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Faculty

Yanchao Zhang

Yanchao Zhang

Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Networked system security and privacy, AI and machine learning, wireless networking, and mobile computing.

Current PhD Students

 

  • Sisi Chen
  • Mingze Pan
  • Yizhou Wang
  • Zhou Yu
  • Ruobing Li
  • Abdualrhman Almeajel
  • Yan (Ian) Zhang
  • Jiawei Li

Alumni

 

  • Ang Li
    • PhD, 7/2023
    • Dissertation: “Securing Heterogeneous IoT Systems”
    • Current employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  • Yan (Mia) Zhang
    • PhD, 7/2022
    • Dissertation: “Trustworthy IoT Sensing-as-a-Service”
    • Current employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Akron
  • Dianqi Han
    • PhD, 7/2022
    • Dissertation: “IoT Security in the Era of Artificial Intelligence”
    • Current employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Science Technology, University of Texas at Arlington
  • Tao Li
    • PhD, 7/2020
    • Dissertation: “Security and Privacy in Mobile and Crowdsourcing Systems: Novel Attacks and Countermeasures”
    • Current employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University
  • Yimin Chen
    • PhD, 11/2018
    • Dissertation: “Security and Privacy in Mobile Devices: Novel Attacks and Countermeasures”
    • Current employment: tenure-track Assistant Professor, Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Xin Yao
    • Visiting PhD student from Hunan University, China, 11/2015–11/2017
    • PhD in Hunan University, 4/2018
    • Current employment: Associate Professor, School of Software, Central South University, China
  • Xiaocong Jin
    • PhD, 5/2017
    • Dissertation: “Secure and Privacy in Dynamic Spectrum Access: Challenges and Solutions”
    • Current employment: Google
  • Jingchao Sun
    • PhD, 3/2017
    • Dissertation: “Secure and Privacy in Mobile Computing: Challenges and Solutions”
    • Current employment: Verizona/Yahoo! Advertising
  • Jinxue Zhang
    • PhD, 6/2016
    • Dissertation: “Secure and Privacy-Preserving Microblogging Services: Attacks and Defenses”
    • Employment: Uber–>Facebook
  • Rui Zhang
    • PhD, 8/2013
    • Dissertation: “Secure and Secure and Privacy in Heterogeneous Wireless and Mobile Networks: Challenges and Solutions”
    • Current employment: Associate Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware.
    • NSF CAREER Awardee in 2017
  • Jing Shi
    • PhD, 8/2010
    • Dissertation: “Secure Data Access in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensing Systems”
    • Current employment: Associate Professor, College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Visiting Scholars

 

  • Lian Xue, Associate Professor, Hebei University of Engineering, 6/2017–12/ 2017.
  • Junwei Zhang, Associate Professor, Xidian University, 9/2016–8/2016.
  • Mande Xie, Associate Professor, Zhejiang Gongshang University, 1/2013–7/2013.
  • Xiaogang Qi, Professor, Xidian University, 9/2012–8/2013.