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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

  • (July, 2010) Our journal paper on "Applications and Security of Next-Generation User-Centric Wireless Systems" to appear in a special issue of Future Internet edited by Ralf Steinmetz and Andre Koenig.

  • (June, 2010) Our poster titled "Detecting the Onset of Infection for Secure Hosts" will be presented at the 13th International Symposium On Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) 2010. Congratulations to Kui!

  • (April, 2010) Our paper titled "Knowing Where Your Input is From: Kernel-Level Provenance Verification" is accepted by Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) 2010.

  • (April, 2010) Danfeng to give talks at VT ECE Department, Georgia Tech, and UNC Chapel Hill.

  • (March, 2010) Danfeng invited Prof. Xinming (Simon) Ou to visit Virginia Tech CS.

  • (February, 2010) Two journal papers to appear: one on role-based cascaded delegation in IEEE SMC and one on identity management in Identity in the Information Society.

  • (January, 2010) Dr. Yao received the NSF CAREER Award 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!


 

 

 

   
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