Allen Y. Yang is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of EECS at UC Berkeley. 
His primary research is on pattern analysis of geometric and statistical models in very 
high-dimensional data spaces, and applications in motion segmentation, image 
segmentation, face recognition, and signal processing in heterogeneous sensor networks. 
He has published five journal papers and more than 10 conference papers. He is the co-
inventor of two US patent applications. 

He received his BEng in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology 
of China (USTC) in 2001. He received an MS in Electrical Engineering in 2003, an MS in 
Mathematics in 2005, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2006, all from 
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Among the awards he received are 
a Best Bachelor's Thesis Award from USTC and a Henry Ford II Scholar Award from UIUC.