To Perspective Students and Post-docs
- 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 Post-docs 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 post-doc related to the areas of cybersecurity, data mining, machine learning, and health intelligence, please send me an email with your CV.
My Students
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Current Students
Shifu Hou (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2016 -- )
Research Area: Mobile Security, Data Mining, Machine Learning
SIGKDD 2017 Best Paper Award and
SIGKDD 2017 Best Student Paper Award
(Applied Data Science Track)
Aaron Saas (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2016 -- )
Research Area: Mobile Security, Data Mining
Yujie Fan (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2016 -- )
Research Area: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
Yiming Zhang (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2016 -- )
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
Jianan Zhao (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2020 -- )
Research Area: Data Mining, Machine Learning
Zhongyu Ouyang (Ph.D. Student, Fall 2021 -- )
Research Area: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Health Intelligence
Qian Peng (MS Student, Fall 2019 -- )
Research Area: Machine Learning, Cybersecurity
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Post-doc/Graduated Students
Jianfei Zhang (Post-doc, Fall 2019 -- Fall 2020)
Research Area:Data Mining, Machine Learning, Health Intelligence
Current Employment: Research Associate, University of Alberta, Canada, Spring 2021-.
Lingwei Chen (Ph.D., May 2019)
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Machine Learning
IEEE EISIC 2017 Best Paper Award
Dissertation: Enhancing Security of Machine Learning-based Malware Detection at Feature & Model Levels
Current Employment: Assistant Professor (TT), Wright State University, Summer 2021-.
Shiyu Sun (Master, June 2021)
Research Area: Data Mining, Health Intelligence
Current Employment: PhD Student (GRA), George Mason University, Fall 2021-.
Shifu Hou (Master, June 2019)
Research Area: Mobile Security, Data Mining, Machine Learning
Thesis: Automatic Detection of Insecure Code Snippets in Stack Overflow
Yiming Zhang (Master, December 2018)
Research Area: Data Mining, Cybersecurity, Health Intelligence
Thesis: Using Social Media to Combat Opioid Epidemic
Jian Liu (Master, June 2018 )
Research Area: Cybersecurity, Machine Learning
Thesis: Automatic Detection of Cybercrime-suspected Threads in Online Underground Forums
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Sai Ram Nellutla (Master, December 2015)
Research Area: Data Mining, Smart Devices 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
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