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Assistant Professor Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
 

Research

 


Yao Group on Cyber Security

Our research is focused on cyber security, in particular network and information security, human-behaviors in computer security, user-centric and user-friendly systems, insider threats, secure information sharing, data privacy, and applied cryptography.

Research Directions

News and Announcements

  • (January, 2010) Dr. Yao received the NSF CAREER Award in the amount of $530K supporting her work on human-behavior driven malware detection.

  • (November, 09) Our work on activity-based continuous authentication is on NSF News.

  • (November, 09) Our paper on anonymizing Netflix Prize data is accepted by ASIACCS '10. Congratulations to Chih-Cheng and Brian, and my collaborator Prof. Wendy Wang!

  • (October, 09) Our paper on detecting outbound malware traffic is accepted by ICICS '09. Congratulations to Huijun and other co-authors!

  • (September, 09) Dr. Yao announced her move to Virginia Tech Computer Science from Rutgers University Computer Science.

 

 

 

   
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