Wenfang (Dorothy) Yao

Wenfang Yao is currently a Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Nursing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under supervision of Prof. Jing (Harry) Qin. Prior to that, she obtained the Ph.D. degree from the department of Applied Mathematics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the supervision of Prof. Xiaoqi Yang, and the Bachelor’s degree from the School of Mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University.

She studied related Lipschitz-like property with projectional coderivatives in variational analysis for her Ph.D. research. Her research focus has recently transitioned to healthcare analytics. She is particularly interested in multi-modal fusion (e.g., fusing electronic healthcare records and chest X-ray images) for clinical predictions.

Selected Publications

AAAI

DrFuse: Learning Disentangled Representation for Clinical Multi-Modal Fusion with Missing Modality and Modal Inconsistency

Wenfang Yao*, Kejing Yin* , William K. Cheung , Jia Liu , and Jing Qin

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mar 2024

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@article{yao2024drfuse,
  title = {DrFuse: Learning Disentangled Representation for Clinical Multi-Modal Fusion with Missing Modality and Modal Inconsistency},
  volume = {38},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29578},
  doi = {10.1609/aaai.v38i15.29578},
  number = {15},
  journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  author = {Yao*, Wenfang and Yin*, Kejing and Cheung, William K. and Liu, Jia and Qin, Jing},
  year = {2024},
  month = mar,
  pages = {16416-16424},
}

SIAMOpt

Relative Lipschitz-like property of parametric systems via projectional coderivatives

Wenfang Yao, and Xiaoqi Yang

SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mar 2023

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@article{yao2023relative,
  title = {Relative Lipschitz-like property of parametric systems via projectional coderivatives},
  author = {Yao, Wenfang and Yang, Xiaoqi},
  journal = {SIAM Journal on Optimization},
  volume = {33},
  number = {3},
  pages = {2021--2040},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {SIAM},
}

JOTA

Lipschitz-Like Property for Linear Constraint Systems

Wenfang Yao, and Xiaoqi Yang

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Mar 2023

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@article{yao2023lipschitz,
  title = {Lipschitz-Like Property for Linear Constraint Systems},
  author = {Yao, Wenfang and Yang, Xiaoqi},
  journal = {Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications},
  volume = {199},
  number = {3},
  pages = {1281--1296},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Springer US New York},
}

SVVA

Projectional coderivatives and calculus rules

Wenfang Yao, Kaiwen Meng , Minghua Li , and Xiaoqi Yang

Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, Mar 2023

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@article{yao2023projectional,
  title = {Projectional coderivatives and calculus rules},
  author = {Yao, Wenfang and Meng, Kaiwen and Li, Minghua and Yang, Xiaoqi},
  journal = {Set-Valued and Variational Analysis},
  volume = {31},
  number = {4},
  pages = {36},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

Lipschitz-like property relative to a set and the generalized Mordukhovich criterion

Kaiwen Meng , Minghua Li , Wenfang Yao, and Xiaoqi Yang

Mathematical Programming, Mar 2021

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@article{meng2021lipschitz,
  title = {Lipschitz-like property relative to a set and the generalized Mordukhovich criterion},
  author = {Meng, Kaiwen and Li, Minghua and Yao, Wenfang and Yang, Xiaoqi},
  journal = {Mathematical Programming},
  volume = {189},
  pages = {455--489},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Springer},
}