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Haiyan Qiao

Haiyan Qiao

Professor

Contact

Professor
Computer Science and Engineering, School of
Office Phone(909) 537-5415
Office LocationJB-341

Bio

Dr. Qiao earned Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Arizona. Her Ph.D. research is about multi-agent reinforcement learning and game theory. Her current research focuses on machine learning and its applications.  

Education

Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona
M.S., Computer Science, North Dakota State University
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

Courses/Teaching

Dr. Qiao follows the teaching philosophy: "Give a man a fish and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for life" by encouraging creative thinking and focusing on problem solving process instead of merely presenting a solution.

She has taught a variety of CSE courses. Recently years she is mainly teaching

  • CSE 5160 Machine Learning
  • CSE 5410 Robotics and Control
  • CSE 3100 Digital Logic
  • CSE 6964 Masters Project
  • CSE 6974 Thesis

Research and Teaching Interests

Primary Professional Activities

  • Advisory Committee member of ICETE2027
  • Technical Program Chair of IEEE FMLDS 2026
  • General Chair of IEEE International Conference on Future Machine Learning and Data Science (FMLDS 2025), 02-05 November, in Los Angeles, USA
  • Co-PI, NSF Award #1644261, Title: Promoting Pre- and Post-Transfer Success in STEM at Hispanic Serving Institutions,  $4,999,625, 01/2017 – 12/2021

  • Co-PI, NSF Award number 1060632, Maturation of an S-STEM Scholarship program at a Hispanic Serving/Minority Serving Institution, $598,000, 07/2011 - 06/2015

  • CNS Outstanding Professor Award for Research and Scholarly Activities, 2012/2013, California State University San Bernardino

  • Open talk with CSE students on "robotic motion and vision", with media report "CSUSB students help animatronic robots stare the future in the face" on Jan. 2, 2013 in The Sun, Pasadena Star-News, San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Daily Breeze (Torrance), System Integrator, TMCnet.com, Green Technology World, Education Technology and Smart Grid.
  • NSF TRUST Fellowship of Women Institute of Summer Enrichment, June 06 - 13, 2008, Cornell University.
  • IEEE Senior Member  
  • Faculty advisor of CSUSB CSE Club/IEEE CSUSB Chapter  

Recent Publications

  • Fruzsina Ladanyi, Haiyan Qiao, Predicting Music Origin with Deep Learning. In 2025 IEEE FMLDS: Proceedings of 2025 IEEE International Conference on Future Machine Learning and Data Sciences. 02-05 November 2025, Los Angeles, USA.
  • Chakraborty, S., Tyagi, C., Qiao, H., and Guo, W. (2024) Distribution-free Conformal Prediction for Ordinal Classification. 2024 13th Symposium on Conformal and Probabilistic Prediction with Applications, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLE) 230:120-139.
  • Takenori Tsuruga, Haiyan Qiao, General Population Projection Models with Census Data. In 2024 IEEE FMLDS: Proceedings of 2024 IEEE International Conference on Future Machine Learning and Data Sciences.  20-23 November 2024. DOI:10.1109/FMLDS63805.2024.00052
  • Zhengzheng, Haiyan Qiao, Deep Learning Edge Detection in Image Inpainting. 2022 International Conference on High Performance Big Data and Intelligent Systems (HDIS), Dec. 10 2022 to Dec. 11 2022. Tianjin, China. ISBN: 978-1-6654-9144-0. Year: 2022, Pages: 66-70. 
    DOI:10.1109/HDIS56859.2022.9991571