Yifan Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University (TU) since August 2022.
Before joining TU, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer and Information
Sciences from Case Western Reserve University in 2022, his M.S. degree in
Computer Science from Northwestern University in 2015, and his B.S. degree in
Information and Computing Sciences from the Beijing University of Posts and
Telecommunications in 2013. His research interests focus on security and
privacy issues and optimization algorithm designs in intelligent learning
systems with an emphasis on anomaly detection, adversarial training, and robust
federated learning and their applications on the Internet of Things (IoT),
Cyber-physical Systems (CPS), wireless communications and smart health, etc.
His current research goal is to investigate the intercorrelation between
security and practical deep learning systems in two areas: (1) developing
efficient, scalable, and implementable deep learning schemes for security
applications in IoT systems; (2) investigating the vulnerability of practical
deep learning systems, and ultimately, developing robust defense strategies to
address the security and privacy concerns in distributed learning systems.
Dr. Wei Yu is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA. He has been the Ph.D. program director in Information Technology since January 2023. Dr. Wei Yu received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA, in 2008. His research interests include cybersecurity and privacy, cyber-physical systems/Internet of Things, data, and machine learning applications.
