Professor Yang Yang is the Associate Vice-President for Teaching and Learning， the Acting Dean of College of Education Sciences, a professor with the Internet of Things Thrust, and the Director of the HKUST(GZ)-Terminus Joint Research Center for Digital World with Intelligent Things (DOIT) at HKUST(GZ), China. He assists Professor Jingshen Wu, the Vice President for Teaching and Learning, and works closely with different Thrusts/Hubs and the Residential College to develop and implement "Student-Growth-Centered & Individualized” undergraduate programs and “Whole-Person & All-Rounder” cultivation plans, including interdisciplinary curriculums, modularized courses, knowledge supermarket, innovative teaching methods, interactive and flipped classrooms. He actively contributes to the developments of teaching and learning policies, codes of conduct for teachers and students, and performance evaluation methods to ensure teaching quality and academic integrity. He also promotes and advocates the best practices of education innovations and pedagogy reforms at HKUST(GZ).

Professor Yang was a member of the Academic Board at University College London (UCL) and a member of the Advisory Committee of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to joining HKUST(GZ), he had served ShanghaiTech University for more than 10 years, as the Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology, the Director of Office of Academic and Student Affairs, the Executive Dean of School of Creativity and Art, and the Founding Master of Kedao College. He has accumulated rich experiences in different fields of higher education, such as student interview and recruitment processes, degree program developments, whole-person cultivation plans, interdisciplinary curriculum designs, technological and pedagogical innovations, performance evaluation methods, undergraduate mentoring and career services at the collegiate system.

Professor Yang’s research interests include AIoT technologies and applications, multi-tier computing networks, and 5G/6G mobile communications. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was a member of the Chief Technical Committee of the National Science and Technology Major Project “New Generation Mobile Wireless Broadband Communication Networks” in China, a member of the Chief Technical Committee of the National 863 Hi-Tech R&D Program “5G System R&D Major Projects” in China, a Board Member of the OpenFog Consortium and the Director of Greater China Region, the Chair of the Steering Committee for Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC). From 2008 to 2010, he collaborated with Airbus and Rolls-Royce in the UK and applied IoT technologies to the aviation industry for the first time. From 2012 to 2016, he led a technical team to design and implement distinctive IoT technologies for the water monitoring system of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China, which is from Danjiangkou Water Reservoir to Beijing and Tianjin cities (1432 KM, the longest IoT system in the world). From 2020 to 2023, he is the Principal Investigator of the project “5G-enabled IoT Infrastructure Development for the Smart Cities in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area”, under the National Key Research and Development Program of China.