Deputy Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence | Jiangxi Normal University | China
Prof. Dr. Cheng Yan is a Professor and doctoral supervisor specializing in intelligent information processing, deep learning and affective computing, artificial intelligence and big data, and intelligent education. She earned her PhD from Tongji University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the university’s Computer Science and Technology Mobile Station. She has also undertaken academic visiting research at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), in the United States. Since 2012, she has held the rank of professor. Dr. Cheng currently serves as Vice Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence at Jiangxi Normal University, overseeing research and graduate education. She is also Director of the Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Affective Computing, as well as a recognized provincial academic and technical leader. She has been selected for the national “Western Light” Talent Program. She holds multiple professional roles, including committee member and Deputy Secretary-General of the Intelligent Education Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, and Chair of the Intelligent Education Committee of the Jiangxi Digital Economy Society. She is an expert reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Social Science Fund projects, degree thesis evaluations of the Ministry of Education, and several provincial scientific and technological programs. She serves as reviewer and editorial board member for multiple leading domestic and international journals. Dr. Cheng has led four national-level research projects and over twenty major or key provincial projects, and has participated in national key research initiatives such as the “Tenth Five-Year” major project on network education. She has published over 70 SSCI, SCI, EI, and CSSCI-indexed papers, authored two monographs, and supervised students who have received national and provincial scholarships and academic honors. Her work has earned numerous awards, including Best Research Award, Young Scientist Award, provincial first prizes in teaching and scientific research, and multiple patents and software copyrights. Her research continues to contribute significantly to the advancement of intelligent education and artificial intelligence applications.
Publications
An expensive multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on grid and relation learning. Applied Soft Computing.
Study on interpretable shallow class activation mapping algorithm based on spatial weights and inter-layer correlation. Computer Science China.
Semantic injection and multi-scale cross-axis attention-based portrait segmentation model. Signal, Image and Video Processing.