest co-editor of a special track on trusted computing of IEEE Access in 2017, and a special track on e-commerce of IEEE Internet Computing in 2008. Dr. Yan Wang has served as a General co-Chair of IEEE ATC2013, IEEE ATC2014, IEEE MS2015, IEEE ICWS2016 and IEEE CLOUD2017, AWC2018 and AWC2019, a Program co-Chair of IEEE SCC 2011, ATC 2011, IEEE MS2014, IEEE SCC2018, IEEE SOSE2018, IEEE SCC2019, and a Local Organisation Chair of IEEE DSAA2020.