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My name is Yixiang Yao (IPA /i:ʃiɑŋ jaʊ/ee-shaang y-ow), 姚一翔 in Chinese, a.k.a. YYX.

I'm a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Center on Knowledge Graphs, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, advised by Prof. Srivatsan Ravi. I also worked with Prof. Pedro Szekely previously in a lot of exciting projects. Prior to this, I worked for startup companies, enterprises and research institute for years.

My research interests include, but are not limited to, Information Extraction and Integration, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Processing, and Privacy-enhancing technologies.

yyx@lab ~ $ ls -t ~/Preprints/* | xargs cat

  • Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution on Confidential Healthcare Datasets Using Homomorphic Encryption
    Yixiang Yao, Joseph Cecil, Praveen Angyan, Neil Bahroos, and Srivatsan Ravi.
    arXiv:2405.18430
    @misc{yao2024feasibilityprivacypreservingentityresolution,
          title={Feasibility of Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution on Confidential Healthcare Datasets Using Homomorphic Encryption}, 
          author={Yixiang Yao and Joseph Cecil and Praveen Angyan and Neil Bahroos and Srivatsan Ravi},
          year={2024},
          eprint={2405.18430},
          archivePrefix={arXiv},
          primaryClass={cs.CE},
          url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18430}, 
    }
  • Privacy-preserving Language Model Inference with Instance Obfuscation
    Yixiang Yao, Fei Wang, Srivatsan Ravi, and Muhao Chen.
    arXiv:2402.08227
    @misc{yao2024privacypreservinglanguagemodelinference,
          title={Privacy-Preserving Language Model Inference with Instance Obfuscation}, 
          author={Yixiang Yao and Fei Wang and Srivatsan Ravi and Muhao Chen},
          year={2024},
          eprint={2402.08227},
          archivePrefix={arXiv},
          primaryClass={cs.CL},
          url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08227}, 
    }
  • Labeling without Seeing? Blind Annotation for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution
    Yixiang Yao, Weizhao Jin, and Srivatsan Ravi.
    arXiv:2308.03734
    @misc{yao2023labeling,
          title={Labeling without Seeing? Blind Annotation for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution}, 
          author={Yixiang Yao and Weizhao Jin and Srivatsan Ravi},
          year={2023},
          eprint={2308.03734},
          archivePrefix={arXiv},
          primaryClass={cs.IR}
    }
  • Evaluating the Feasibility of a Provably Secure Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Adaptation of PPJoin using Homomorphic Encryption
    Tanmay Ghai, Yixiang Yao, Srivatsan Ravi, and Pedro Szekely.
    arXiv:2208.07999
    @misc{ghai2022evaluating,
          title={Evaluating the Feasibility of a Provably Secure Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Adaptation of PPJoin using Homomorphic Encryption}, 
          author={Tanmay Ghai and Yixiang Yao and Srivatsan Ravi and Pedro Szekely},
          year={2022},
          eprint={2208.07999},
          archivePrefix={arXiv},
          primaryClass={cs.CR}
    }

yyx@lab ~ $ ls -t ~/Publications/* | xargs cat

  • Lessons Learned: Building a Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Adaptation of PPJoin using End-to-End Homomorphic Encryption
    Tanmay Ghai*, Yixiang Yao*, and Srivatsan Ravi.
    In Proceedings of 2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops.
    EuroS&PW 2023.
    @inproceedings{ghai2023lessons,
      title={Lessons Learned: Building a Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Adaptation of PPJoin using End-to-End Homomorphic Encryption},
      author={Ghai, Tanmay and Yao, Yixiang and Ravi, Srivatsan},
      booktitle={2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS\&PW)},
      pages={117--124},
      year={2023},
      organization={IEEE Computer Society}
    }
  • AMPPERE: A Universal Abstract Machine for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Evaluation
    Yixiang Yao, Tanmay Ghai, Srivatsan Ravi, and Pedro Szekely.
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management.
    CIKM 2021.
    @inproceedings{yao2021amppere,
      title={AMPPERE: A Universal Abstract Machine for Privacy-Preserving Entity Resolution Evaluation},
      author={Yao, Yixiang and Ghai, Tanmay and Ravi, Srivatsan and Szekely, Pedro},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information \& Knowledge Management},
      pages={2394--2403},
      year={2021}
    }
  • GAIA at SM-KBP 2020 – A Dockerized Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction, Clustering, Temporal Tracking and Hypothesis Generation System.
    Manling Li, Ying Lin, Tuan Manh Lai, Xiaoman Pan, Haoyang Wen, Sha Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Pengfei Yu, Lifu Huang, Di Lu, Qingyun Wang, Haoran Zhang, Qi Zeng, Chi Han, Zixuan Zhang, Yujia Qin, Xiaodan Hu, Nikolaus Parulian, Daniel Campos, Heng Ji, Brian Chen, Xudong Lin, Alireza Zareian, Amith Ananthram, Emily Allaway, Shih-Fu Chang, Kathleen McKeown, Yixiang Yao, Michael Spector, Mitchell DeHaven, Daniel Napierski, Marjorie Freedman, Pedro Szekely, Haidong Zhu, Ram Nevatia, Yang Bai, Yifan Wang, Ali Sadeghian, Haodi Ma, Daisy Zhe Wang.
    In Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population Workshop.
    TAC-KBP 2020.
    @inproceedings{li2020gaia,
      title={GAIA at SMKBP 2020-a dockerlized multi-media multi-lingual knowledge extraction, clustering, temporal tracking and hypothesis generation system},
      author={Li, Manling and Lin, Ying and Lai, Tuan Manh and Pan, Xiaoman and Wen, Haoyang and Li, Sha and Wang, Zhenhailong and Yu, Pengfei and Huang, Lifu and Lu, Di and others},
      booktitle={Proceedings of Thirteenth Text Analysis Conference (TAC 2020)},
      year={2020}
    }
  • KGTK: a toolkit for large knowledge graph manipulation and analysis.
    Filip Ilievski, Daniel Garijo, Hans Chalupsky, Naren Teja Divvala, Yixiang Yao, Craig Rogers, Ronpeng Li, Jun Liu, Amandeep Singh, Daniel Schwabe, Pedro Szekely.
    In International Semantic Web Conference (Resource Track), pp. 278-293. Springer, Cham.
    ISWC 2020.
    @inproceedings{ilievski2020kgtk,
      title={KGTK: a toolkit for large knowledge graph manipulation and analysis},
      author={Ilievski, Filip and Garijo, Daniel and Chalupsky, Hans and Divvala, Naren Teja and Yao, Yixiang and Rogers, Craig and Li, Ronpeng and Liu, Jun and Singh, Amandeep and Schwabe, Daniel and others},
      booktitle={International Semantic Web Conference},
      pages={278--293},
      year={2020},
      organization={Springer}
    }
  • T2WML: Table To Wikidata Mapping Language.
    Pedro Szekely, Daniel Garijo, Divij Bhatia, Jiasheng Wu, Yixiang Yao, Jay Pujara.
    In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture, pp. 267-270.
    K-CAP 2019.
    @inproceedings{szekely2019t2wml,
      title={T2WML: Table To Wikidata Mapping Language},
      author={Szekely, Pedro and Garijo, Daniel and Bhatia, Divij and Wu, Jiasheng and Yao, Yixiang and Pujara, Jay},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Capture},
      pages={267--270},
      year={2019}
    }
  • Extensible and Scalable Entity Resolution for Financial Datasets Using RLTK.
    Yixiang Yao, Pedro Szekely, Jay Pujara.
    In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Data Science for Macro-modeling with Financial and Economic Datasets (Abstract paper), pp. 1-1.
    SIGMOD-DSMM 2019.
    @inproceedings{yao2019extensible,
      title={Extensible and Scalable Entity Resolution for Financial Datasets Using RLTK},
      author={Yao, Yixiang and Szekely, Pedro and Pujara, Jay},
      booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Data Science for Macro-modeling with Financial and Economic Datasets},
      pages={1--1},
      year={2019}
    }
  • GAIA at SM-KBP 2019 - A Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System.
    Manling Li, Ying Lin, Ananya Subburathinam, Spencer Whitehead, Xiaoman Pan, Di Lu, Qingyun Wang, Tongtao Zhang, Lifu Huang, Heng Ji, Alireza Zareian, Hassan Akbari, Brian Chen, Bo Wu, Emily Allaway, Shih-Fu Chang, Kathleen McKeown, Yixiang Yao, Jennifer Chen, Eric Berquist, Kexuan Sun, Xujun Peng, Ryan Gabbard, Marjorie Freedman, Pedro Szekely, T.K. Satish Kumar, Arka Sadhu, Ram Nevatia, Miguel Rodriguez, Yifan Wang, Yang Bai, Ali Sadeghian, Daisy Zhe Wang.
    In Proceedings of Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population Workshop.
    TAC-KBP 2019.
    @inproceedings{li2019gaia,
      title={GAIA at SM-KBP 2019-A Multi-media Multi-lingual Knowledge Extraction and Hypothesis Generation System.},
      author={Li, Manling and Lin, Ying and Subburathinam, Ananya and Whitehead, Spencer and Pan, Xiaoman and Lu, Di and Wang, Qingyun and Zhang, Tongtao and Huang, Lifu and Ji, Heng and others},
      booktitle={TAC},
      year={2019}
    }
  • Lessons learned in building linked data for the American art collaborative.
    Craig A Knoblock, Pedro Szekely, Eleanor Fink, Duane Degler, David Newbury, Robert Sanderson, Kate Blanch, Sara Snyder, Nilay Chheda, Nimesh Jain, Ravi Raju Krishna, Nikhila Begur Sreekanth, Yixiang Yao.
    In International Semantic Web Conference, pp. 263-279. Springer, Cham.
    ISWC 2017.
    @inproceedings{knoblock2017lessons,
      title={Lessons learned in building linked data for the American art collaborative},
      author={Knoblock, Craig A and Szekely, Pedro and Fink, Eleanor and Degler, Duane and Newbury, David and Sanderson, Robert and Blanch, Kate and Snyder, Sara and Chheda, Nilay and Jain, Nimesh and others},
      booktitle={International Semantic Web Conference},
      pages={263--279},
      year={2017},
      organization={Springer}
    }
  • A Demonstration of Tools for Building Linked Data for the American Art Collaborative.
    Craig A Knoblock, Pedro A Szekely, Eleanor E Fink, Duane Degler, David Newbury, Robert Sanderson, Kate Blanch, Sara Snyder, Nilay Chheda, Nimesh Jain, Ravi Raju Krishna, Nikhila Begur Sreekanth, Yixiang Yao.
    In International Semantic Web Conference (Posters, Demos & Industry Tracks).
    ISWC 2017.
    @inproceedings{knoblock2017demonstration,
      title={A Demonstration of Tools for Building Linked Data for the American Art Collaborative.},
      author={Knoblock, Craig A and Szekely, Pedro A and Fink, Eleanor E and Degler, Duane and Newbury, David and Sanderson, Robert and Blanch, Kate and Snyder, Sara and Chheda, Nilay and Jain, Nimesh and others}
    }
  • Dynamic USBKEY System on Multiple Verification Algorithm.
    Yixiang Yao, Jinghua Gao, Ying Gong.
    Emerging Technologies for Information Systems, Computing, and Management. pp. 297-304. Springer, New York, NY.
    2013.
    @incollection{yao2013dynamic,
      title={Dynamic USBKEY System on Multiple Verification Algorithm},
      author={Yao, Yixiang and Gao, Jinghua and Gong, Ying},
      booktitle={Emerging Technologies for Information Systems, Computing, and Management},
      pages={297--304},
      year={2013},
      publisher={Springer}
    }

yyx@lab ~ $ ls ~/Projects/* | head -n 2 | xargs cat

  • RLTK: Record Linkage Toolkit
  • Pyrallel: Yet another easy-to-use python3 parallel library for humans.

yyx@lab ~ $ cat ~/Contact

yixiangyisi.edu

4676 Admiralty Way #1001, Marina del Rey, CA 90292, USA

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