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

• Malware Detection
• Data Anonymization
• Trust and ID Management

• (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.