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Yang has distinguished herself by pioneering an approach that couples machine learning with social psychology and sociology to model human communication in social context using\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgatech.us3.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D5509a5293bfa99c4fe533c5e9%26id%3D05e4a9da87%26e%3D9f783a2095\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cwalter.rich%40research.gatech.edu%7C545f4da827d2474502b408d8e24c0748%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637508163468793823%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=%2FGaJ%2BRk2OOh0UkV2xwoyV7UBh7UMcY3Vojd37ABMsoY%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003Enatural language processing\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026ldquo;I am deeply honored to receive this and would like to thank IEEE for the recognition. This would not have been possible without the support and efforts from so many students, mentors, and collaborators,\u0026rdquo; said Yang.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nYang joined Georgia Tech in August 2019 after earning her doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University that same year. Yang\u0026rsquo;s lab,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgatech.us3.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D5509a5293bfa99c4fe533c5e9%26id%3D116e68b8f7%26e%3D9f783a2095\u0026amp;data=04%7C01%7Cwalter.rich%40research.gatech.edu%7C545f4da827d2474502b408d8e24c0748%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637508163468793823%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000\u0026amp;sdata=nNUI1Tvh07UBIKvNEPl6Zf8OpNCzEBqSOCgdXeL%2Biiw%3D\u0026amp;reserved=0\u0022\u003ESocial Language and Technologies (SALT)\u003C\/a\u003E, researches both content and social aspects of human language and develops interventions to facilitate human-human and human-machine communication.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThose making the 2020 list were chosen based on a worldwide call asking for nominations of people who have received a Ph.D. since 2014. 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