• BS, Electronic Engineering and Information Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004
• Ph D, Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010

Books

Himal Suraweera, Jing Yang, Alessio Zappone and John Thompson, 2020, Green Communications for Energy-Efficient Wireless Systems and Networks

Journal Articles

Chengshuai Shi, Wei Xiong, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2023, "Reward Teaching for Federated Multi-armed Bandit", Trans. on Signal Processing, 71, pp. 4407-4422

Xizixiang Wei, Cong Shen, Jing Yang and Vincent Poor, 2023, "Random Orthogonalization for Federated Learning in Massive MIMO Systems", IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, pp. 17

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2022, "Precoding and Scheduling for AoI Minimization in MIMO Broadcast Channels", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 68, (8), pp. 18

Yanxiao Feng, Shichao Liu, Julian Wang, Jing Yang, Ying-Ling Jao and Nan Wang, 2022, "Data-driven personal thermal comfort prediction: A literature review", Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161

Ahmed Arafa, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus and Vincent Poor, 2022, "Timely Status Updating Over Erasure Channels Using an Energy Harvesting Sensor: Single and Multiple Sources", IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking, 6, (1), pp. 6-19

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2021, "Age of Information Minimization for an Energy Harvesting Source with Updating Erasures: Without and With Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Communications

Chao Gan, Ruida Zhou, Jing Yang and Cong Shen, 2020, "Cost-aware Cascading Bandits", IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 68, pp. 3692 -3706

Ahmed Arafa, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus and Vincent Poor, 2020, "Age-Minimal Transmission for Energy Harvesting Sensors with Finite Batteries: Online Policies", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 66, (1), pp. 534-556

Zuoen Wang, Jingxian Wu, Jing Yang and Yinli Cao, 2019, "Optimum Distributed Estimation of a Spatially Correlated Random Field", IEEE Trans. on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 5, (4), pp. 739-752

Silas Fong, Jing Yang and Aylin Yener, 2019, "Non-Asymptotic Achievable Rates for Gaussian Energy-Harvesting Channels: Best-Effort and Save-and-Transmit", IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, 65, (11), pp. 7233-7252

Boyu Wang, Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2019, "When to Preempt? Age of Information Minimization under Link Capacity Constraint", Journal of Communications and Networks, Special issue on Age of Information, 21, (3), pp. 220-232

Chao Gan, Ruida Zhou, Jing Yang and Cong Shen, 2019, "Cost-Aware Learning and Optimization for Opportunistic Spectrum Access", IEEE Trans. on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 5, (1), pp. 15-27

Donghong Cai, Jingxian Wu, Jing Yang and Pingzhi Fan, 2018, "Optimum Spectral and Energy Efficiency Tradeoff in Two-User Gaussian Interference Channel", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Xianwen Wu, Jing Yang and Jingxian Wu, 2018, "Optimal Status Update for Age of Information Minimization with an Energy Harvesting Source", IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking, 2, (1), pp. 193-204

Samrat Nath, Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2018, "Delay and Energy Efficiency Tradeoff for Information Pushing System", IEEE Trans. on Green Communications and Networking

Jing Yang, Stark C Draper and Robert Nowak, 2017, "Learning the interference graph of a wireless network", IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 3, (3)

Zuoen Wang, Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2017, "Dynamic Sparse Sensing of Spatial-temporally Correlated Random Fields", IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 53, (2), pp. 862-876

Silas L Fong, Vincent YF Tan and Jing Yang, 2016, "Non-asymptotic achievable rates for energy-harvesting channels using save-and-transmit", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 34, (12), pp. 3499–3511

Jing Yang, Xianwen Wu and Jingxian Wu, 2016, "Optimal Online Sensing Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Sensors With Infinite and Finite Batteries", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 34, (5), pp. 1578–1589

Zuoen Wang, Jingxian Wu, Jing Yang and Hai Lin, 2015, "Energy-efficient wireless sensing for level set estimations", IEEE Access, 3, pp. 1480–1490

Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2015, "On the asymptotic equivalence between stochastic and deterministic energy sources in energy harvesting sensing systems", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2015, (1), pp. 1–10

Jing Yang, Xianwen Wu and Jingxian Wu, 2015, "Optimal scheduling of collaborative sensing in energy harvesting sensor networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 33, (3), pp. 512–523

Israel Akingeneye, Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2015, "Energy Efficient Optimum Sensing With Energy Harvesting Power Sources", IEEE Access, 3, pp. 989–997

Berk Gurakan, Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2013, "Energy cooperation in energy harvesting communications", IEEE Transactions on Communications, 61, (12), pp. 4884–4898

Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2013, "Optimal transmission schemes for parallel and fading Gaussian broadcast channels with an energy harvesting rechargeable transmitter", Computer Communications, 36, (12), pp. 1360–1372

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2012, "Optimal packet scheduling in an energy harvesting communication system", IEEE Transactions on Communications, 60, (1), pp. 220–230

Jing Yang, Omur Ozel and Sennur Ulukus, 2012, "Broadcasting with an energy harvesting rechargeable transmitter", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 11, (2), pp. 571–583

Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2012, "Optimal broadcast scheduling for an energy harvesting rechargeable transmitter with a finite capacity battery", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 11, (6), pp. 2193–2203

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2012, "Optimal packet scheduling in a multiple access channel with energy harvesting transmitters", Journal of Communications and Networks, 14, (2), pp. 140–150

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2011, "Trading rate for balanced queue lengths for network delay minimization", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 29, (5), pp. 988–996

Omur Ozel, Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus and Aylin Yener, 2011, "Transmission with energy harvesting nodes in fading wireless channels: Optimal policies", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 29, (8), pp. 1732–1743

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2010, "Delay-minimal transmission for average power constrained multi-access communications", IEEE transactions on wireless communications, 9, (9), pp. 2754–2767

Conference Proceedings

Yuan Cheng, Jing Yang and Yingbin Liang, 2023, "Provably Efficient Algorithm for Nonstationary Low-Rank MDP", The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)

Kun Yang, Cong Shen, Jing Yang, Shu-ping Yeh and Jerry Sydir, 2023, "Offline Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Network Optimization with Mixture Datasets"

Xiaoyi Wu, Jing Yang, Huacheng Zeng and Bin Li, 2023, "Joint User Association and Wireless Scheduling with Smaller Time-Scale Rate Adaptation", The 21th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt)

Donghao Li, Ruiquan Huang, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2023, "Near-optimal Conservative Exploration in Reinforcement Learning under Episode-wise Constraints", The 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Ruiquan Huang, Huanyu Zhang, Luca Melis, Milan Shen, Meisam Hejazinia and Jing Yang, 2023, "Federated Linear Contextual Bandits with User-level Differential Privacy", The 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Songtao Feng, Ming Yin, Ruiquan Huang, Yu-Xiang Wang, Jing Yang and Yingbin Liang, 2023, "Non-stationary Reinforcement Learning under General Function Approximation", The 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Chengshuai Shi, Wei Xiong, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2023, "Provably Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning with Perturbed Data Sources", The 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Renpu Liu, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2023, "Exploiting Feature Heterogeneity for Improved Generalization in Federated Multi-task Learning", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Chengshuai Shi, Wei Xiong, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2023, "Reward Teaching for Federated Multi-Armed Bandit", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)

Xizixiang Wei, Tianhao Wang, Ruiquan Huang, Cong Shen, Jing Yang and Vincent Poor, 2023, "FLORAS: Differentially Private Wireless Federated Learning Using Orthogonal Sequences", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

Ruiquan Huang, Jing Yang and Yingbin Liang, 2023, "Safe Exploration Incurs Nearly No Additional Sample Complexity for Reward-free RL", The 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Ruiquan Huang, Yuan Cheng, Jing Yang and Yingbin Liang, 2023, "Improved Sample Complexity for Reward-free Reinforcement Learning under Low-rank MDPs", The 11th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Yuan Cheng, Songtao Feng, Jing Yang, Hong Zhang and Yingbin Liang, 2022, "Provable Benefit of Multitask Representation Learning in Reinforcement Learning"

Kun Yang, Donghao Li, Cong Shen, Jing Yang, Shu-ping Yeh and Jerry Sydir, 2022, "Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Wireless User Scheduling: Performance, Scalablility, and Generalization"

Duo Cheng, Ruiquan Huang, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2022, "Cascading Bandits With Two-Level Feedback"

Cong Shen, Jing Yang and Jie Xu, 2022, "On Federated Learning with Energy Harvesting Clients"

Xizixiang Wei, Cong Shen, Jing Yang and Vincent Poor, 2022, "Random Orthogonalization for Federated Learning in Massive MIMO Systems"

Xinyi Yao, Jiangong Chen, Ting He, Jing Yang and Bin Li, 2022, "A Scalable Mixed Reality Platform for Remote Collaborative LEGO Design"

Ruiquan Huang, Weiqiang Wu, Jing Yang and Cong Shen, 2021, "Federated Linear Contextual Bandits"

Chengshuai Shi, Wei Xiong, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2021, "Heterogeneous Multi-player Multi-armed Bandits: Closing the Gap and Generalization"

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2021, "Adaptive Surveillance Testing for Efficient Infection Rate Estimation"

Jing Yang and Ashley Prater-Bennette, 2021, "Pooled Testing with Compressive Sensing"

Chengshuai Shi, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2021, "Federated Multi-armed Bandits with Personalization"

Chao Gan, Jing Yang and Cong Shen, 2020, "Thresholded Wirtinger Flow for Fast Millimeter Wave Beam Alignment"

Cong Shen, Donghao Li and Jing Yang, 2020, "MIMO Receive Antenna Selection via Deep Learning and Greedy Adaptation"

Boyu Wang, Yan Li and Jing Yang, 2020, "LSTM-based Quick Event Detection in Power Systems"

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2020, "AoI Minimization in Broadcast Channels with Channel State Information"

Weiqiang Wu, Jing Yang and Cong Shen, 2020, "Stochastic Linear Contextual Bandits with Diverse Contexts"

Chengshuai Chi, Wei Xiong, Cong Shen and Jing Yang, 2020, "Decentralized Multi-player Multi-armed Bandits with No Collision Information"

Chenghao Deng, Jing Yang and Changyong Pan, 2020, "Timely Synchronization with Sporadic Status Changes"

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2020, "Information Freshness for Timely Detection of Status Changes"

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2019, "Adaptive Coding for Information Freshness in a Two-user Broadcast Erasure Channel"

Chao Wang, Ruida Zhou, Jing Yang and Cong Shen, 2019, "A Cascading Bandit Approach to Efficient Mobility Management in Ultra-Dense Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)

Ahmed Arafa, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukuks and Vincent Poor, 2019, "Using Erasure Feedback for Online Timely Updating with an Energy Harvesting Sensor"

Chao Gan, Jing Yang, Ruida Zhou and Cong Shen, 2019, "Online Learning with Diverse User Preferences"

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2019, "Age-Optimal Transmission of Rateless Codes in an Erasure Channel"

Ahmed Arafa, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukuks and Vincent Poor, 2018, "Online Timely Status Updates with Erasures for Energy Harvesting Sensors"

Ruida Zhou, Chao Gan, Jing Yang and Cong Shen, 2018, "Cost-aware Cascading Bandits"

Boyu Wang, Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2018, "To Skip or to Switch? Minimizing Age of Information under Link Capacity Constraint"

Silas Fong, Jing Yang and Aylin Yener, 2018, "Non-Asymptotic Achievable Rates for Gaussian Energy-Harvesting Channels: Best-Effort and Save-and-Transmit"

A Baknina, Omur Ozel, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus and Aylin Yener, 2018, "Sending Information Through Status Updates"

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2018, "Minimizing Age of Information for an Energy Harvesting Source with Updating Error"

Ahmed Arafa, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2018, "Age-Minimal Online Policies for Energy Harvesting Sensors with Random Battery Recharges"

Ahmed Arafa, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2018, "Optimum Energy Efficiency and Age-of-Information Tradeoff in Multicast Scheduling"

Songtao Feng and Jing Yang, 2018, "Optimal Status Updating for an Energy Harvesting Sensor with a Noisy Channel"

Boyu Wang and Jing Yang, 2018, "Optimal Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling with Time-varying Profits", pp. 1–6

Israel Akingeneye, Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2017, "Optimum PMU Placement for Power System State Estimation"

Boyu Wang, Chao Gan, Jing Yang, Chinmay Hedge and Jingxian Wu, 2017, "Graph-based Multiple-Line Outage Identification in Power Transmission Systems"

Xianwen Wu, Jing Yang and Jingxian Wu, 2017, "Optimal Transmission for Energy Harvesting Nodes under Battery Size and Usage Constraints"

Samrat Nath, Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2017, "Optimizing Age-of-Information and Energy Efficiency Tradeoff for Mobile Pushing Notifications"

Zuoen Wang, Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2017, "Distributed Estimation of a Spatially Correlated Random Field in Decentralized Sensor Networks"

Xianwen Wu, Jing Yang and Jingxian Wu, 2017, "Optimal Status Updating to Minimize Age of Information with an Energy Harvesting Source"

Israel Akingeneye, Jingxian Wu, Jing Yang and Hai Lin, 2016, "Optimum Poisson Sensing with Energy Harvesting Power Sources", Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2016 IEEE

Silas L Fong, Vincent YF Tan and Jing Yang, 2016, "A non-asymptotic achievable rate for the AWGN energy-harvesting channel using save-and-transmit", pp. 455–459

Zuoen Wang, Jingxian Wu, Jing Yang and Hai Lin, 2016, "Optimal energy efficient level set estimation of spatially-temporally correlated random fields", pp. 1–6

Xianwen Wu, Jing Yang and Jingxian Wu, 2016, "Optimal energy management for energy harvesting transmitters under battery usage constraint", pp. 475–479

Jing Yang, Xianwen Wu and Jingxian Wu, 2015, "Adaptive sensing scheduling for energy harvesting sensors with finite battery", pp. 98–103

Jing Yang and Jingxian Wu, 2015, "Online throughput maximization in an energy harvesting multiple access channel with fading", pp. 2727–2731

Zuoen Wang, Jingxian Wu, Jing Yang and Hai Lin, 2015, "Optimum Level Set Estimation of a Time-Varying Random Field under a Power Constraint", pp. 1–6

Jingxian Wu, Israel Akingeneye and Jing Yang, 2015, "Optimum sensing of a time-varying random event with energy harvesting power sources", pp. 1134–1138

Qinghua Li, Chase Ross, Jing Yang, Jia Di, Juan Carlos Balda and H Alan Mantooth, 2015, "The effects of flooding attacks on time-critical communications in the smart grid", pp. 1–5

Jing Yang and Jingxian Wu, 2014, "Optimal sampling of random processes under stochastic energy constraints", pp. 3377–3382

Jing Yang, 2014, "Achievable rate for energy harvesting channel with finite blocklength", pp. 811–815

Jing Yang, Zuoen Wang and Jingxian Wu, 2014, "Level set estimation with dynamic sparse sensing", pp. 487–491

Jing Yang, 2014, "Optimal sensing scheduling in energy harvesting sensor networks", pp. 4077–4082

Jingxian Wu and Jing Yang, 2014, "The asymptotic equivalence between sensing systems with energy harvesting and conventional energy sources", pp. 1753–1758

Jing Yang, 2013, "Optimal Collaborative Sensing Scheduling with Energy Harvesting Nodes", pp. 395–398

Berk Gurakan, Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2013, "Energy cooperation in energy harvesting two-way communications", pp. 3126–3130

Jing Yang, Stark Draper and Robert Nowak, 2012, "Passive Learning of the Interference Graph of a Wireless Network", pp. 2735–2740

Jing Yang, Yanpei Liu and Stark C Draper, 2012, "Optimal scheduling policies with mutual information accumulation in wireless networks", pp. 1062–1070

Berk Gurakan, Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2012, "Energy cooperation in energy harvesting wireless communications", pp. 965–969

Berk Gurakan, Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2012, "Two-way and multiple-access energy harvesting systems with energy cooperation", pp. 58–62

Omur Ozel, Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus and Aylin Yener, 2011, "Adaptive transmission policies for energy harvesting wireless nodes in fading channels", pp. 1–6

Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2011, "Broadcasting with a battery limited energy harvesting rechargeable transmitter", pp. 205–212

Yanpei Liu, Jing Yang and Stark C Draper, 2011, "Exploiting route diversity in multi-packet transmission using mutual information accumulation", pp. 1793–1800

Jing Yang, Omur Ozel and Sennur Ulukus, 2011, "Optimal packet scheduling in a broadcast channel with an energy harvesting transmitter", pp. 1–5

Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2011, "Optimal scheduling over fading broadcast channels with an energy harvesting transmitter", pp. 193–196

Omur Ozel, Kaya Tutuncuoglu, Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus and Aylin Yener, 2011, "Resource management for fading wireless channels with energy harvesting nodes", pp. 456–460

Omur Ozel, Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2011, "Optimal transmission policies over vector Gaussian broadcast channels with energy harvesting transmitters", pp. 3–7

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2011, "Optimal packet scheduling in a multiple access channel with rechargeable nodes", pp. 1–5

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2010, "Delay minimization with a general pentagon rate region", pp. 1808–1812

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2010, "Transmission completion time minimization in an energy harvesting system", pp. 1–6

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2009, "Delay minimization in multiple access channels", pp. 2366–2370

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2008, "Delay-minimal transmission for energy constrained wireless communications", pp. 3531–3535

Jing Yang and Sennur Ulukus, 2008, "Delay-minimal transmission for average power constrained multi-access communications"

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