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most citedForecasting People's Needs in Hurricane Events from Social Network

34 citations · 57 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2025

Discovering Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 in China

Zhou Yang, Edward Dougherty, Chen Zhang +2

A comprehensive retrospective analysis of public health interventions, such as large scale testing, quarantining, and contact tracing, can help identify mechanisms most effective i…

cs.CL2025

MASE: Interpretable NLP Models via Model-Agnostic Saliency Estimation

Zhou Yang, Shunyan Luo, Jiazhen Zhu +1

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant strides in Natural Language Processing (NLP), yet their interpretability remains elusive, particularly when evaluating their intri…

cs.CY2020

COVID19 Tracking: An Interactive Tracking, Visualizing and Analyzing Platform

Zhou Yang, Jiwei Xu, Zhenhe Pan +1

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has now become a pandemic, inflicting millions of people and causing tens of thousands of deaths. To better understand the dynamics of COVID…

cs.HC2019

Addict Free -- A Smart and Connected Relapse Intervention Mobile App

Zhou Yang, Vinay Jayachandra Reddy, Rashmi Kesidi +1

It is widely acknowledged that addiction relapse is highly associated with spatial-temporal factors such as some specific places or time periods. Current studies suggest that those…

cs.SI2019★ 1 cited

Discovering Opioid Use Patterns from Social Media for Relapse Prevention

Zhou Yang, Spencer Bradshaw, Rattikorn Hewett +1

The United States is currently experiencing an unprecedented opioid crisis, and opioid overdose has become a leading cause of injury and death. Effective opioid addiction recovery…

cs.OS2019★ 1 cited

Data Centers Job Scheduling with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Sisheng Liang, Zhou Yang, Fang Jin +1

Efficient job scheduling on data centers under heterogeneous complexity is crucial but challenging since it involves the allocation of multi-dimensional resources over time and spa…

cs.LG2018★ 3 cited

Spatial-temporal Multi-Task Learning for Within-field Cotton Yield Prediction

Long Nguyen, Jia Zhen, Zhe Lin +4

Understanding and accurately predicting within-field spatial variability of crop yield play a key role in site-specific management of crop inputs such as irrigation water and ferti…

cs.SI2018★ 4 cited

Predicting Opioid Relapse Using Social Media Data

Zhou Yang, Long Nguyen, Fang Jin

Opioid addiction is a severe public health threat in the U.S, causing massive deaths and many social problems. Accurate relapse prediction is of practical importance for recovering…

cs.LG2018★ 14 cited

Coordinating Disaster Emergency Response with Heuristic Reinforcement Learning

Long Nguyen, Zhou Yang, Jiazhen Zhu +2

A crucial and time-sensitive task when any disaster occurs is to rescue victims and distribute resources to the right groups and locations. This task is challenging in populated ur…

cs.CL2018★ 34 cited

Forecasting People's Needs in Hurricane Events from Social Network

Long Nguyen, Zhou Yang, Jia Li +2

Social networks can serve as a valuable communication channel for calls for help, offering assistance, and coordinating rescue activities in disaster. Social networks such as Twitt…