Yang Fan is currently an assistant professor and a Master's supervisor with the School of Journalism and New Media, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Research Interest:

l International communication: narrative network, modeling the forming of public opinion, political microtargeting.

l Information privacy: collective privacy, context collapse.

Publications:

l Yang, F. & Niu, Y. (2022). US Attitudes and Cognitions Regarding China on Twitter: From the Perspective of Political Spectrum. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication, 44(06), 50–70.

l Yang, F. (17 February 2022). How to manage gatekeepers in computing journalism? Social Sciences in China. p.003.

l Yang, F., Li, S., Yang, Z., Qian, C. & Gu, T. (2019). Spatial Multiplexing for Non-Line-of-Sight Light-to-Camera Communications. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 18(11), 2660–2671.

l Yang, F., Li, S., Zhang, H., Niu, Y., Qian, C., & Yang, Z. (2019). LIPO: Indoor position and orientation estimation via superposed reflected light. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 1–16.

l Yang, F., Li, S., Zhang, H., Niu, Y., Qian, C., & Yang, Z. (2019). Visible Light Positioning via Floor Reflections. IEEE Access, 7, 97390–97400.

Teaching:

l Python programming language

l Webpage design and development

l Python data science

Contact:

Email: craftsman@xjtu.edu.cn