The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the premier scientific society dedicated to advancing the understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines, has honored a UC Merced professor for his work in AI.
Electrical engineering and computer science Professor Ming-Hsuan Yang has been named a 2025 Fellow by the AAAI. It is the first such fellowship for UC Merced.
The program recognizes members who have "unusual distinction in the profession," generally for a decade or more. Fellows are selected by a committee comprising nine current fellows and chaired by the past president of AAAI. Sixteen fellows were selected this year.
Yang's lab focuses on computer vision, a type of AI that allows computers to understand and interpret visual data.
Yang earned his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and studied computer science and power mechanical engineering at the National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan; computer science and brain theory at the University of Southern California; and artificial intelligence and operations research at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined UC Merced in 2008.
The newest class of AAAI fellows was celebrated at an awards ceremony on Feb. 27.
