Kai Yang

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
168 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Kai Yang is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Yang has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 43 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kai Yang's work include Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (16 papers), Wireless Communication Networks Research (15 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (15 papers). Kai Yang is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (16 papers), Wireless Communication Networks Research (15 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (15 papers). Kai Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Singapore. Kai Yang's co-authors include Xiaodong Wang, Michail Matthaiou, George K. Karagiannidis, Shahid Mumtaz, Emil Björnson, Yongming Huang, Amitabha Ghosh, I Chih‐Lin, Yonghui Li and Ming Xiao and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Kai Yang

149 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Millimeter Wave Communications for Future Mobile Networks

2017 815 citations Kai Yang et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
The role of lipid metabolic reprogramming in tumor microenvironment

2023 125 citations Kai Yang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Yang China	24	1.4k	650	538	314	225	168	2.8k
Bin Li China	29	2.0k 1.4×	1.6k 2.4×	574 1.1×	435 1.4×	209 0.9×	326	3.5k
Sunwoo Kim South Korea	26	1.7k 1.2×	498 0.8×	915 1.7×	303 1.0×	162 0.7×	198	2.5k
Lijun Qian United States	34	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 2.6×	328 0.6×	770 2.5×	314 1.4×	219	3.4k
Jian Chen China	33	3.1k 2.1×	1.5k 2.4×	835 1.6×	330 1.1×	273 1.2×	248	4.2k
Zhen Yang China	28	1.9k 1.3×	810 1.2×	461 0.9×	523 1.7×	366 1.6×	235	2.8k
Zaher Dawy Lebanon	29	2.2k 1.5×	2.1k 3.3×	214 0.4×	324 1.0×	192 0.9×	212	3.5k
Jun Wu China	26	1.4k 1.0×	958 1.5×	355 0.7×	665 2.1×	793 3.5×	218	3.1k
Zhifeng Zhao China	29	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 3.1×	261 0.5×	851 2.7×	224 1.0×	191	3.9k
Yanheng Liu China	28	899 0.6×	758 1.2×	802 1.5×	527 1.7×	252 1.1×	194	2.4k
Rongpeng Li China	29	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 3.0×	201 0.4×	876 2.8×	193 0.9×	128	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Yang

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kai Yang. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Kai Yang. The network helps show where Kai Yang may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Yang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kai Yang. Kai Yang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tian, Baoming, Renjian Liu, Qi Li, et al.. (2025). Dual-immunomodulatory effects on RAW264.7 macrophages and structural elucidation of a polysaccharide isolated from fermentation broth of Paecilomyces hepiali. Journal of Future Foods. 5(6). 628–640. 5 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaodong, et al.. (2025). PR-Attack: Coordinated Prompt-RAG Attacks on Retrieval-Augmented Generation in Large Language Models via Bilevel Optimization. 656–667.

Luo, Yizhen, Kai Yang, Kui Huang, et al.. (2024). Toward Unified AI Drug Discovery with Multimodal Knowledge. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 113–113. 8 indexed citations

Yang, Kai, et al.. (2024). Towards Safe Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles at Unsignalized Intersections. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 74(3). 3830–3842. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Zehui, et al.. (2024). High Performance Receiving and Processing Technology in Satellite Beam Hopping Communication. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics. 35(4). 815–828.

Yang, Kai, et al.. (2024). Anomaly Detection in Event-Triggered Traffic Time Series via Similarity Learning. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 22(2). 888–902. 2 indexed citations

Yang, Kai, et al.. (2023). Local structure-aware graph contrastive representation learning. Neural Networks. 172. 106083–106083. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Kai, et al.. (2023). Advanced Analytics and Predictive Maintenance in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. IARJSET. 10(11). 1 indexed citations

Yu, Liang, et al.. (2023). Repositioning linifanib as a potent anti-necroptosis agent for sepsis. Cell Death Discovery. 9(1). 57–57. 20 indexed citations

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Ma, Hui & Kai Yang. (2023). MetaSTNet: Multimodal Meta-Learning for Cellular Traffic Conformal Prediction. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 11(2). 1999–2011. 5 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai, et al.. (2023). Log Anomaly Detection by Adversarial Autoencoders With Graph Feature Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 73(1). 637–649. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Yifan, Feng Xu, Xiaoqiang Li, et al.. (2023). Online Prediction of Mechanical Properties of the Hot Rolled Steel Plate Using Time-series Deep Neural Network. ISIJ International. 63(4). 746–757. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai, et al.. (2022). Robust Group Anomaly Detection for Quasi-Periodic Network Time Series. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 9(4). 2833–2845. 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai, Cong Tian, Nan Zhang, Zhenhua Duan, & Hongwei Du. (2021). A CEGAR-Based Static–Dynamic Approach to Verifying Full Regular Properties of C Programs. IEEE Transactions on Reliability. 70(4). 1455–1467.

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Chen, Tianyi, et al.. (2021). Edge-Centric Bandit Learning for Task-Offloading Allocations in Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 70(4). 3702–3714. 22 indexed citations

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Wang, Ji, Jun Sun, Xiaodong Wang, Kai Yang, & Yingzhuang Liu. (2020). Extending the Welch Bound: Non-Orthogonal Pilot Sequence Design for Two-Cell Interference Networks. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 20(2). 1425–1439. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Junfeng, et al.. (2020). Gridless Underdetermined DOA Estimation of Wideband LFM Signals With Unknown Amplitude Distortion Based on Fractional Fourier Transform. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 7(12). 11612–11625. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Kai, Jie Ren, Chao Tian, Ji Wang, & H. Vincent Poor. (2020). Decoding Binary Linear Codes Over Channels With Synchronization Errors. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 38(12). 2853–2863. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yanqiao & Kai Yang. (2019). Tripartite Active Learning for Interactive Anomaly Discovery. IEEE Access. 7. 63195–63203. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Ji, Longfei Zhou, Kai Yang, Xiaodong Wang, & Yingzhuang Liu. (2019). Multicast Precoding for Multigateway Multibeam Satellite Systems With Feeder Link Interference. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 18(3). 1637–1650. 38 indexed citations

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