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Contact

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
School of Engineering
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC 20064

314 Pangborn Hall
Phone: (202)319-4765
Email: yangy@cua.edu
Webpage: http://faculty.cua.edu/yangy

Biography

I got my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University (University Park) in August, 2010. I joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the Catholic University of America as an assistant professor in Fall 2010.

Teaching

Instructor, CSC 113: Computer Programming (Fall 2010), Section 4&5
Instructor, CSC 323: Introduction to Computer Networks (Fall 2011, Fall 2012)
Instructor, CSC 524: Secure Programming (Fall 2011, Fall 2012)
Instructor, CSC 526: Network Security (Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
Instructor, CSC 569: Computer Security and Privacy (Spring 2012, Spring 2013)

Professional Activities

TPC member of CollaborateCom 2010, PETSE 2011, CollaborateCom 2011, DASC 2011, COLLA 2012, CollaborateCom 2012, CollaborateCom 2013, International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for High Performance Computing Systems (InterCloud-HPC 2013), COLLA 2013
Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Security (IJS)

Awards

2008, Research Assistant Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (University Park)

Research

Security, privacy, and trust issues in wireless networks, social networks, cloud computing, and smart grid
Network security, system and software security, web and Internet security, hardware security
Networking and network management

Book Chapters

Yi Yang and Sencun Zhu, "Anonymous routing", "Key management", and "Sensor code attestation", in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security (2nd Edition).

Journal Publications

Y. Yang, M. Shao, S.Zhu, G.Cao, Towards Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 9, Issue 4, 2013.
J. Cui, M. Lai, Y. Yang, C. Chen, Application Layer Multicast Streaming Media Live System Based on Scribe, IJACT: International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology, Vol. 4, No. 21, pp. 517-525, 2012.
M.Shao, S.Zhu, W.Zhang, G.Cao, Y.Yang, pDCS: Security and Privacy Support for Data-Centric Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.[Full paper] [Bibtex]
Y.Yang, X.Wang, S.Zhu, and G.Cao, SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks, In ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Volume 11, Issue 4, July 2008.[Full paper] [Bibtex]
Yi Yang and Debao Xiao, "Java Implementation Methods of Mobile Agents in Network Management Systems," Computer Engineering, 2002, 28(10).

Conference Publications

Uthaiwan Srimongkolpitak, Yi Yang, Sensor Source Location Privacy based on Random Perturbations, CollaborateCom 2012.
Vivek Natarajan, Yi Yang, Sencun Zhu, Secure Trust Metadata Management For Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, ICISS 2012.
Vivek Natarajan, Yi Yang, Sencun Zhu, Resource-Misuse Attack Detection in Delay-Tolerant Networks, IPCCC 2011. (acceptance rate 36/129=27.9%)
Hongmei Deng, Yi Yang, Guang Jin, Roger Xu, Weisong Shi, Building a Trust-Aware Dynamic Routing Solution for Wireless Sensor Networks, HeterWMN 2010 together with IEEE Globecom 2010.
Y.Yang, S.Zhu, G.Cao, and T.LaPorta, An Active Global Attack Model for Sensor Source Location Privacy: Analysis and Countermeasures. SecureComm 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 26.3%)[Full paper] [Bibtex]
Yi Yang, Sencun Zhu and Guohong Cao, Improving Sensor Network Immunity under Worm Attacks: a Software Diversity Approach, ACM Mobihoc 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 14.7%, cited by 25) [Full paper] [Bibtex]
Yi Yang, Min Shao, Sencun Zhu, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Guohong Cao, Towards Event Source Unobservability with Minimum Network Traffic in Sensor Networks, ACM WiSec 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 16.7%, cited by 49) [Full paper] [Bibtex]
Min Shao, Yi Yang, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao, Towards Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks, IEEE Infocom 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 20.5%, cited by 49) [Full paper] [Bibtex]
Yi Yang, Xinran Wang, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao, Distributed Software-based Attestation for Node Compromise Detection in Sensor Networks, IEEE SRDS, October 2007. (Acceptance ratio: 15%, cited by 30) [Full paper] [Bibtex]
Yi Yang, Xinran Wang, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao, SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks, ACM Mobihoc'06, May 2006. (Acceptance ratio: 9.8%, cited by 180) [Full paper] [Bibtex]
Yi Yang and Debao Xiao, "Automatic Topology Discovery Algorithm and Heuristics for IP Networks," Proceedings of the 12th Chinese Workshop on Computer Network and Data Communication, Wuhan, China, December 2002.

Talks

"Towards Event Source Unobservability with Minimum Network Traffic in Sensor Networks", ACM WiSec 2008.
"A Framework for Secure Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks", The Second Network Security Workshop in Lehigh University, May 2006.

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