Qiang Yang
 Qiang Yang（Chinese: 杨强 /yáng qiáng /）is a professor of CSE HKUST in Hong Kong and the head of Noah’s Ark Lab. He had taught at the University of Waterloo and Simon Fraser University. His research interests are data mining and artificial intelligence.Qiang Yang was born in Beijing China. He is the son of Haishou Yang (Chinese: 杨海寿) an Astronomer in China.Qiang Yang attended High School Attached to Tsinghua University in 1975 and then Peking University in 1978.