Dr. Yanfang (Fanny) Ye is currently the
Galassi Family Collegiate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering (
Full Professor) in the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and
the
Associate Director of Applied Analytics in the
Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society at the
University of Notre Dame. Before joining Notre Dame, she was the Theodore L. and Dana J. Schroeder Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU); prviously, 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 at
Xiamen University in 2010. Before joining academia, she had six-year 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). Dr. Ye's research areas mainly include artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data mining, cybersecurity, and public health, with focus on i) advancing knowledge and science in graph learning, trustworthy LLMs, and multimodal learning, ii) bridging AI/ML and cybersecurity concentrating on AI security, large-scale malware detection, and the study of the evolving underground ecosystem, and iii) developing AI and data-driven techniques to combat the opioid crisis and infectious disease outbreaks. Dr. Ye has had over 160 publications in her fields (e.g.,
ACM CSUR, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TKDE, SIGKDD, ICDM, CIKM, WWW, NeurIPS, NAACL, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, USENIX Security, NDSS, ACSAC). By working with her team, Dr. Ye has received nine best paper awards, including the
AAAI-DCAA 2023 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, the
ACM CIKM 2021 Best Paper Award (Full Paper Track), the
ACM CIKM 2021 Best Paper Runner-Up Award (Applied Paper Track), the
AICS 2019 Challenge Problem Winner, the
SIGKDD 2017 Best Paper Award and
SIGKDD 2017 Best Student Paper Award (Applied Data Science Track), and the
IEEE EISIC 2017 Best Paper Award. She has also received the
Innovation Award (2020-2021) and the
Research Award (2019-2020) at CWRU, the
MetroLab Innovation of the Month (2020), the
NSF Career Award (2019), the
IJCAI Early Career Spotlight (2019), and the
New Researcher of the Year Award (2016-2017) at WVU. As the Lead/Sole PI, she has received
multiple awards from the NSF and DoJ/NIJ in support of her research. All these awards are highly competitive. Dr. Ye is an Associate Editor in
IEEE Transaction on Big Data (TBD),
IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), and
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS); she has also served as an Area Chair/SPC/PC of top-tier international conferences in her fields such as
SIGKDD, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICDM, CIKM, SDM, PKDD, S&P, USENIX Security, ACSAC. She has also received the
ICDM 2018 Outstanding Service Award.
Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Data Mining, Cybersecurity, and Public Health.
Work Experience
- Galassi Family Collegiate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering (Full Professor, Tenured), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame (2024.05-Present)
- Associate Director of Applied Analytics, Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society, University of Notre Dame (2021.11-Present)
- Collegiate Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (Tenured), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame (2021.11-2024.05)
- T. and D. Schroeder Associate Professor (Tenured), Dept. of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (2019.10-2021.10)
- Associate Professor (Tenured), Dept. of Computer and Data Sciences, Case Western Reserve University (2019.07-2021.10)
- Associate Professor (Tenured), 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, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2024-Present.
- Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2021-Present.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Big Data (IEEE TBD), 2018-2024.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2020-2024.
- Conference Chair: Financial Chair (SIGKDD 2021-2025), PhD Symposium Co-Chair (CIKM 2024), General Co-Chair (Midwest Security & Privacy Meeting, 2024), Publicity Co-Chair (ICDM 2018-2019, WISE 2015), Workshop Co-Chair (IEEE Big Data 2019), Session Chair (SIGKDD 2020-2023, CIKM 2023, Women in KDD 2022 Workshop, USENIX Security 2022, IJCAI 2021, S&P 2021, IJCAI 2019, CIKM 2019, IEEE Big Data 2018, CIKM 2017, IEEE ICSC 2015, WISE 2015), Tutorial Chair (IEEE ICSC 2015-2016), Workshop and Special Session Chair (ICMLA 2015).
- AC/SPC/PC: ACM SIGKDD (2017-2025), AAAI (2019-2024), IJCAI (2017, 2019-2024), ICDM (2018-2023), CIKM (2019, 2022-2023), SDM (2022-2024), PAKDD (2024), USENIX Security (2022-2023), S&P (2020-2022), ACSAC (2019-2022), AsiaCCS (2021), NeurIPS (2020-2021), ECML-PKDD (2020), 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 (2017-2021, 2023), IEEE TIFS (2017, 2019-2020, 2023), IEEE TDSC (2016-2017, 2019-2020), ACM TKDD (2020), IEEE TNNLS (2016, 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), IJAIT (2015-2016), WWW (2016), IEEE TSC (2015), INCA (2015), IEEE IS (2014), JIS (2014), JBD (2014); (C): ACM SIGKDD (2017-2024), AAAI (2019-2024), IJCAI (2017, 2019-2024), USENIX Security (2022-2023), IEEE ICDM (2018-2023), S&P (2020-2022), ACSAC (2019-2022), CIKM (2019, 2022-2023), SDM (2022), AsiaCCS (2021), SciSec (2019), ICMLA (2019), ICICS (2018), EISIC (2018), SNAST (2016-2019), WEBIST (2017-2018), WISE (2015-2018), SIA (2017), ACCSE (2016), MobiApps (2016), ICTAI (2016), DPNoC (2016), FNC (2015), DPNoC (2015), IEEE ICAINA (2014), IEEE ISWVC (2014).
- Panels: NSF Panels (2018-2025), DHS (2023), Cyber Florida Panel (2019-2020), Heidelberg Laureate Forum (2018-2020), DoD (2019).
Invited Talks
- Hesburgh Women of Impact, May 2025.
- BIPH Advisory Board Meeting at Notre Dame, October 2024.
- GMR EMS Unplugged Lecture Series, Jan 2024.
- NIH/NIDA IRP, Sep 2023.
- DoJ/NIJ National Research Conference, May 2023.
- CWRU Think Showcase, Feb 2021.
- IJCAI 2020 Tutorial, 2021.
- SIGKDD 2020 Tutorial, 2020.
- Invited Talk in Cleveland Big Data Meetup @ UDPi, Sep 2020.
- Invited Talk for COVID-19 Relief @ UEDA, July 2020.
- 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 S&CC Award (Lead PI), 2024.
- AAAI-DCAA 2023 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, 2023.
- NSF III Award (Sole PI), 2023.
- NSF IIS Award (Lead PI), 2023.
- SIGKDD 2022 Best Paper Award Shortlist (Research Track), 2022.
- NSF D-ISN Award (Lead PI), 2022.
- CIKM 2021 Best Paper Award (Full Paper Track), 2021.
- CIKM 2021 Best Paper Runner-Up Award (Applied Paper Track), 2021.
- WWW 2021 Best Paper Award Shortlist, 2021.
- NSF IIS Award (Lead PI), 2021.
- NSF III Award (Lead PI), 2021.
- Innovation Award at CWRU, 2021.
- Research Award at CWRU, 2020.
- MetroLab Innovation of the Month, May 2020.
- NSF IIS RAPID Award (Lead PI), 2020.
- NSF SaTC RAPID Award (Sole PI), 2020.
- NSF III Award (Sole PI), 2020.
- NSF ECCS Award (Co-PI), 2020.
- IJCAI Early Career Spotlight, 2019.
- AICS 2019 Challenge Problem Winner, 2019.
- APLU Member Spotlights, 2019.
- NSF SaTC Career Award (Sole PI), 2019.
- NSF IIS Award (Lead PI), 2019.
- DoJ/NIJ Award (Lead PI), 2019.
- IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, 2018.
- NSF CICI Award (Lead PI), 2018.
- NSF SaTC Award (Site PI), 2018.
- WV HEPC Grant Award (Co-PI), 2018.
- WVU Senate Grants for Research and Scholarship Award (Sole 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 (Lead PI), 2016.
- WVU Senate Grants for Research and Scholarship Award (Sole 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)