Dr Yang has a very solid and broad knowledge and experience in computer science, and in-depth expertise in machine learning, data mining and temporal data processing. His main research area is in the temporal data mining and unsupervised ensemble learning. In these topics, he has produced some internationally excellent research results including proposing and developing several innovation methods and algorithms. These works have been published in the international leading research journals or conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics- Part C, and Knowledge-Based Systems. His research results have attracted a lot of attentions from the machine learning research community and made the significant impact. As an evidence to illustrate the attention that his work has received and the impact his work has produced, his IEEE Transaction publication “Temporal data clustering via weighted clustering ensemble with different representations? has been cited more than 42 times based on Google scholar.