My research areas have been in Crisis Informatics and Learning Analytics. These areas involve information archiving, analysis, visualization, information system development, and application of data mining, and natural language processing techniques. In addition, I’m interested in the field of digital and data curation - See more at: http://www.lsu.edu/chse/slis/about_us/bios/yang.php#sthash.lOpOW0Je.dpuf