About
Dr. Yuan Hong is a Collins Aerospace Endowed Associate Professor in the School of Computing at University of Connecticut (UConn) and affiliated with the Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC). Prior to joining UConn, he was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Cybersecurity Program Director at Illinois Institute of Technology between 2017 and 2022. He received his Ph.D degree from Rutgers University, M.Sc degree from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and B.Sc degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, respectively. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2021), CCS Distinguished Paper Award (2024), CCS Top Reviewer Award (2025), USENIX Security Notable Reviewer Award (2025), and multiple Cisco Research Awards, and was also recognized as the finalist of the Meta Research Award (2021). He also received a National Physics Olympiad Prize in China. His research spans Security, Privacy, and Trustworthy Machine Learning, with a focus on differential privacy, secure computation, applied cryptography, adversarially robust learning in the context of computer vision, (large) language models, and cyber-physical systems (CPS). His research has been published in top conferences across Security, Databases, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and NLP, such as S&P, CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, CSF, PETS, SIGMOD, VLDB, NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, EMNLP, KDD, and AAAI, as well as top journals (e.g., ACM Computing Surveys, multiple IEEE/ACM Transactions, and TR_C). He is a Senior Member of the ACM and IEEE.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Access control in e-health portal systems
Year: 2007
Citations: 16
Venue: 2007 Innovations in Information Technologies (IIT)
Latest Recorded Paper
Transferability in data poisoning attacks on spatiotemporal traffic forecasting models
Year: 2026
Citations: 5
Venue: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 183
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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