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I am currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2019-2020, I worked at Communications and Networking Lab (Supervisor: Randall Berry, IEEE Fellow), Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, as a Visiting Research Associate. I obtained my PhD degree in University of Science and Technology Beijing, China (2020; Supervisor: Haijun Zhang, IEEE Fellow).

Openings

I am looking for motivated students and internships
Please email me with your CV, publications (if any), and a brief statement of interest.

Select Publications [see Google Scholar for the Full List]

N. Yang, J. Wen, M. Zhang, M. Tang, "Generalizable pareto-optimal offloading with reinforcement learning in mobile edge computing," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2025. (SCI 2 区)
N. Yang, S. Chen, H. Zhang, and R. Berry, "Beyond the edge: An advanced exploration of reinforcement learning for mobile edge computing, its applications, and future research trajectories," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, April 2024. (SCI 1 区, IF:35.6)
N. Yang, X. Yuan, H. Lin, H. Zhang, P. Lv, J. Wang, "FedDM: Federated learning incorporating dissimilarity measure for mobile edge computing system," IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2025. (SCI 1区)
H. Zhang, N. Yang, K. Long, M. Pan, G. K. Karagiannidis and V. C. M. Leung, "Secure communications in NOMA system: Subcarrier assignment and power allocation," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2018. (SCI 1 区, IF = 16.4)
H. Zhang, N. Yang, W. Huangfu, K. Long, and V. C. M. Leung, "Power control based on deep reinforcement learning for spectrum sharing," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2020. (SCI 1区, top 1% most cited articles published in 2020, IF = 10.4)
Y. Zeng, G. Liu, W. Ma, N. Yang, H. Zhang, J. Wang, "Token-level direct preference optimization," International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024. (ICML, CCF A)
Z. Ni, Y. Li, N. Yang, D. Shen, P. Lv, D. Dong, "Tree-of-code: A tree-structured exploring framework for end-to-end code generation and execution in complex task handling," Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. (ACL, CCF A)
Z. Zhao, C. Ma, Q. Mi, N. Yang, X. Yan, M. Yang, H. Zhang, J. Wang, Y. Yang, "Correlated mean field imitation learning," International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2025. (AAMAS, CCF B)

Research Projects (Host/Participate)

2024.01-2026.12	"Research on Dynamic Resource Management of Mobile Edge Network Based on Reinforcement Learning" (Grant No. 62301559) Supported by Natural Science Foundation of China, RMB 300,000. Project Leader
2022.04-2023.12	"Research on Combinatorial Optimization Based on Reinforcement Learning" (Grant No. 4224092) Supported by Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation, RMB 100,000. Project Leader
2023.04-2025.11	"Research on Operational Optimization Algorithms Based on Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning" (Grant No. 2022ZD0116402) Supported by Science and Technology Innovation 2030-Major Project, RMB 1,750,000. Project Leader
2023.09-2024.06	"Research on Bionic Fluid Dynamics Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning", West Lake University, RMB 150,000. Project Leader
2023.07-2025.12	"Research on Key Technologies for Train Operation Diagram Compilation Based on Accurate Matching of Market and Transport Capacity" (Grant No. P2022X012), China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., RMB 200,000. Project Leader
2021.12-2023.06	"Development of Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for Crude Oil Industry Chain" (Grant No. E2D12301), PetroChina Planning Institute, RMB 1,590,000. Participant
2023.06-2023.09	"Intelligent Scheduling Model for Crude Oil Industry Chain", PetroChina Planning Institute, RMB 300,000. Participant
2021.07-2025.12	"Network Electricity Deduction Based on **" (Grant No. 2022ZD0116402), Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Priority Research Program, RMB 19,794,000. Participant

Services

Programme Committee (PC):

Distributed Artificial Intelligence
IEEE Conference on Games

Reviewer for Journals:

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Impact Factor = 16.4
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics: Impact Factor = 12.3
IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Impact Factor = 11.9
IEEE Communications Magazine: Impact Factor = 11.2
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications: Impact Factor = 10.4
Journal of Network and Computer Applications: Impact Factor = 8.7
Expert Systems with Applications: Impact Factor = 8.5
IEEE Transactions on Communications: Impact Factor = 8.3
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing: Impact Factor = 7.9

Reviewer for Conferences:

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML, CCF A)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS, CCF A)
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR, CCF A)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, CCF A)

Ning Yang

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