Dr. Yanfang (Fanny) Ye is currently the
Theodore L. and Dana J. Schroeder Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences (CDS) at
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Before joining CWRU, she was an assistant professor and then associate professor in the
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at
West Virginia University (WVU). She received her Ph.D. in computer science from the
Department of Computer Science,
Xiamen University in 2010. Before joining academia, she had over six years working experience in cybersecurity industry: she was the Principal Scientist in Comodo Security Solutions, Inc. (2010-2013) and formerly the Deputy Director R&D at Kingsoft Internet Security Corporation (2008-2010). She has had over seventy-five publications in her fields (e.g.,
ACM CSUR, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TSMC, KAIS, JCV, SIGKDD, ICDM, CIKM, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI, ACSAC). Her proposed techniques have significantly reduced the time needed to detect new malicious software - from weeks to seconds, which have been incorporated into popular commercial cybersecurity products including Comodo and Kingsoft Antivirus that protect millions of users worldwide. In recent years, she has expanded her research on health intelligence with the focus on combating opioid crisis and epidemic. She recently received the prestigious
NSF Career Award (2019) and
IJCAI Early Career Spotlight (2019). Her recent work on intelligent malware detection received the
SIGKDD 2017 Best Paper Award and
SIGKDD 2017 Best Student Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track); and her work on adversarial machine learning won the
AICS 2019 Challenge Problem Winner and the
IEEE EISIC 2017 Best Paper Award. She received the
New Researcher of the Year Award (2016-2017) from the Statler College at WVU. She has been
awarded multiple research grants from the NSF and DoJ/NIJ in funding on her research. All these awards are highly competitive. She is an Associate Editor in
IEEE Transaction on Big Data; she has also served as Area Chair/Senior Program Committee/Program Committee of top-tier international conferences in her fields such as
SIGKDD, ICDM, CIKM, PKDD, AAAI, IJCAI, S&P, ACSAC.
Research Areas
- Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Health Intelligence.
Work Experience
- T. and D. Schroeder Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (2019.10-Present)
- Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (2019.07-Present)
- Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University (2019.07-Present)
- Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University (2019.05-2019.06)
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University (2013.11-2019.05)
- Principal Scientist, Comodo Security Solutions, Inc. (2010-2013)
- Deputy Director R&D, Kingsoft Internet Security Corporation (2008-2010)
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Xiamen University (2007-2010)
Professional Services
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Big Data (IEEE TBD), 2018-Present.
- Editorial Board, Journal of Information Engineering and Applied Computing, 2018-2020.
- Workshop/Tutorial/Session/Publicity Chair: IJCAI (2019), ICDM (2018-2019), IEEE BigData (2018-2019), CIKM (2017), IEEE ICSC (2015-2016), ICMLA (2015), WISE (2015).
- AC/SPC/PC: S&P (2020-2021), AAAI (2019-2020), ACSAC (2019-2020), ACM SIGKDD (2017-2020), ICDM (2018-2020), PKDD (2020), IJCAI (2017, 2019-2020), CIKM (2019), ICMLA (2019), ICICS (2018), EISIC (2018), SNAST (2018-2016), WEBIST (2018, 2017), WISE (2018-2015), SIA (2017), ACCSE (2016), WoTBD (2016), MobiApps (2016), ICTAI (2016), DPNoC (2016).
- Journal/Conference Referee: (J): IEEE TKDE (2017-2020), IEEE TIFS (2017, 2019-2020), IEEE TDSC (2016-2017, 2019-2020), ACM TKDD (2020), COSE (2019), DMKD (2018), ACM CSUR (2016-2018), JACI (2018), JAIHC (2018), COMP (2018), ESWA (2016-2018), MDPI (2018), JFGCS (2018), JDSA (2018), JECE (2018), SCN (2016-2018), JISA (2018), IEEE Access (2018), IEEE TBD (2017), JNCA (2015- 2017), JSS (2017), IEEE TC (2016), IEEE TNNLS (2016), IJAIT (2015-2016), WWW (2016), IEEE TSC (2015), INCA (2015), IEEE IS (2014), JIS (2014), JBD (2014); (C): S&P (2020-2021), ACSAC (2019), AAAI (2019-2020), ACM SIGKDD (2017-2020), PKDD (2020), IJCAI (2017, 2019), CIKM (2019), IEEE ICDM (2018-2019), SciSec (2019), ICMLA (2019), ICICS (2018), EISIC (2018), SNAST (2016-2018), WEBIST (2018), WISE (2015-2018), IJCAI (2017), ACCSE (2016), FNC (2015), DPNoC (2015), IEEE ICAINA (2014), IEEE ISWVC (2014).
- Panels: NSF Panels (2018-2020), Cyber Florida Panel (2019-2020), Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2018-2020).
Invited Talks
- Invited Talk @ CWRU, Feb 2020.
- Early Career Spotlight Talk @ IJCAI, Aug 2019.
- Invited Talk @ SDU, Nov 2019.
- Invited Talk @ USTC, Nov 2019.
- Invited Talk @ CCFAI, Aug 2019.
- Invited Talk @ BUPT, Aug 2018.
- Invited Talk @ Tencent, Aug 2018.
- Invited Talk @ WHU, Jul 2018.
- Invited Talk @ FNU, Nov 2017.
- Invited Talk @ Alibaba Group, Oct 2017.
- Invited Talk @ UNCC, Oct 2016.
- Invited Talk @ the 1st Big Data/Cybersecurity Workshop at WVU, Dec 2015.
- Tutorial @ IEEE International Conference on Sematic Computing (IEEE-ICSC), Feb 2015.
- Invited Talk @ Virginia Tech, Nov 2014.
- Poster @ WVU Fourth Annual Security and Intelligence Research Showcase, Nov 2014.
- Invited Talk @ WVU, Feb 2014.
Selected Awards
- NSF IIS RAPID Award (PI), 2020.
- NSF Career Award (PI), 2019.
- IJCAI Early Career Spotlight, 2019.
- NSF IIS Award (PI), 2019.
- DoJ/NIJ Award (PI), 2019.
- AICS 2019 Challenge Problem Winner, 2019.
- APLU Member Spotlights, 2019.
- IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, 2018.
- NSF CICI Award (PI), 2018.
- NSF SaTC Award (PI), 2018.
- WV HEPC Grant Award (Co-PI), 2018.
- WVU Senate Grants for Research and Scholarship Award (PI), 2018.
- SIGKDD 2017 Best Paper Award and SIGKDD 2017 Best Student Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track), 2017.
- SIGKDD 2017 Audience Appreication Award Finalist, 2017.
- IEEE EISIC 2017 Best Paper Award, 2017.
- WVU Statler New Researcher of the Year, 2017.
- NSF TWC Award (PI), 2016.
- WVU Senate Grants for Research and Scholarship Award (PI), 2016.
- WVU NT-NS Pilot Grant Award (Co-PI), 2016.
- ACM SIGKDD Google Female Conference and Travel Award winners, 2010. (only 2 winners worldwide)
- XMU First-class Scholarship Award, 2010.
- IBM Heroic Woman Award, 2009. (only 8 winners nationwide)