Current research interests include information integration, image processing, computer vision, and machine learning.

I came to Los Angeles at 2003, and finished my Master of Science degree from Computer Science Dept. at University of Southern California. After graduation, I worked for Information Sciences Institute with Professor Knoblock in the Information Integration Research Group. Latter I left to Geosemble Technologies to work as a research scientist.

Journal Articles

• Yao-Yi Chiang, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, and Ching-Chien Chen, Accurate and Automatic Extraction of Road Intersections From Raster Maps, Geoinformatica 13, 2 (2009), 121-157. online first pdf 
  

Conferences/Workshop Articles

• Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock, Classification of Raster Maps for Automatic Feature Extraction, In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'09), November 2009.pdf 
  
• Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock, A Method for Automatically Extracting Road Layers from Raster Maps, In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'09), July 2009.pdf 
  
• Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock, An Approach to Automatic Road Vectorization of Raster Maps, In Proceedings of the 8th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics RECognition (GREC'09), July 2009.pdf 
  
• Yao-Yi Chiang and Craig A. Knoblock, Automatic Extraction of Road Intersection Position, Connectivity, and Orientations from Raster Maps, In Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'08), November 2008.pdf 
  
• Yao-Yi Chiang, and Craig A. Knoblock, Classification of Line and Character Pixels on Raster Maps Using Discrete Cosine Transformation Coefficients and Support Vector Machines , In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), August 2006.pdf 
  
• Cyrus Shahabi, Yao-Yi Chiang, Kelvin Chung, Kai-Chen Huang, Jeff Khoshgozaran-Haghighi, Craig A. Knoblock, Sung Chun Lee, Ulrich Neumann, Ram Nevatia, Arjun Rihan, Snehal Thakkar, and Suya You, GEODEC: Eenableing Geospatial Decision Making, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME'06), July 2006.pdf 
  
• Sneha Desai, Craig A. Knoblock, Yao-Yi Chiang, Kandarp Desai, and Ching-Chien Chen, Automatically Identifying and Georeferencing Street Maps on the Web, In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR'05, CIKM Workshop), November 2005.pdf 
  
• Yao-Yi Chiang, Craig A. Knoblock, and Ching-Chien Chen, Automatic Extraction of Road Intersections From Raster Maps, in Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'05), November 2005.pdf 
  
• Ching-Chien Chen, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, and Yao-Yi Chiang, Snehal Thakkar, Automatically and Accurately Conflating Orthoimagery and Street Maps, in Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM-GIS'04), November 2004.pdf 

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• The 2nd Best Paper award of the 4th Annual Intelligent Systems Division Graduate Student Symposium (2009)

• The 2nd Best Paper award of the 3th Annual Intelligent Systems Division Graduate Student Symposium (2008)

• The Viterbi School Doctoral Fellowship (2007 to 2011)

• Ching-Chien Chen, Craig A. Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, Yao-Yi Chiang, Automatically and Accurately Conflating Road Vector Data, Street Maps, and Orthoimagery United States Patent 20070014488

• Teaching Assistant for CSCI 548 (2009 Spring): Information Integration on the Web
  Professor: Craig Knoblock
  Course Syllabus

Some of the companies I used to work for are:

• Fetch Technologies
• Geosemble Technologies
• TLJ Intertech Inc.

• Dr. Mark James Carman
  
• Snehal Thakkar
  
• Martin Michalowski
  
• Matthew Michelson
  
• Rattapoom Tuchinda
  
• Daniel W. Goldberg
  
• Aman Goel
  
• Anon Plangprasopchok
  
• Leigh's agency
  
• Hang Lee
  
• My sister's shop
  
• My sister's ART shop
  

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