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Dr. Yang is a Senior Data Scientist at Twitter, where he leads the research on machine learning infrastructure and social targeting. Prior to Twitter, he worked on machine learning and predictive analytics at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Labs. He earned his Ph.D in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2012. He has published actively at leading machine learning conferences and journals. He is the recipient of the ACM SIGIR 2011 Best Student Paper award, the UAI 2010 Best Student Paper award (nominated) and the PAKDD 2008 Best Student Paper award.