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Jun Yang

Bishop-MacDermott Family Professor
Computer Science
Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
D308 LSRC, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Grants


III: Medium: Responsive Optimization for Algorithmic Decision Systems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2024 - 2027

III: Medium: Ask the Experts: Generating Question-Answer Pairs for Addressing Information Deficits about Vaccines

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2026

IIS: Small: Helping Novices Learn and Debug Relational Queries

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2024

III: Small: Durability Queries in Databases

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2022

RAISE: C-Accel Pilot - Track A1: Credible Open Knowledge Network

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Texas at Arlington · 2019 - 2022

RAPID: Poirot: From Contact Tracing to Private Exposure Detection

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2020 - 2022

III: Small: Collaborative Research: Towards End-to-End Data-Driven, Computer-Assisted Fact-Checking

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2021

New Tech & Check

ResearchProject Co-Lead · Awarded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation · 2019 - 2021

III: Medlium: Collaborative Research: Database Research for Computational Journalism

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2019

III: Small: DBMS+: Management System for the Next-Generation Database

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2014 - 2018

III: Student Travel Fellowships for SIGMOD 2017

ConferenceCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2017

III: Small: Cumulon: Easy and Efficient Statistical Big-Data Analysis in the Cloud

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2013 - 2017

Multiscale Systems Immunology

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2010 - 2015

Towards Computational Fact-Checking and Lead-Finding

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Google Inc. · 2014 - 2015

III: Small: RIOT: Statistical Computing with Efficient, Transparent I/O

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2009 - 2014

Doctoral Program in Management and Analysis of Large Data Acquired from Sensors

Inst. Training Prgm or CMECo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Department of Education · 2007 - 2011

Multiscale Integrative Immunology for Adjuvant Development

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2005 - 2010

III-COR: Wide-Area Publish/Subscribe: Unifying Data Processing and Dissemination

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2007 - 2010

CAREER: Techniques and Applications of Derived Data Maintenance

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2003 - 2008

External Relationships


  • Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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