De-Nian Yang received the BS and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2004, respectively. From 1999 to 2004, he joined the Internet Research Lab with advisor Prof. Wanjiun Liao. Afterward, he joined the Network Database Lab with advisor Prof. Ming-Syan Chen as a postdoctoral fellow for the 4-year military services. He is now an assistant research fellow in the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica.

His research interests include multimedia and mobile networking, and social networks. His research addresses both the theoretical rigor and the practical feasibility. He received the best student paper award of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (IEEE ICME), Career Development Award in Academia Sinica, and Research Exploration Award in Pan Wen Yuan Foundation. He is a member of the IEEE and ACM.