To Perspective Students and Postdocs
- Yes-Lab, led by Prof. Yanfang (Fanny) Ye at the University of Notre Dame, is a team consisting of faculty, post-docs and students with research focuses of cybersecurity, data mining, machine learning and health intelligence. We very enjoy finding novel yet elegant solutions to resolve real-world problems that generate high impacts. Integrating humanity and technology, our long-term goal of research is to advance capabilities and trustworthiness of artificial intelligence (AI) to provide state-of-the-art innovations to secure cyberspace for its users and to improve the health and well-being of people around the world.
- I am currently looking for multiple Ph.D. students and Postdocs doing supervised research or independent study with me in the CSE department at Notre Dame. If you are a well motivated and dedicated student pursuing a Ph.D. degree or postdoc related to the areas of cybersecurity, data mining, machine learning, and health intelligence, please send me an email with your CV.
My Students and Postdocs
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Current Students and Postdocs
Shifu Hou (Postdoc, Summer 2022 -- )
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Machine Learning
Fangtian Zhong (Postdoc, Fall 2022 -- )
Research Area: Mobile Security, System Security, Machine Learning
Yiming Zhang (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2016 -- Fall 2022)
Research Area: Data Mining, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
Yiyue Qian (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2019 -- )
Research Area: Data Mining, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
Hadeel Almaimani (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2019 -- )
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Data Mining
Mingxuan Ju (Ph.D. Student, Summer 2020 -- )
Research Area: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
Qianlong Wen (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2020 -- )
Research Area: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Health Intelligence
Zhongyu Ouyang (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2021 -- )
Research Area: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Health Intelligence
Tianyi Ma (Ph.D. Student, Summer 2022 -- )
Research Area: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
Chia-yi Su (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2022 -- )
Research Area: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Health Intelligence
Shang Ma (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2022 -- )
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Machine Learning
Haoran Chen (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2022 -- )
Co-advisor: Prof. Toby Li
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Human-Computer Interaction
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Graduated Students and Postdocs
Jianfei Zhang (Post-doc, Fall 2019 -- Fall 2020)
Research Area:Data Mining, Machine Learning, Health Intelligence
CIKM 2021 Best Paper Award (Full Paper Track)
Current Employment: Research Associate, University of Sherbrooke, Canada, Summer 2022-.
Previous Employment: Research Associate, University of Alberta, Canada, Spring 2021-Spring 2022.
Yujie Fan (Ph.D., May 2022)
Research Area: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
Ph.D. Dissertation: Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning: Techniques and Applications
Current Employment: Research Scientist, Visa Research, Palo Alto, US, Summer 2022-.
Shifu Hou (Ph.D., June 2022; MS, June 2019)
Research Area: Mobile Security, Data Mining, Machine Learning
SIGKDD 2017 Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award (ADS Track)
Ph.D. Dissertation: AI-driven Techniques for Malware and Malicious Code Detection
MS Thesis: Automatic Detection of Insecure Code Snippets in Stack Overflow
Current Employment: Postdoc, University of Notre Dame, Summer 2022-.
Lingwei Chen (Ph.D., May 2019)
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Machine Learning
IEEE EISIC 2017 Best Paper Award
Ph.D. Dissertation: Enhancing Security of Machine Learning-based Malware Detection at Feature & Model Levels
Current Employment: Assistant Professor (TT), Wright State University, Summer 2021-.
Qian Peng (Master, April 2022)
Research Area: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity
MS Thesis: Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Key Player Identification in Underground Forums
Current Employment: Software Engineer, China Intl. Capital Corp., Beijing, Summer 2022-.
Shiyu Sun (Master, June 2021)
Research Area: Data Mining, Health Intelligence
Current Employment: PhD Student (GRA), George Mason University, Fall 2021-.
Yiming Zhang (Master, December 2018)
Research Area: Data Mining, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
MS Thesis: Using Social Media to Combat Opioid Epidemic
Current Employment: PhD Student (GRA), Case Western Reserve University, Fall 2019-.
Jian Liu (Master, June 2018 )
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Machine Learning
MS Thesis: Automatic Detection of Cybercrime-suspected Threads in Online Underground Forums
Current Employment: PhD Student (GRA), University of South Carolina, Fall 2018-.
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Sai Ram Nellutla (Master, December 2015)
Research Area: Data Mining, Smart Devices MS Thesis: A Safety Support System for Children's Anti-loss Current Employment: Software Engineer, M*Modal, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Madhusudhan Reddy Boddu (MS, March 2017)
Current Employment: MongoDB Developer, Amazon, Silicon Valley |
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Sai Venkata Akhil Thammineni (MS, November 2017)
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Srinivas Garapati (MS, October 2017)
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Utsav Kirtikumar Upadhyay (MS, September 2017)
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Alex Finkelstein (BS, May 2015)
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Dominique Amos (BS, December 2015)
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Joshua Suess (BS, May 2015)
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Kevin Hao (BS, May 2015)
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Michael Hite (BS, May 2015)
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Jacob Sutton (BS, May 2015)
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Sam Wood (BS, May 2015)
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Reem AL Alshikh (BS, May 2015)
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Zainab Alamri (BS, May 2015)
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Former Students
Jianan Zhao (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2020 -- Summer 2022)
Research Area: Data Mining, Machine Learning
Aaron Saas (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2016 -- Summer 2019)
Research Area: Mobile Security, Data Mining
Madhuri Siddula (Ph.D. Student, Spring 2015 - Summer 2016 )
Research Area: Data Mining, Construction Safety
William B. Hardy (MS Student, Spring 2015 - Summer 2017)
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Data Mining
Current Employment: Google