Explanatory Data Analysis group

Dr. Lincen Yang

Dr. Lincen Yang
Dr. Lincen Yang
Postdoc

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Lincen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the EDA group. Before that, he obtained his PhD in Computer Science in the same group and his Master's in Statistics at the Leiden Mathematical Institute. Lincen's research focuses on interpretable probabilistic models, spanning the development of explainable models for probabilistic classification, conditional density estimation, causal learning, and anomaly detection. His work often reformulates existing, well-known problems, which typically eliminates the need for the ad hoc and heuristic components of current solutions. He is also interested in developing methods without hyperparameters for controlling regularization, which he achieves by designing the learning objective (model selection criterion) under the MDL framework. Lincen has also contributed to applied research in fields such as healthcare (clinical decision making and medical imaging), environmental science, and computer hardware.

Selected recent publications

In press
Yang, L & van Leeuwen, M Probabilistic Truly Unordered Rule Sets. Journal of Machine Learning Research, JMLR, In press.website
2026
Shi, J, Yang, L, Li, Z, van Leeuwen, T, Pelt, DM & Batenburg, KJ Efficient Flow Matching for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction. In: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2026), 2026.website
GamatiƩ, A, Yang, L & Pimenta, P Rules, Not Rankings: Interpretable AI for Processor Microarchitecture Design Analysis. IEEE Computer Architecture Letters vol.25(1), IEEE, 2026.
Yang, L, van der Meijden, S, Arbous, S & van Leeuwen, M Interpretable Machine Learning for Identifying ICU Readmission Risk in Subgroups with Probabilistic Rules. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association vol.33(3), pp 690-699, Oxford Journals , 2026.
Yang, L, Li, Z, van Leeuwen, M & Salehkaleybar, S Learning Subgroups with Maximum Treatment Effects without Causal Heuristics. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026), 2026.
Wang, Z, Yang, L, Ranyal, E, Briessinck, M, Eckelman, MJ, Cao, Z & Hernando, D Computational optimization for low-carbon and circular pavement management at the network level. Resources, Conservation & Recycling vol.225, Elsevier, 2026.
2025
Li, Z, Huang, Q, Zhu, Y, Yang, L, Mohammadi Amiri, M, van Stein, N & van Leeuwen, M Scalable, Explainable and Provably Robust Anomaly Detection with One-Step Flow Matching. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), 2025.