Dr. Baijian Yang is currently a Professor of
Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Indiana. He earned his MS in Automation (1998) from the Tsinghua University
Beijing, China, and his PhD in Computer Science (2002) from Michigan State
University East Lansing, USA. Dr. Yang has a diverse skill set in computer and
information technology. He is the lead author of two books on Windows Phone
Programming and he holds a number of industry certifications such as CISSP,
MCSE, and Six Sigma Black Belt. Dr. Yang was a board member of the Association
of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) from 2014–2016. He
was a member of IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative Steering Committee and the
project lead of IEEE Try-CybSI from 2015 to 2017. His recent research interests
are in cybersecurity, cybersecurity education, big data security analysis, SDN,
Internet of things, and cloud computing.