Dr. Yang CAO (曹洋)

Associate Professor
TDSAI Lab
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Science Tokyo

I am looking for Postdoctoral Fellows, PhD students, and Research Assistants. Please see Recruitment for more details.

Research Interests

Differential Privacy, Federated Learning, Data Economy, Trustworthy AI.

Email: cao@c.titech.ac.jp


Short Bio

Yang Cao is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo, formerly Tokyo Tech), and directing the Trustworthy Data Science and AI (TDSAI) Lab. He is passionate about studying and teaching on algorithmic trustworthiness in data science and AI. Two of his papers on data privacy were selected as best paper finalists in top-tier conferences IEEE ICDE 2017 and ICME 2020. He was a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter Young Author Award 2019, Database Society of Japan Kambayashi Young Researcher Award 2021. His research projects were/are supported by JSPS, JST, MSRA, KDDI, LINE, WeBank, etc.

Publications


Research Grants


Professional Service

Editorial/Organizing Committee Member
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2024-2025.
  • Associate Editor, Springer Data Science and Engineering (DSEJ) 2024-2025.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJCS) 2024-2025.
  • Associate Editor, IPSJ Transactions on Data Processing (IPSJ-TOD) 2024.
  • Associate Editor, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Special Issue on Data Engineering and Information Management 2024.
  • Program co-chair, Australasian Database Conference (ADC) 2024.
  • Proceeding co-chair, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2024.
  • Session Chair, KDD 2023, VLDB 2023, ICDE 2021, DASFAA 2021, SFDI 2020.
  • Publicity chair, First International Workshop on Emerging Blockchain Technology Solutions for Real-world Applications (EBTSRA) in conjunction with IEEE VTC 2020.
  • Guest Editor. Special Issue on “Emerging Blockchain Technology Solutions for Real-world Applications,” Sensors.
  • Guest Editor. Special Issue on “Blockchain for Peer-to-Peer Computing,” Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA).

Program Committee Member
  • International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2023, 2024.
  • ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2024 (Senior Program Committee).
  • ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) 2022, 2024, 2025
  • ACM SIGKDDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) 2022, 2023.
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
  • The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021, 2022 (Senior Program Committee,), 2023.
  • The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025.
  • International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2024.
  • ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2022.
  • International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA), 2024.
  • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), 2023.
  • ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (ACM SoCC), 2023.
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData) 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024.
  • ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL) 2019, 2020, 2021. 2022.
  • International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.
  • International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
  • The Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) 2023, 2024, 2025 (Meta-Reviewer).
  • SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2024.
  • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024.
  • International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2023, 2025.
  • Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) 2022, 2023.
  • Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec) 2022.
  • International Workshop on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger (BCDL) in conjunction with VLDB 2019.
  • IEEE International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM) 2019, 2020, 2021.
  • International Workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability (SFDI) 2019, 2020, 2021.
  • International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH) in conjunction with VLDB 2020, 2021.
  • International Workshop on Data Science for Data Marketplaces (DSDM) In conjunction with the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases 2022.

Journal Reviewer
  • Very Large Data Base (VLDB) Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
  • Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), Springer
  • Information Sciences, Elsevier
  • Computer Networks, Elsevier
  • Computers & Security, Elsevier
  • Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier
  • IET Information Security
  • International Journal of Information Security (IJIS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • IEEE Access

Teaching

  • プログラム理論と言語, 2023 冬.
  • 情報学II, 2023 秋.
  • Theory and Practice of Algorithms, 2023 Spring.
  • 計算機プログラミングⅠ・演習, 2023 春.
  • 科学技術英語演習, 2023 春夏, 2023 秋冬
  • Practice of Information Systems, 2021/2022 Spring.
  • Distributed Information Systems, 2020/2021 Fall.
  • PBL/FBL Privacy-enhancing Techniques for Combating COVID-19, 2020 Spring
  • PBL/FBL Personal Data Market, 2018 Fall.