Yan Yan

I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, where I lead the ROMA Lab.

Before joining WSU, I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa, working with Prof. Tianbao Yang.

I received my Ph.D. in 2018 from the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, under the supervision of Prof. Yi Yang.

I spent five years with the ReLER Lab, at the University of Technology Sydney, during which I also worked closely with Prof. Ivor W. Tsang.

In 2013, I received my B.E. in Computer Science from Tianjin University.

news

Nov 07, 2025 Two papers have been accepted to AAAI’26. Congratulations to Zijian (Undergrad student at EECS, incoming PhD student at ROMA starting Spring 2026), Xuesong (PhD student at ROMA), Xinyu (PhD student at ROMA) and Yuanjie (PhD student at ROMA).
Aug 21, 2025 Received an NSF research grant (Award #2519063).
Jun 06, 2025 Received an NSF CAREER Award (Award #2443828). I am grateful for the support from NSF.

selected publications

  1. AAAI26_costsensitive.png
    Cost-Sensitive Conformal Training with Provably Controllable Learning Bounds
    Xuesong Jia, Yuanjie Shi, Ziquan Liu, and 2 more authors
    In AAAI, 2026
    arXiv HTML PDF
  2. AAAI26_minlength_OCP.png
    Provably Minimum-Length Conformal Prediction Sets for Ordinal Classification
    Zijian Zhang, Xinyu Chen, Yuanjie Shi, and 3 more authors
    In AAAI, 2026
    arXiv HTML PDF
  3. ICML25_DPSM.png
    Direct Prediction Set Minimization via Bilevel Conformal Classifier Training
    Yuanjie Shi, Hooman Shahrokhi, Xuesong Jia, and 3 more authors
    In ICML, 2025
    arXiv HTML PDF